At the invitation of CPAFFC, the R.O.Korea-China Young Friendship Ambassadors Delegation, led by H.E.Mr.Shin Jungseung, Former Ambassador of R.O.Korea to China, paid a visit to China from July 9th to 17th , 2012. The 120-people delegation was composed by Korean students from nearly 50 universities or middle schools. The visit was full of success and furit,as the delegation not only went to Beijing, Hebei and Henan province for a tour of China’s history and culture, but made close contacts and communications with the Chinese young people.
Group picture at the Juyongguan Pass of Great Wall,Beijing
During their stay in Beijing, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun met the delegation. He stressed that as this year marked the 20th Anniversary of the China-R.O.Korea diplomatic relations as well as the Year of China-R.O.Korea Friendly Exchanges, this visit was of importance for its meaning. Mr. Zhang also quoted that the relation of two countries is based on the affections of their two peoples. The young people is the hope and future of the country, shouldering the great responsibility to further developing the China-R.O.Korea relations. The baton of the China-R.O.Korea friendship cause should be handed from generation to generation.
Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun met the delegation
Mr. Feng Zuoku, Vice President of CPAFFC together with Mr. Wu Tao, Advisor to CPAFFC and Mr.Wang Yunze, VP of China-R.O.Korea Friendship Association, who once led the Chinese Young Ambassadors delegation to visit the Korea, attended the welcome dinner. Ms. Jia Yuying, Vice Mayor of Chende, Hebei province and Mr. Xu Jichao, Vice Governor of Henan province hosted the main delegates respectively.
Mr. Feng Zuoku, Vice President of CPAFFC made a speech on the welcome dinner
Mr. Xu Jichao(1 from right), Vice Governor of Henan province met Mr.Shin Jungseung, Head of the delegation
Mr. Shin Jungseung said that to expand the exchanges between the young people of China and Korea is not only to meet the consensus of the two Presidents, but should be a long-term work to insist on. Seeing is believing, he also hoped that more young friends from Korea should come to visit China and feel its changes.
Chinese volunteer worked as a tour guide for the Korean students(at Forbidden City)
Visit in the Shaolin Temple
During the visit, the young delegates from Korea were all impressed by the deep and broad Chinese culture. A senior student Yoon Youkyoung from Gyeongsang University said that he used to consider China as a backward and closing nation, and some girl students he knows are even afraid to go to China as they worried about the safety there. This visit made her a total change to the image of China and she believed that if more Korean people came to visit China, they would all like this country.
vigorous Korean students
Learning the Shaolin Kongfu at Tagou Martial Arts School
Learning the Paper-Cutting at the Zhengzhou Tourism College
The China-R.O.Korea Youth Exchange Program was jointly initiated by CPAFFC and Korean Foundation from 2009, in the aim of implementing the consensus of the two countries’ Presidents. By now ,there has been 1500 students participated the program from the two countries.
