China News Service, Guangzhou, August 8th (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) To create and enjoy the 2022 "Gen Z" youth culture maker camp in the Greater Bay Area, the opening ceremony was held in Guangzhou on August 8th.
More than 30 Chinese youth representatives from more than 20 national key universities, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, and Tianjin University, joined hands with 20 international students from 16 countries to start a one-week Lingnan cultural tour.
Zheng Zhigang, the initiator of the project and chairman of the China Youth Elite Foundation, expressed the hope that through this event, he hopes to stimulate the innovation and creativity of "Gen Z", cultivate strategic vision, empower young people, and help young people around the world to tell Chinese stories and world stories together.
In the upcoming schedule, more than 50 Chinese and foreign youth representatives will build their understanding of the Greater Bay Area and Lingnan culture through guest lectures, exchange seminars, innovation workshops, etc. The three themes of humanities, science and technology, and ecology are divided into groups for immersive inspections, and finally, in the form of creative videos and youth reports, Generation Z's thinking on the future development of the Greater Bay Area and the world in the new era is presented.
The opening ceremony of the 2022 "Generation Z" Youth Cultural Maker Camp in the Greater Bay Area was held in Guangzhou.
Photo by Baiyingshi
At the opening ceremony, Liang Junda, Chairman of Guangdong Youth Federation, introduced Guangdong's economy, culture and youth development.
He said that young people are full of vigor and vitality, and they are the future of the development of the motherland and the world.
As the forefront of China's reform and opening up, Guangdong vigorously promotes friendly exchanges between Chinese and foreign youth, and promotes Chinese and foreign youth to join hands to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Chen Peng, deputy director of the China International Youth Exchange Center, said that he hoped that young people at home and abroad will understand and experience the Greater Bay Area in the fields of humanities, science and technology, ecology and other fields, while strengthening the exchange and collision of multiculturalism, and further experience and explore the youth value of the Greater Bay Area. and youth opportunities.
The representatives of the tutors of this event, assistant professors and doctoral tutors of Tsinghua University, Dutch architects and Ma Ding said that the youth representatives from various countries have different cultural and professional backgrounds, and they are all young. Through this exchange, everyone can explore together. , imagine the future, create the future.
The event invited dim sum masters from Guangzhou restaurants to teach on-site and teach Cantonese tea drinking culture.
Young people from home and abroad make classic Cantonese dim sum such as shrimp dumplings and siu mai together, and taste the inheritance of Cantonese cuisine of "the first restaurant in Guangzhou"; at K11 in Guangzhou, experience the art creation workshop and feel the charm of avant-garde art.
At the same time, they will visit the South China National Botanical Garden as the first group of Chinese and foreign youth representatives.
Afterwards, they will also visit Chow Tai Fook Shunde Craftsmanship Center and Jewelry Culture Center, visit the Bay Area Youth Entrepreneurship Base, Digital Innovation Center and Artificial Intelligence Enterprises, and investigate Haizhu Wetland, Country Garden Headquarters and other places.
Liang Yanting, a young Hong Kong student who graduated from the School of Government Management of Peking University, is 26 years old.
She is a participant of the "Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Program" in Hong Kong, and is currently the senior manager of Tencent Youth Development Committee, dedicated to youth development and public welfare work.
She said, "The charm of the Greater Bay Area lies in the fact that young people actively give back to the society when they strive to develop their personal careers and pursue their dreams, and integrate their personal 'small dreams' into the 'big dreams' of the development of the Bay Area, the country and even the world. "
SYLVADOR BAZIRIHE, a young man from Rwanda, said in an interview: "My Chinese name is Ai Xiao, and the moment I stepped into Guangzhou, I felt that the local culture here is very strong, and everyone speaks Cantonese and feels very cordial. "(Finish)