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Belt and Road Global Youth Leaders Summit 2018 Beijing is Kicked Off in Shougang

Release Time:2018-09-14 14:14:39

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On the morning of July 16, the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Global Youth Leaders Summit 2018 Beijing jointly hosted by the Beijing Youth Talent Work Leading Group Office, the Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, Peking University and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and organized by the Shougang Group was held in the Shougang Cultural Center. Wei Xiaodong, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, minister of Organization Department and leader of the Municipal Talent Work Leading Group, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Lin Jianhua, president of Beijing University, Geoffrey Q.P. SHEN, vice president of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Zhang Gongyan, general manager of Shougang Group, delivered speeches respectively. Timothy W. TONG, president of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, delivered a speech.

As early as the 1990s, Shougang Group has already invested in countries along the “Belt and Road” to carry out international cooperation. At present, 62 foreign institutions have been established in 24 countries and regions, becoming a practitioner of China’s reform and opening up, and the construction of the “Belt and Road”. Recently, Shougang Group has sticked to the concept of sustainable development, retained the strong industrial heritage of the Beijing Park, integrated sports, culture, science and technology and other elements across the border, and been committed to building a future urban industrial community full of industrial style and creating a new landmark of urban renewal with global influence.

On behalf of the Beijing Talent Work Leading Group, Wei Xiaodong expressed warm congratulations on the event held and expressed warm welcome and sincere greetings to youths and distinguished guests from various countries and regions. He said that the major initiative of building the “Belt and Road” has won much attention from the international community and positive response from countries along it in the past five years, and has achieved remarkable results in the world. In the next five years, Beijing will build a comprehensive service-oriented platform to serve the country’s “Belt and Road” initiative, and vigorously promote cooperation and win-win results to achieve common development. Through the protection and utilization as well as innovative transformation, the new Shougang area has become the home base of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee. It is piloting the construction of the “Capital International Talent Community”, and is building a chassis platform for the city-industry integration for overseas talents in Beijing and providing home-work living facilities. Experts and youths from all countries along the “Belt and Road” are welcomed to join this big family to build a beautiful new home, and let the beautiful vision of building a community with shared future for humanity become a reality in the relay struggle of generations of youths!

Lin Jianhua, Timothy W. TONG and Geoffrey Q.P. SHEN respectively said in their speeches that they should give full play to their respective educational advantages, stimulate the creative enthusiasm of young people, and jointly improve the future leadership and practical ability of young people, so that they can gather together more and take more action to participate in the practice of social governance, build a community with shared future for humanity, and contribute to making the world a better place.

On behalf of Shougang Group, Zhang Gongyan expressed warm congratulations on the event and expressed warm welcome to all the guests. He said that Shougang Group will provide multi-functional and flexible office space and supporting facilities to meet the needs of international talents, provide all-round services for outstanding international talents to make innovations and start businesses and build a platform for them to give full play to their talents with the strong support of various departments in Beijing and Shijingshan by relying on the park’s unique landscape namely, near the cities, industrial heritage, “double Olympic Games” culture, sports lohas and other advantageous resources.

John Thwaites, co-chair of the UN SDSN Leadership Council, Vicky Colbert, winner of the 2017 Yidan Prize for Education Development, and founder and director of the Fundación Escuela Nueva, Gene A. Corbin, former deputy dean of Harvard College of Harvard University, diplomatic envoys from some countries along the “Belt and Road” to China and other foreign guests; Ye Jingyi, deputy party secretary of Peking University, Angelina YUEN, senior adviser of the president of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Xiong Zhuo, municipal corporation party secretary and honorary chairman of the Beijing Youth Federation, Zhang Qian, deputy director of the Municipal Foreign Affairs Office, Hong Jiyuan, deputy director of the Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, Huang Kan, deputy director of the Municipal Education Commission, Jin Qiuhong, member of the Standing Committee of the Shijingshan District Committee, and minister of the Organization Department, Liang Jie, deputy general manager of Shougang Group, Zhao Tianyang, assistant to the general manager, and other leaders; the sponsors of the event and nearly 300 students from famous universities in 26 countries, Hong Kong and Taiwan of China all attended the opening ceremony.

The week-long event focuses on the three themes of “poverty eradication”, “quality education” and “sustainable community building”. A series of themed speeches, parallel workshops, leadership dialogue, experience-oriented education and other activities will be held.



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