Recently, the 2021 China-Latin America Youth Development Forum hosted by the All-China Youth Federation and hosted by Shanghai Overseas Chinese University was held in Shanghai. Fu Zhenbang, secretary of the Secretariat of the CYL Central Committee, Shi Yade, Mexican ambassador to China, Li Yansong, president of Shanghai University of Foreign Chinese, and Li Cuiying, counselor of the Latin American Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were invited to attend the forum.
The theme of this forum is "Working together to eradicate poverty and promote common development". More than 70 youth leaders and youth representatives from 10 countries, including China, Mexico, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela, participated in the forum through online and offline means. Youth representatives from all countries congratulated China on its historic achievements in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, expressed appreciation for China's completion of the United Nations poverty reduction goals 10 years ahead of schedule, provided a successful sample for poverty reduction governance in developing countries, and conducted extensive and in-depth dialogues and exchanges on China-Latin America cooperation, youth responsibilities, and poverty reduction challenges under the new crown epidemic.
In his speech, Fu Zhenbang, secretary of the Secretariat of the CYL Central Committee, recalled the great victory of the Chinese people in the battle against poverty under the leadership of the Party Central Committee since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and introduced the vivid cases of Chinese youth who have the courage to take responsibility, innovate and carry out projects such as poverty alleviation through academic employment and entrepreneurship, poverty alleviation through e-commerce consumption, and poverty alleviation through volunteer services, and actively participate in poverty alleviation. He pointed out that China and Latin America are a community of common destiny that watches over each other and helps each other, and the young people of China and Latin America are young fellow travelers for peaceful development, and they must firmly be promoters of exchanges and mutual learning, contributors to cooperation and development, and defenders of multilateralism, and strive for the development of China-Latin America cooperation and the development of world peace.
Fu Zhenbang, secretary of the Secretariat of the CYL Central Committee, delivered a speech
Li Yansong, president of Shanghai University of Foreign Chinese, first extended a warm welcome to the youth representatives in Latin America. He pointed out that Shanghai and Foreign countries have always attached importance to maintaining close contact with universities, institutions and outstanding scholars in Latin America and are committed to the practice of dialogue between Chinese and Latin American civilizations. Shanghai and foreign countries are willing to make joint efforts with friendly institutions in Latin America to further establish an exchange mechanism between young students between China and Latin America, promote high-level mutual visits between Chinese and Latin American scholars, deepen academic research in specific fields such as Spanish-Portuguese language, art and humanities, and provide a more international, professional and high-level platform for the development of young people on both sides. It is hoped that the young people of China and Latin America will seize the opportunity to jointly contribute their youthful wisdom to promoting the all-round development of China-Latin America relations, so that China-Latin America relations will glow with new vitality in jointly coping with challenges.
Li Yansong, President of Shanghai University of Chinese, delivered a speech
Mexico's ambassador to China, Syyad, said in his speech that no country in the world has more say in poverty reduction than China, and China's achievements in poverty alleviation are milestones in human history, because China not only solves the problem of poverty of its own people, but also provides an excellent model for poverty reduction in the world. He also introduced Mexico's national projects to help young people grow into talents, such as "Youth Building the Future" and "Planting Life", and called on Latin American and Chinese youth to strengthen exchanges and cooperation to build a better world.
Ambassador Syyad of Mexico to China delivered a speech
At the meeting, young leaders from all over the world expressed their views around the theme of the forum, providing valuable ideas for coordinated reform, global pluralistic governance and international assistance. Diego Masokone, director of the Center for The Study of China's Political Economy in Latin America, thanked China for its material, technical and other support for epidemic prevention and control, and summarized China's poverty reduction policies in the fields of people's livelihood, education, and health that Latin American countries can learn from. Sorriso introduced the "Family Grant" program, an important public policy for poverty eradication in Brazil, hoping that the young people of Latin America and China would strengthen exchanges and cooperation and work together to build a country and the world oriented to the interests of the people; Ayilin Alvarez Garcia, the first secretary of the Communist Youth League of Cuba, highly appreciated the important role played by the young generation in the construction of the country in the context of epidemic prevention and control, and hoped to strengthen cooperation and common development with China; Alejandro Encinas, director of the Department of Labor Policy and Institutional Relations of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of Mexico · Nahra shares Mexico's efforts to improve people's well-being through labor policies such as strengthening youth education and training, democratic consultation in trade unions, and minimum wage guarantees; Violeta Beas, an adviser to peru's Ministry of the Interior, deeply analyzes poverty as the root cause of serious social problems such as "human trafficking" and must be brought together by the whole society to address them; Nicolas Maduro Guilla, a representative of the National Assembly of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, said that young people are "the first to learn, the first to work, and the first to defend the country." It is hoped that the young people of Latin America and China will unite and jointly move towards a more prosperous future.
Diego Masokone, Director of the Center for the Study of China's Political Economy in Latin America, delivered a speech
Ronald Sorriso, Secretary of the National Committee of the Youth League of the Brazilian Labour Party, made a statement
Ailin Alvarez Garcia, First Secretary of the Communist Youth League of Cuba, made a statement
The representative of the National Assembly of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Guilla, made a statement
In the subsequent case sharing session of youth representatives, Wang Qinzhi, executive vice president of the Youth Development And Exchange Center of Shanghai Dream Gas Station, shared his experience in education and poverty alleviation with the team. Tatiana Fernandez, head of the Foundation for Development Cooperation between Latin America and China in Argentina, described the local government's poverty reduction strategy from the perspective of urban planning and development in District 31 of Buenos Aires, Argentina. International Relations Adviser to the Youth Committee of the Brazilian Labor Party, Aleksandr A. Pupo talked about the changes in the Brazilian people during the Lula and Dioma governments around the Family Grant Program. Finally, Adolfo Fabricio Lycoa Campos, a doctoral student at Shanghai University of foreign Chinese, introduced the literary moral education in poverty alleviation.
The scene of the China-Latin America Youth Development Forum
After the forum, Comrade Fu Zhenbang, secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, accompanied by the school leaders, successively investigated the Brain and Cognitive Science Laboratory, the Language Museum, the University Library and the Shangwai Studio of the All-China Youth Federation Cultural Research and Dissemination Base located in the Creative Space of Chinese Shanghai Foreign University, to understand the integration and development of the school's disciplines, and conducted in-depth exchanges with school leaders and teachers and students on matters such as youth international exchanges and the reform of the Tuanxue organization.
Dong Xia, director of the International Department of the CYL Central Committee, Wang Jing, deputy secretary of the Shangwai Party Committee, and Ding Bo, deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee, attended the forum and research work. Responsible persons of the Shanghai Youth Management Cadre College, the Cooperation and Exchange Department of the Youth League Municipal Committee, the Department of Western Languages, the Foreign Affairs Office, the Student Affairs Office, the International Business Administration College, the Language Museum, the Library, the Youth League Committee and other departments participated in the above activities, and the departments of logistics, information technology, and security participated in the preparation and organization of the activities.
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