Huo Qiwen, a member of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative
Ye Xinghua, member of the CppcC Committee of Nanhai District, Foshan City
Chinese diving team member Olympic champion Chen Aisen
Well-known writer Cai Chongda
At present, the world has undergone major changes unprecedented in a century, and China is also at a critical moment in realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Chinese young people in the new era are not only participants and builders of national development, but also a new force to promote Chinese cultural innovation and civilization inheritance and carry out dialogue between Eastern and Western civilizations. At the first forum of "Reading China", outstanding youth representatives from all walks of life interpreted Chinese civilization with the thinking of young people, looked forward to China's future with young people's ideals, and showed the world a true, three-dimensional and comprehensive China, so that the world could better understand China.
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Willing to open up more channels to help Hong Kong young people "read China"
"According to one data, 70% of Hong Kong's youth have never been to the mainland." Recently, Huo Qiwen, member of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Guangzhou Youth Federation and vice president of Fok Ying Tung Group, appeared at the china and conference venue, saying that he had come to Guangzhou in 2009 and was very familiar with Guangzhou, hoping to encourage young people in Hong Kong to learn more about the situation in the mainland and seize the opportunities in the Greater Bay Area through his practical experience. At the "two sessions" in Guangzhou in 2021, he focused on youth exchanges between Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and suggested that Guangzhou vocational colleges and universities expand the enrollment of Hong Kong students, provide more internships and employment opportunities for Hong Kong youth, and further strengthen the publicity of hong Kong and Macao youth innovation and entrepreneurship policies. During this period, he actively participated in a number of youth work, hoping to further promote youth exchanges between the two places.
In fact, at the beginning, Huo Qiwen came to Guangzhou as an entrepreneur. "I've always wanted to be like my grandfather Fok Ying-tung and start my own business." Previously, he had been trying to start a business in Guangzhou and then returned to the family business, but he had always been very concerned about the affairs related to entrepreneurship in the Hong Kong and Macao Youth Bay Area.
Huo Qiwen told Nandu reporters that every year he will provide Opportunities for Hong Kong students such as exchange internships through associations and other organizations, not only that, but also organize enterprises to provide employment opportunities for Hong Kong youth. He also revealed that he wanted to organize a study tour, but gave up because of the epidemic. Fok believes that allowing Hong Kong youth to understand the mainland from secondary school will be able to better plan the future development direction.
As a guest of honor to read China's first event, Huo Qiwen suggested further doing a good job in expanding foreign publicity, "In Hong Kong, many local young people may not be able to get information about such activities, and I hope that in the future, we can better open up publicity channels in Hong Kong." In his view, telling The Chinese story well can enable more Hong Kong people to "read China.".
Q&A Nandu
Nandu: At the "two sessions" in Guangzhou, you focused on the youth exchanges between Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and today's activities are also related to young people.
Huo Qiwen: I hope that Hong Kong youth will seize the opportunity of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, we have counted before that 70% of Hong Kong youth have not come to the mainland, and they do not know much about the young people in the mainland.
Nandu: Will you provide more opportunities for Hong Kong youth to come to the Mainland for development?
Huo Qiwen: Yes. We organize internships every year, and if there is no epidemic, we also want to do some study tour courses so that young people can understand the development of the mainland from middle school and better deploy the future development direction.
Nandu: Does your company currently provide employment opportunities for young people in Hong Kong?
Fok Kai Man: This part is not available for the time being, but we will organize enterprises to provide jobs for young people in Hong Kong.
Nandu: This is also the third time that this event has been held in Guangzhou, and you have also lived in Guangzhou for many years, how do you think you can tell the story of China from Guangzhou?
Huo Qiwen: We must do more publicity. Many local young people in Hong Kong may not have access to such information, and it is necessary to open up publicity channels in Hong Kong.
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The Bay Area Super Connector sows the seeds of beauty for the youth of Hong Kong and Macau
"I hope that this small move will sow beautiful seeds for Hong Kong secondary school students and encourage more Hong Kong youth to develop in the Greater Bay Area." On the morning of December 1st, at the theme forum of "New Era, New Youth, New Responsibility", Ye Xinghua, member of the CPPCC Committee of Nanhai District of Foshan City, co-founder and CEO of ICC Space, told his story as a super contact person for Hong Kong and Macao youth in the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao and overseas.
From being almost fired to a super contact in the Bay Area
Born into an ordinary Hong Kong family, Ip Hing Wah attended Wing Lung Secondary School of the Hong Kong Baptist Association in secondary school and was admitted to Jinan University after graduation. After graduating from university, Ip chose to return to Hong Kong. At the time of the financial turmoil, he majored in advertising as an online advertising salesman, under great pressure. "The 3-month trial period almost failed, and the trial period needed to be extended. Tried sitting in a client's office for 8 hours in order to sign an order..."
In the face of various pressures, Ye Xinghua spent a year from almost being hyped to the annual TOP SALES, "Now that I look back, I am very grateful to be able to engage in sales work, it made me not afraid of failure, but also learned one of the most useful skills - sales skills." ”
4 years after graduating from undergraduate, Ye Xinghua came up with the idea of entrepreneurship, optimistic about the Internet market, when the two-dimensional code was just starting, Ye Xinghua founded Hong Kong's first two-dimensional code creative design company, rented a small office in a factory area in Hong Kong, and took the first step in entrepreneurship. However, at that time, the popularity of the scanning code App in Hong Kong was not high, the first income was only 15 yuan coins, and the high rent and labor costs instantly became the biggest problem encountered by Ye Xinghua after starting a business.
There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and just when he is confused, a friend who has known Ye Xinghua for nearly 20 years threw an "olive branch" to Ye Xinghua and invited him to come to the mainland to start a business and do angel investment in Shenzhen. "At that time, I felt that I had been insisting on starting a business in Hong Kong for three years, there were very few customers, everyone didn't know what the QR code could do, thinking that if I wanted to try it, anyway, there was nothing to lose, and the distance in Shenzhen was also very close", so I embarked on the mainland entrepreneurship road with my bag. Ye Xinghua still remembers that at that time, Shenzhen Qianhai was already a hot land of "double creation". His entrepreneurial enthusiasm was rekindled, and it was here that he ushered in a major turning point in his life. "After a year of starting a business in Shenzhen, Hong Kong held the International Maker Festival, and the organizers invited me to go back to serve as the vice chairman, hoping that I would bring the mainland's venture capital sources back to Hong Kong and help Hong Kong youth to innovate and start a business." Ye Xinghua still can't forget the feeling of standing on the rostrum, "I can share it with so many representatives of Hong Kong's industry and some figures in the political and business circles." At that time, I suddenly felt like I was going around in a circle. "After returning to the mainland, Ip Hing Wah found that there are many opportunities and resources in the mainland, so it is better to create a platform to help the entrepreneurial youth of Hong Kong and Macao." With the original intention, Ye Xinghua found angel investor Qiu Dagen and established Gonghe Space in Foshan, and in 2019, zhongshan Gonghe Space was established.
It is understood that since its inception, ICC Space has held a number of major activities in the field of science and technology innovation in the Greater Bay Area, especially in The Two Places of Foshan and Hong Kong, received more than 300 batches of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Double Creation Delegations, and accumulated more than 100 incubation entrepreneurial teams, of which 68.5% were Hong Kong and Macao teams. And was awarded the "Guangdong-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base". At the same time, it has won the qualifications of Guangdong Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Science and Technology Enterprise Incubator, the first batch of Southern Guangdong Overseas Chinese Innovation Base, the Greater Bay Area Youth Home, and the officially recognized accelerator of Hong Kong Cyberport.
ICC Space is UC Berkeley SkyDeck's first global innovation partner. Ye Xinghua said that IUC Space has become an important unit to promote and deepen the exchange and cooperation of young people in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Principals of Secondary Schools in Hong Kong are invited to visit
To enable secondary school students to better understand the Mainland
Ip Hing Wah has positioned himself as a super liaison for Young People from Hong Kong and Macau in the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau and overseas. In the past few years, in addition to actively linking resources for Hong Kong and Macao youth, he has also used his own diversified ways to tell different Bay Area stories and Chinese stories to Hong Kong and Macao youth. Whether it is Hong Kong TVB, or Facebook and other social media platforms, "I share my life in the mainland, my work experience, to my friends around me, in this most authentic way, let Hong Kong youth see China, look at Chinese youth, and see the development of the Greater Bay Area through my perspective." Let more Hong Kong youth seize the opportunities of China's development, and let more Hong Kong youth become promising new youth. ”
Connecting young people in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao through cultural and sports activities and sports competitions, through common hobbies, increasing youth dialogue and exchange, enhancing the sense of cultural identity, and improving cohesion and centripetal force. By providing an internship platform, we will cultivate local students and Hong Kong and Macao students. Through the "Talent Training", students' understanding of the integration of Hong Kong, Macao and the Mainland is enhanced, and students are promoted to have a deeper understanding of the overall development of Hong Kong and Macao.
In addition, by inviting Hong Kong secondary school principals to visit the mainland and introduce local development opportunities and policy advantages, "I hope that this small move can be used as a starting point to present the true side of the Greater Bay Area to secondary school teachers in Hong Kong, through them, to sow beautiful seeds for secondary school students, and encourage more Hong Kong youth to develop in the Greater Bay Area." ”
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Young people should work hard for their dreams
How should contemporary new youth show China's new strength to the world? "Stick to your dreams and make unremitting efforts for them." On the morning of December 1, Chen Aisen, a member of the Chinese diving team and Olympic champion, shared his sports story from the perspective of a young athlete as a guest speaker.
He has faced career challenges due to injuries and other issues
At the age of 3, he was photographed by the sports school coach and began to practice gymnastics for the first time; when he was 7 years old, he turned to diving; at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Brazil, he won two gold medals in the men's double 10m platform and the men's single 10m platform in the diving competition, and became the first athlete in the history of the Olympics to win the gold medal in the men's single 10m platform and the men's double 10m platform... In the seemingly smooth athlete career, Chen Aisen has also faced career challenges due to injuries and other issues. More than two years after winning the medal for the Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he could not complete the training systematically due to injury problems, the pain made him unable to raise his arm, and his whole body was almost injured, but he did not give up. Although his physical condition was not ideal, he had been paying close attention to his physical strength, removing the aura on his body and re-playing the role of a catcher.
At this year's Tokyo Olympics, Chen Aisen re-stood on the Olympic podium and won the silver medal in the men's double 10-meter jump. At the National Games in September this year, he once again finished third in the men's 10m platform, the men's team and the men's double 10m platform.
At the meeting, Chen Aisen said that the power of sports is never limited to the exciting moments on the field, and sports encourage people to work hard at all times, not to give up, not to give up.
When going abroad to compete, send other contestants great white rabbit milk candy
As a native of Guangzhou, Chen Aisen is an example of starting from Guangzhou and telling Chinese stories well. From the Guangzhou Sports School all the way to the Olympic champion abroad, today's Chen Aisen still has a little childlike heart. In the interview, Chen Aisen also revealed that when he went abroad to compete, he also brought great white rabbit milk candy to other participants, "When I was a child, I liked to eat white rabbit milk candy, plus there was no such delicious milk candy abroad, which was distributed to other participants, and the response was super good." ”
Chen Aisen said that young athletes in the new era have shown the heroic posture and style of contemporary Chinese on the big stage of the Olympic Games, and have attracted the attention of the world with a fighting attitude. In order to live up to the youth and the party, and realize the dream of a strong country in sports, we must work hard and dedicate, surpass ourselves, do not forget yesterday's suffering and glory, live up to today's mission, and live up to tomorrow's great dream.
In the future, we will also tell the Story of China through the Olympic Movement and cultural dissemination, carry forward the Chinese sports spirit, strengthen international sports exchanges and cooperation, and make positive contributions to promoting mutual learning and people-to-people exchanges between China and other countries in the world. He sent a message to his peers, "Stick to your dreams and make unremitting efforts for them." ”
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Telling Chinese stories well is a proposition that young people must consciously complete at present
"The two parts of what I've been doing in my youth, media and literary writing, one is trying to record Chinese stories, and the other is trying to tell Chinese stories." On the morning of December 1st, at the theme forum of "New Era, New Youth, New Responsibility", the well-known writer Cai Chongda told how he told the story of China through writing.
For Guangzhou, Cai Chongda is no stranger, the first job after graduating from university was in the media in Guangzhou, and he is full of gratitude for the city. Because of his media experience, Cai Chongda has been trying to write and edit Chinese stories. At the meeting, he said that he was fortunate to be in some critical periods in the development of new fields of Chinese magazines. As a media person, Cai Chongda once deeply felt that Chinese stories lacked to tell in the world.
As a writer, he also feels the difficulty of telling Chinese stories. "In the process of dealing with foreign literary institutions and media organizations, you will find that they have a very strong, even solidified structure and observation logic in their hearts." Cai Chongda said that the logical struggle is actually never ending, the story is the biggest truth, and the story is the most powerful logic. "How do you tell a story? I think that talking about everything that comes from the heart and going to your own heart is the fastest way to the heart of others. It is also the most important way to tell the Chinese story. ”
Cai Chongda laughed and said that the writer is like God's crop, "The more I write, the more I find that where God put you, you will feel the customs and customs of which place, and what kind of sensitive experience you will have when you live in your original family, these will constitute your material." In fact, what we can write is precisely what is the foundation on which we stand, what constitutes us. Write about your inner feelings. How can new youth tell the Chinese story to the world? In Cai Chongda's view, this is a proposition that the current young generation must consciously complete.
Written by: Nandu reporter Zheng Yunan Provided by the interviewee