Online writing contest returns to popular acclaim

The 4th Rongshu Xia Original Internet Literature Contest kicked off on Jan 4, after a gap of nine years, to the same enthusiasm that it triggered in 1999, 2000 and 2001.

Established in 1997, www.rongshuxia.com quickly grew into a leading website for online reading and writing and gave birth to such writers as Anne Baby and Ning Caishen, known, respectively, for the novel Farewell Viva and the TV script, My Own Swordsman.

But after 2001, the website ran into financial problems. It has now passed into new hands and they have revived the popular contest.