Vietnam-China Youth Festival promotes friendship
Nguyen Manh Dung, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union
Central Committee, said at a press briefing in Hanoi on November 20
that the event is a pragmatic activity that helps cultivate the
friendship, mutual understanding and trust between the two countries’
young people, contributing to enhancing the comprehensive strategic
cooperative partnership between the neighbours.
A total of
5,900 young Chinese people from 31 cities, provinces and autonomous
regions across China are expected to join their Vietnamese peers at
the festival, he said
Following the festival’s opening
ceremony at Dongxing border gate, major activities will take place in
the eight cities of Liuzhou , Beihai, Qinzhou, Guigang, Yulin,
Fangchenggang, Chongzuo and Nanning , he added.
According
to Dung, the Vietnamese representatives will be divided into seven
groups who will scatter to seven Chinese cities to attend the
activities, which include visits to several historical sites associated
with the Vietnamese revolution and President Ho Chi Minh, a seminar on
industrial development, field trips to several Chinese factories and
agencies, and cultural, sports and environmental protection events.
They will then gather in Nanning city for the main part of the
festival with participation from the two countries’ Party and State
leaders.-VNA