Ahead of the Dragon Boat Festival, more than 230 students from leading Chinese universities — including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nankai University, and Tianjin University — competed in a dragon boat race on the Haihe River in Tianjin's Nankai district on Sunday.

Organizers said the event was designed not only to celebrate the traditional festival, but also to promote exchanges among young talent from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and encourage the inheritance of traditional Chinese culture.