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Deepen cultural exchanges and promote mutual understanding, kinship, and integration

2024-02-05   

China and ASEAN countries are connected by mountains and rivers, with cultural and cultural exchanges and a long history of friendly exchanges. On February 2, 2024, the opening ceremony of the China ASEAN Cultural Exchange Year was held. Taking the "China ASEAN Cultural Exchange Year" as an opportunity, China and ASEAN countries will carry out rich and diverse cultural exchange activities, promoting people from both sides to get closer and closer, and working together to build a common home of peace, tranquility, prosperity, beauty, and friendship. Cultural exchange is a never-ending spiritual bond between China and ASEAN countries. It spans the long river of history and has laid a profound foundation for China and ASEAN to face the future and move towards each other. Since 2014, China and ASEAN have jointly held events such as the Cultural Exchange Year, Education Exchange Year, Tourism Cooperation Year, New Year's Eve, and Media Exchange Year, forming 225 pairs of friendly cities. Personnel exchanges between the two sides increased from 18.2 million in 2013 to 65 million before the COVID-19 epidemic, with nearly 4500 flights per week. "Deepen people to people and cultural exchanges and cooperation, continue traditional friendship, consolidate the social foundation and public opinion foundation of China Laos friendship, and promote closer and better relations between China and Laos." In October 2023, the Action Plan of the CPC and the Lao People's Revolutionary Party on Building a Community of China Laos Destiny Movement (2024-2028) signed in Beijing listed people to people friendship as one of the five major areas of the new five-year action plan, injecting new vitality into the building of a community of common destiny between China and Laos. "Both sides will continue to maintain close cultural and personnel exchanges, increase tourism routes, strengthen local cooperation, strengthen cooperation and exchange in studying abroad and talent training, promote more exchanges and visits between the two countries' civil and religious groups, continuously enhance mutual understanding and kinship between the two peoples, and consolidate the public opinion foundation of generations of friendship between the two countries." The "Joint Statement of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Indonesia on Deepening Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation" signed in October 2023 made clear plans for the two sides to continue close cultural and personnel exchanges. On January 28th, the General Assembly Building of the Chinese Great Hall in Malaysia. The opening ceremony of the "Malaysia China Friendship Night" and the 2024 Malaysia China Youth Art Festival was successfully held. Youth art groups from China and Malaysia performed together on stage, with over 1000 audience members applauding warmly. "The piano performance of Chinese performers is amazing!" Majid, President of the Malaysia China Friendship Association, told our reporter. In recent days, more than 100 teenagers from China have been visiting Malaysia, visiting local campuses to exchange ideas with peers and visiting chicken farms in the historic district of Malacca

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