YOUTH FRIENDSHIP EXCHANGE GROUP BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN

On September 16, Shanxi University welcomed a team of over 30 members from the 31st Youth Friendship Exchange Group between China and Japan. During one day s visit and exchange, Japanese college students, together with over 40 student representatives from different schools and departments of our university, had developed colorful exchange activities. With the group also came Gao Jian, deputy secretary of Youth League Committee of Shanxi Province and Chairman of Shanxi Youth Federation, and Zhao Ling, deputy director of the first division of International Liaison Office of Youth League Central Committee and vice minister of the International Department of All-China Youth League. Leaders of Youth League Committee of our university and other leaders from the related sections accompanied the group during the visit.

Deputy Secretary of Party Committee of our university Li Zhongren gave the Youth Friendship Exchange Group a hospitable reception and extended a warm welcome to them. He said that the friendship between China and Japan had a long history, in which the friendly communication between the youth of the two countries especially played an important role. Japanese colleges and universities are the closest friends of our foreign exchange. Every year, some undergraduates, postgraduates and teachers of our university are sent to Tokyo International University, Yokohama National University, Kokushikan University and Rikkyo University to vist and study. Li Zhongren hoped that the youth of China and Japan would strengthen their communication, promote their understanding, form their friendship and make themselves the messengers of the friendship between China and Japan.

On the morning of that day, the group members first had a discussion with student representatives of our university at the conference room on the 9th floor of the Arts Building on the following four topics: environment, volunteer service, educational system and the friendly exchange of the youth between China and Japan. During the discussion, they came to know their mutual interests and reached an agreement that the youth of the two countries should make common efforts to protect the environment of the earth, to make volunteer service a lifestyle of college students, to inherit the education of morals and decencies and to spread the seeds of the friendship between China and Japan by forming friendships among the youth of the two countries.