Formal. According to the query on the Peninsula News client, on October 2, 2021, as an important section of the "2021 Qingdao International Fashion Season", it was co-sponsored by the Qingdao Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the German Mendelssohn Piano Company. The Asia-Pacific Regional Finals Awards Ceremony and Concert of the "2021 Ninth Mendelssohn Piano Competition" hosted by the Musicians Association was grandly held at the Phoenix Sound Theater on the West Coast. Wei Shengji, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Qingdao Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Professor Wang Jingyi, Chairman of the Qingdao Music Association and Dean of the School of Music of Qingdao University, Zheng Mingtong, Asia President of the German Mendelssohn Piano Company, and Professor Jin Xuedong, former Vice President of the Tianjin Conservatory of Music, attended the award ceremony. This is the only international piano competition sponsored by the government in Qingdao.