What's the difference between "Top Ten Outstanding Youth" and "May 4th Youth Medal"?

The "Top Ten Outstanding Youth" and the "May 4th Youth Medal" are all aimed at implementing the spirit of the central committee's resolution on strengthening the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, further intensifying the efforts to establish and publicize advanced models of contemporary youth, and forming an atmosphere of advocating and learning advanced among the vast number of young people. We will continue to discover, publicize and commend outstanding talents, strive to create a good social atmosphere of advocating and pursuing Excellence, and make active efforts to cultivate a cross-century army of young talents and realize the all-round rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Young people who feel excellent personally have higher gold content.

The purpose of the "Top Ten Outstanding Youth in China" selection activity is to discover young talents, set an example of the times and publicize the spirit of "outstanding youth". He successfully revealed the growth track of contemporary youth and fully demonstrated the struggle process of outstanding young people to realize their personal values in the process of fighting for the common ideal of the whole nation. The plump images of the "Top Ten" young people with distinctive characteristics of the times and their growing experience of hard struggle and pursuit of Excellence have greatly inspired the enthusiasm of the vast number of young people to be down-to-earth, determined to innovate, determined to become talents and forge ahead.

The May 4th Medal of Chinese Youth is the highest honor awarded by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and all-china youth federation to the youth in China. In principle, it is awarded every May 4th Youth Day, and those who have made special contributions can be awarded at any time. Since 2007, the "Chinese Youth May 4th Medal Model" has been awarded, mainly to advanced young people who have made outstanding achievements and significant contributions in socialist modernization, and the number of people commended each year is about 10; The "May 4th Medal for Chinese Youth" series awards are the highest honors awarded by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and all-china youth federation to young people and youth collectives. The "Chinese Youth May 4th Medal Collective" is awarded irregularly, mainly to advanced collectives with outstanding deeds, wide social influence, strong typical demonstration role and young people as the main members in socialist modernization.