FUZHOU, China, Aug 8 (Bernama-AsiaNet) — The 13th Straits Youth Day staged its centralized activities on August 1-7, featuring 25 events, including the 13th Straits Youth Heart-to-Heart Exchange, the 9th Cross-Strait College Student Leadership Camp, and the 4th Taiwan Youth Talk at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). It is estimated that more than 2,000 young talents from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan participated in these events in Fuzhou.
In order to promote youth exchanges and integrated development, Fuzhou has held 12 Straits Youth Festivals since 2013, attracting at least 41,000 participants. Among them, more than 23,000 are Taiwan compatriots, and it was their first trip to the mainland for nearly half of them. Since this year, the Straits Youth Festival has been upgraded to Straits Youth Day, pooling the wisdom of young people and injecting momentum into the integrated development of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.