A youth delegation from Japan's Iwate Prefecture visited Yunnan to experience "there is a life called Yunnan"

Original Asian and African Affairs Department Yunnan Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries 2023-10-24 22:52 Published onYunnan

At the invitation of the Yunnan Provincial People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, an 11-member youth delegation from Japan's Iwate Prefecture visited Yunnan from October 17 to October 24, 2023.The Provincial Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries has arranged exchanges and inspection activities with rich content and various forms, allowing young people in Iwate Prefecture to experience "there is a life called Yunnan" in perceiving Yunnan.

On October 23, Wang Yu, full-time vice president of the Provincial Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Li Jianlin, deputy director of the Provincial Related Work Committee, and Wang Haoming, deputy secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, attended the Yunnan Province and Iwate County Youth Friendly Exchange and Social Meeting in Kunming.Wang Yu warmly welcomed the Iwate Prefecture youth delegation’s visit to Yunnan.She said that since the establishment of friendly exchange and cooperation relations between Yunnan and Iwate, they have jointly created institutional cooperation projects such as youth exchanges, agricultural seminars and teacher exchange visits.China and Japan are close neighbors separated by a strip of water. The future of friendship between the two peoples lies in the youth. I believe that the one-week experience in "Colorful Yunnan" allowed the Japanese students to make new friends and leave them with different "Impressions of Yunnan". Please After returning home, the students told their relatives and friends what they saw and heard in China, making positive contributions to creating a better future for bilateral relations.Yu Matsumoto, vice principal of Morioka Higashi Support School in Iwate Prefecture, thanked the Yunnan Provincial People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries for its thoughtful arrangements. He believed that this visit will further deepen the friendship between Iwate Prefecture and Yunnan Province. The young friends who participated in the event will also become Iwate and Yunnan Province. A young envoy of friendly exchanges and cooperation in Yunnan.

Wang Yu, Li Jianlin, and Wang Haoming jointly issued commemorative certificates to the Chinese and Japanese student representatives.

On October 18, Qu Congwen, member of the Standing Committee of the Kunming Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor, met with a youth delegation from Iwate Prefecture, Japan, at the Kunming Fujisawa Friendship Hall.

During their visit to Yunnan, teenagers from Iwate County stayed at eight Kunming families to experience the authentic Kunming life. They took English, physical education and music classes with students from Kunming Runcheng School, experienced traditional Chinese culture such as intangible cultural heritage, and visited stone forest geology. Park, and went to Xishuangbanna to take Japanese classes with students from Xishuangbanna Prefecture National Middle School, talk about the beauty of their hometown, and carry out a variety of exchange and social activities.Chinese and Japanese teenagers expressed that the cultures of China and Japan have both similarities and differences. Through this event, they can get to know each other, appreciate each other's "similarities", and respect each other's "differences." Harmony without difference can deepen understanding and enhance friendship.Before leaving, the Iwate children sincerely expressed that they would study harder and further study in Yunnan to continue to experience "there is a life called Yunnan".This event sowed the seeds of friendship between teenagers in Yunnan and Iwate. The warm trip to Yunnan fully displayed the amiable, lovely and respectable image of China, and achieved the expected purpose of enhancing mutual understanding, deepening friendship, and promoting exchanges between Yunnan and Iwate. .