亚太大专华语辩论公开赛是南洋理工大学中文学会的常年活动之一，它的前身为“新马大专华语辩论赛”。2004年，筹委会正式将此赛事拓展至亚太地区。亚太区大专学府的优秀辩论队伍都参与了首届的亚太大专华语辩论公开赛。

拥有了筹办第一届亚太辩的经验后，第二届亚太大专华语辩论公开赛也成功于2006年在新加坡南洋理工大学举办。这项比赛再次吸引了来自亚太区各个国家的优秀辩论队伍前来参与，更获得观众的热烈反应。此外，来自台湾的中华辩论人交流协会也于2007年成功在台湾轮办第三届的亚太辩。之后三届的亚太辩则再次在南洋理工大学举办，成功吸引了16支强队前来共襄盛举，而筹委会也将整个赛事带向新的层次。

累积了多届的筹办经验后，本届筹委会决定于2015年在南洋理工大学举办第七届亚太大专华语辩论公开赛，并将比赛规模从原本的16支参赛队伍增加至24支。除此之外，作为华语辩论界里最具影响力的赛事之一，为了提高比赛的水准，筹委会也将本届的赛制进行了大幅度的改进。相信这规模扩张势必为本届赛事带来更精彩刺激的龙争虎斗。

• 提升亚太区大专学府的华语辩论风气
• 发掘优秀的华语辩论人才
• 引发参赛者和观赛者对时事及社会动态的思考及评论
• 提高华语在国际舞台上的普及和应用
• 促进亚太区大专辩论队之间的友好关系

The tournament was formerly known as the Intervarsity Chinese Debate Tournament, Singapore-Malaysia Open. It was organized by the NTU Chinese Society, and was successfully held in year 2001 and year 2002.

In year 2004, the organizing committee decided to expand the scale of the tournament to Asia Pacific region. The 1^st Intervarsity Chinese Debate Tournament, Asia-Pacific Open was therefore held in year 2004.

In year 2006, NTU Chinese Society successfully held the 2^nd Intervarsity Chinese Debate Tournament. Following the success of the 2^nd tournament, a group of Taiwan enthusiasts was interested in organizing the 3^rd tournament and had it successfully held in July 2007.

In 2013, we received huge number of applications to participate in The 6^th Intervarsity Chinese Debate Tournament, Asia-Pacific Open 2013. The 6^th tournament turned out to be a great success and was interviewed by local media. The organizing committee has received overwhelming responses from many tertiary institutions. Besides that, the tournament is also rated as the Top 4 International Chinese Debate Tournament by netizens around the world.

With a lot of past experiences and supports, we are inspired and have thus decided to make a step further by increasing the number of participating teams to 24 teams in the 7^th tournament. This is in response to the overwhelming number of universities signing up for this tournament and the positive feedbacks from sponsors and media. We believe that the advancement of The 7th Asia-Pacific Intervarsity Chinese Debate Tournament (2015) will make this event even more interesting and more important in the stage of Chinese debate.

• To increase public awareness and interest to Chinese debate
• To cultivate Chinese debating talent
• To enhance critical thinking and discussions of public issues
• To encourage the speaking of Mandarin
• To foster relationship among Chinese debating teams