American school students leave for exchange in China – Dainik Savera Times

An exchange group of middle school students from Washington state in the US left San Francisco on March 16 for an 11-day visit to China. This exchange program has been organized by the “US-China Youth Student Exchange Association”.

In November 2023, at the joint welcome banquet of American friendship groups held in San Francisco, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced in his speech that China will invite 50 thousand American teenagers to come to China for exchange and study in the next five years. Ready to do.

The 24 students in the exchange group are from Lincoln Middle School and Steilacoom Middle School in Tacoma, Washington, according to Cho Shuchi, co-chair of the US-China Youth Student Exchange Association. American middle school students will visit Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanchen, Wutang Mountain in Hubei and other places, as well as several colleges and universities to have in-depth exchanges with Chinese teenagers.

Song Quoxuan, Acting Consul General of the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco, said at the farewell ceremony at the airport that he hopes American teenagers will actively participate in various activities with an open mind after arriving in China, experiencing Chinese culture first-hand, Will make Chinese friends and realize a true, three-dimensional and comprehensive China.

Steilakum City Mayor Richard Murry, who visited China with the students, said that the people of the two countries should deepen mutual understanding through mutual exchanges. He encouraged the students to make full use of this rare opportunity to experience and understand China first-hand.

(Courtesy- China Media Group, Beijing)