September 2004, Bilingual Times P23 -- "UEL Cup" - CAIEP National College Students Spoken English Contest concluded with great success on July 17. 25 finalists were selected from close to 2,000 initial participants to compete in the final round of the "UEL Cup" held in

"UEL Cup" - CAIEP National College Students Spoken English Contest concluded with great success on July 17. 25 finalists were selected from close to 2,000 initial participants to compete in the final round of the "UEL Cup" held in Tsinghua University - Meng Ming Wei building. Huang Xun of Beijing University and Li Si Zhe of Beijing Broadcasting University took the first prizes for non-English and English majors respectively. To enhance objectivity and reliability of the contest, organisers used a testing system called PhonePass SET to evaluate each contestant's English ability in fluency, grammar and pronunciation. Judges included professors Liu Run Qing ( Beijing Foreign Languages University ), Dong Qi Ming ( Beijing Capital Normal University ), Liu Shi Sheng ( Tsinghua University ) and Luo Shi Sheng (Tsinghua Humanities Institute), who regarded PhonePass SET highly as an assessment tool for both institutions and enterprises.