22 Pekin, China

### Returning

🇩🇿 Algeria, 🇨🇾 Cyprus, 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇮🇳 India, 🇮🇷 Iran, 🇽🇰 Kosovo, 🇲🇹 Malta, 🇳🇬 Nigeria, 🇵🇭 Philippines, 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, 🇹🇭 Thailand, 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

### Withdrawing

🇦🇲 Armenia, 🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇨🇱 Chile, 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇪🇨 Ecuador, 🇪🇬 Egypt, 🇬🇭 Ghana, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇲🇷 Mauritania, 🇵🇪 Peru, 🇲🇫 Saint Martin, 🇸🇲 San Marino, 🇸🇽 Sint Maarten, 🇸🇮 Slovenia, 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan, 🇺🇾 Uruguay, 🇻🇪 Venezuela

## Voting

### System

Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs

### Winner

🇺🇸 Colton Dixon - Miracles

**Fabulous Song Contest 22**, often referred to as **FSC #22**, was the 22nd edition of Fabulous Song Contest, held in Pekin, China. 66 countries participated in the 22nd contest. Colton Dixon from 🇺🇸 United States won the contest with the song "Miracles" receiving a total of 228 points.

### HOST CITY

**Beijing** alternatively romanized as **Peking**, is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 million residents within an administrative area of 16,410.5 km2 (6336 sq. mi.). It is located in Northern China, and is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the State Council with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji megalopolis and the national capital region of China.

### BROADCASTER

**China Central Television** (**CCTV**) is a Chinese state-controlled broadcaster. CCTV has a network of 50 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers in six different languages. Most of its programmes are a mixture of news, documentary, social education, comedy, entertainment, and drama, the majority of which consists of Chinese soap operas and entertainment. However, news reporting about topics which are sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is distorted and often used as a weapon against the party's perceived enemies.

### VENUE

The **Wukesong Arena**, also known as the **Cadillac Center** for sponsorship purposes, is a multipurpose indoor arena in Beijing. It was originally built for the 2008 Summer Olympics basketball preliminaries and finals. Ground was broken on 29 March 2005 and construction was completed on 11 January 2008. The stadium has a capacity of 19,000 and covers an area of 63,000 square metres. It includes a modern, flexible ice hockey rink designed and produced by Finnish rink manufacturer Vepe Oy in November 2016.

### PRESENTERS

**Yang Zi** was born 6 November 1992, birth name **Yang Niao**, also known as **Andy Yang**, is a Chinese actress, singer and model. She graduated from the Performance Institute of Beijing Film Academy(BFA) in 2014. In 2016, Yang was chosen by Southern Metropolis Daily as one of the Four Dan Actresses of the post-90s Generation. Yang is noted for her roles in *Home with Kids* (2005), *Battle of Changsha* (2014), *Ode to Joy* (2016), *Noble Aspirations* (2016), *Ode to Joy 2* (2017), *Ashes of Love* (2018), *Go Go Squid!* (2019). Yang ranked 73rd on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2017, 24th in 2019 and 13th in 2020.

**Jackson Wang** was born 28 March 1994. He is a Hong Kong rapper, singer and dancer based in China. He is the founder of record label Team Wang, and is the creative director and lead designer for fashion brand Team Wang Design. He is active in mainland China as a solo artist and television host. He is a member of the South Korean boy group Got7. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Wang was a sabre fencer for Hong Kong's fencing team. He was ranked eleventh in the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, and won first place at the Asian Junior and Cadet Fencing Championships in 2011. After passing a music audition, he moved to Seoul, South Korea in July 2011 to pursue a career in K-pop. In January 2014, after over two years of training, Wang debuted as a member of Got7 with the single "Girls Girls Girls".