民相親從青少年做起
——淄博市外事僑務辦深化國際友城青少年交流工作

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民相親從青少年做起
——淄博市外事僑務辦深化國際友城青少年交流工作

□ 文、圖/劉巖

習近平總書記曾指出，“國之交在于民相親，而民相親要從青年做起”。青少年既是播種友誼的使者，也是未來友好關系的建設者、深化合作的推動者。近年來，淄博市外事僑務辦始終堅持推進國際友城青少年交流工作，圍繞“胸懷世界議外僑、跟著經濟干外僑、跳出外僑看外僑”指導思想，以官方帶民間、以交流促合作，不斷夯實“城、站、人”（友城、工作站、聯絡人）工作根基，著力深化國際友城青少年的交流、互鑒、共享活動，拓寬了淄博友城工作渠道，助力了全市各領域對外交流合作。

開展青少年交流，打造交流活動品牌

近年來，淄博市外事僑務辦先后開展了與俄羅斯、韓國等友城的青少年交流活動。一是成功舉辦了首屆對俄交流活動，2015年8月，淄博青少年交流團首訪俄羅斯友城諾夫哥羅德市；2016年，8月首次邀請俄羅斯友城青少年到訪淄博，完成了淄博市與諾市的第一屆青少年交流活動，雙方開展了豐富多彩的交流活動，取得豐碩成果，雙方反響良好。二是“十三年如一日”做好對韓友好交流活動。

從2004年到2016年，淄博市外事僑務辦于每年的七八月份均組織與淄博的友好城市韓國廣州市青少年代表團進行互訪，通過廣泛交流，兩市青少年親身體驗了兩國歷史、文化和風土人情，增進了青少年之間的相互了解，進一步加深了兩市友誼，拓展了文化、體育等方面的合作。三是致力于提升友城交流品牌，據統計，淄博市共有國際友城12個，其中，與韓國廣州市的青少年交流最緊密，兩市共舉辦青少年交流13屆，參與人數共計560人；同時開展了公務員交流7屆，參與人數共計13人；高層互訪及其他領域交流團組共計41批共計432人；并且在淄博全市建立友好學校5對，形成“經貿、教育、文化、體育、環保及新農村建設”多領域交流合作蓬勃發展的良好局面，取得了豐碩成果，成為淄博與國際友城交往合作中的品牌典范。

豐富活動載體，高標推進交流活動

在按照標準嚴格選拔品學兼優、富有正能量的青少年參與對外交流的基礎上，淄博外事僑務辦堅持高標準，做好三注重。

一是注重文化交流。依托淄博齊文化底蘊深厚，文物古跡眾多，自然風光秀美等特點，在每次交流活動中不斷豐富對外交流的文化內涵，開展了包括參觀陶瓷展覽館、齊文化博物院、足球博物館、傳統陶瓷手工體驗、觀看蹴鞠表演、游覽自然景觀等活動，讓青少年們切身體會到中國優秀傳統文化、齊魯優秀傳統文化的深厚底蘊。

二是注重互鑒共享，交流中，采取結對家庭體驗、才藝晚會的形式，讓兩國青少年互相深入到各自家庭生活、延展到社會生活中，充分吸收友邦的良俗風序，更好體現了互鑒共享的交往理念。同時，較高的個人素質和正能量，也使很多異國青少年伙伴一直保持通訊、互通有無，結下了深厚友情。

三是注重載體創新，2015年，兩市青少年代表團在俄羅斯諾市斯列涅夫花園，舉行了淄博—諾夫哥羅德友誼園栽種和立牌儀式；2016年，在淄博游人眾多的齊盛湖公園專門開辟了中俄青少年交流友誼林，即我市首個國際青少年友誼林，為兩市友好關系增添了新鑒證、留下了活檔案。同時，活動也利用網絡、微信等新媒體推送信息，邀請友城兩市主要媒體進行了跟蹤報道，還在淄博日報開辟專版報道，擴大了我市友城青少年交流項目影響力，收到了良好社會效果，為推動友城交流合作奠定了堅實基礎。

共享“城、站、人”資源，積極服務基層合作

“友城、聯絡站、聯絡人”資源網絡建設與共享，是目前淄博市外事僑務辦重點工作之一，其主要目的是集全市外事僑務工作之力，多維度、全領域拓展友城，相機在世界各大城市建立聯絡站，增加國際友人和僑領華人的人脈資源，并實施全市友城渠道、信息等資源共享。在青少年交流及教育合作中，與市教育局等部門、各區縣通力配合，協助開展了多屆臨淄區與友好區郡的青少年足球錦標賽活動，協助沂源、張店的有關中小學和淄博中學等與韓國、馬來西亞有關學校，世紀英才外語學校與新西蘭菲歐納學院、沂源二中與俄羅斯諾夫哥羅德市一中的友好學校結好工作，推動山東理工大學與羅馬尼亞克魯日—納波卡大學建立友好合作關系等。據初步統計，目前淄博共對外結好學校36對，近3年來對外結好學校26對，并在多所學校成功開展了校際友好交流與合作。

落實出訪成果，不斷深化青少年交流

2016年6月，時任淄博市市長周連華率市政府代表團赴英國訪問，與伯恩茅斯市簽署建立友好城市關系協議，同時，雙方也簽署了兩市青少年交流方面協議書。根據協議書規定，2017年兩市將開展一系列友好交往工作，包括在伯恩茅斯市舉辦“中國節”、互派青少年交流代表團等。今年，淄博市外事僑務辦積極與伯恩茅斯市進行了前期對接，認真對兩市首次青少年交流活動進行籌備。同時也協助市教育局舉辦了與澳大利亞友好合作城市普雷福德市的教育合作座談會，對接推進了與德國和法國友城的青少年足球交流活動等，努力將友城青少年交流這把“未來和希望之火”燒得愈加旺盛，加快淄博國際化發展，為建設現代化組群式大城市增添助力。

（作者單位：山東省淄博市政府外事僑務辦公室）

General Secretary Xi Jinping once pointed out, “The relationship between two countries is based on the affection between two countries’ civilian. Therefore, it has to be done from teenagers.” Teenagers are not only messengers of friendship, but also constructors of the future friendship and promoters of further cooperation. In recent years, Zibo Municipal Foreign Affairs & Overseas Chinese Affairs Office always adheres to promote the exchange of teenagers with international sister cities. According to the guidance ideology of “Negotiate the work of foreign affairs and overseas Chinese affairs with an open mind,conduct the work by following the economic policy and deliberate the work by jumping out of the box”,Zibo Municipal Foreign Affairs & Overseas Chinese Affairs Office focuses on deepening the exchange,mutual learning and sharing activities of teenagers with international sister cities, which have broadened Zibo’s working channels of sister cities and helped all the fi elds to carry out foreign exchanges and cooperation.

Carry out teenagers’ exchanges and build up the

brand of exchange activity

In recent years, exchange activities of teenagers between sister cities including Russia and Korea have been held successively by Zibo Municipal Foreign Affairs & Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.Zibo Municipal Foreign Affairs & Overseas Chinese Affairs Of fi ce had successfully held the fi rst exchange activities with Russia. Since August 2015, both sides had carried out rich exchange activities and had achieved fruitful results and good feedback. Besides,Zibo Municipal Foreign Affairs & Overseas Chinese Affairs Of fi ce has made unchanged friend exchanges with South Korea for thirteen years.

From 2004 to 2016, Zibo Municipal Foreign Affairs& Overseas Chinese Affairs Office had organized a mutual visit in each July and August with Kwuangju City, the sister city in South Korea, forming a good situation of exchange and cooperation in various fi elds including economy, trade, education, culture, sports,environmental protection and new rural construction.Fruitful results had been achieved. It has become a brand model in the communication and cooperation with the international sister cities of Zibo.

Enrich the activity carriers and promote the exchange

activities with high standards

In accordance with the standard to strictly select teenagers who are excellent in character and learning and full of positive energy,Zibo Municipal Foreign Affairs & Overseas Chinese Affairs Of fi ce adheres to high standards and pays attention to three important aspects.

First, pay attention to cultural exchanges. Relying on the rich and profound Qi Culture, numerous cultural relics and historical sites and beautiful natural scenery in Zibo, the foreign exchange in each exchange activity has constantly enriched the culture connotations.Many activities are carried out like a visit to ceramic exhibition hall, Museum of Qi Culture, Football Museum, the experience of traditional handmade ceramic, watching the show of Cuju (ancient game of kicking a ball) and the natural landscape tour in order to allow teenagers to keenly feel the profoundness and extensiveness of excellent traditional Chinese culture and Culture of Qi and Lu.

Second, pay attention to mutual learning and share. During the exchange, through the pattern of family experience and talent show, teenagers from both countries could experience different family life and social life, fully understand the good custom of sister city, which better reflects the communication concept of mutual learning and share. In the meanwhile, a relatively high personal quality and positive energy also enables many foreign teenagers to keep communication with each other, make up what the other needs and forge a deep friendship.

Third, pay attention to innovation. In 2015, the delegations of two cities’ teenagers took part in a planting and opening ceremony of Novgorod Friendship Garden in Slenev Garden, Novgorod, Russia;in 2016, a forest symbolizing the teenagers’ friendship between China and Russia was exclusively established in Qi Shenghu Park where a lot of tourists would visit, which is also the fi rst international teenagers’ friendship forest in Zibo. A new authentication is added and living archives are left to the friendship between the two sister cities.

Share the resource of “city, station and liaison” and actively

serve grass-roots unit

The construction and sharing of the resource network of “sister city,connect station and liaison” is one of the most important work of Zibo Municipal Foreign Affairs & Overseas Chinese Affairs Of fi ce.It main purpose is to collect all the work force of foreign affairs and overseas Chinese affairs in a bid to fi nd more sister cities in various dimensions, set up more connect stations in every big city in the world, increase the human resource of international friends and overseas Chinese. In the exchange and education cooperation of teenagers, several Teenagers’ Football Championships between Linzi District and sister districts and counties were co-organized with related departments of Municipal Education Bureau and each districts and counties. It has also helped some related primary and middle schools in Yiyuan and Zhangdian to set up friendships with related schools in South Korea and Malaysia, Century Talents Foreign Languages School with Fiona College in New Zealand,Yiyuan No.2 Middle School with Novgorod No.1 Middle School in Russia. Moreover, it has pushed to establish friendly cooperation relations between Shandong University of Technology with Cluj-Napoca University in Romania. According to preliminary statistics,there are 36 couples of friendly school in our city and 26 of them were signed in the past 3 years. Friendly exchange and cooperation between different schools are successfully carried out in several schools.

Implement the visiting results, and constantly deepen

exchanges among teenagers

In June 2016, when Zhou Lianhua, who was then the mayor of Zibo, headed a delegation to Britain, an agreement to set up sister city relation with Bournemouth and an protocol about the teenagers’ exchange of both cities were signed. In 2017, two cities will carry out a series of friendly exchanges including the“Festival of China” held in Bournemouth and the delegations of teenagers’ exchange and etc. In this year, Zibo Municipal Foreign Affairs & Overseas Chinese Affairs Office tries to strengthen the communication between teenagers of both sides who would be the “fire of future and hope” in order to speed up the internationalization of Zibo and help to build a modern group typecity.

(Author’s unit: Zibo Municipal Foreign Affairs & Overseas Chinese Affairs Of fi ce, Shandong Province)

The Affection Between Two Countries’ Civilian should Be Done from Teenagers—Zibo Municipal Foreign Affairs & Overseas Chinese Affairs Of fi ce deepens the exchange of teenagers with international sister cities

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