民相亲从青少年做起——淄博市外事侨务办深化国际友城青少年交流工作

□ 文、图/刘岩

民相亲从青少年做起
——淄博市外事侨务办深化国际友城青少年交流工作

□ 文、图/刘岩

习近平总书记曾指出，“国之交在于民相亲，而民相亲要从青年做起”。青少年既是播种友谊的使者，也是未来友好关系的建设者、深化合作的推动者。近年来，淄博市外事侨务办始终坚持推进国际友城青少年交流工作，围绕“胸怀世界议外侨、跟着经济干外侨、跳出外侨看外侨”指导思想，以官方带民间、以交流促合作，不断夯实“城、站、人”（友城、工作站、联络人）工作根基，着力深化国际友城青少年的交流、互鉴、共享活动，拓宽了淄博友城工作渠道，助力了全市各领域对外交流合作。

开展青少年交流，打造交流活动品牌

近年来，淄博市外事侨务办先后开展了与俄罗斯、韩国等友城的青少年交流活动。一是成功举办了首届对俄交流活动，2015年8月，淄博青少年交流团首访俄罗斯友城诺夫哥罗德市；2016年，8月首次邀请俄罗斯友城青少年到访淄博，完成了淄博市与诺市的第一届青少年交流活动，双方开展了丰富多彩的交流活动，取得丰硕成果，双方反响良好。二是“十三年如一日”做好对韩友好交流活动。

从2004年到2016年，淄博市外事侨务办于每年的七八月份均组织与淄博的友好城市韩国广州市青少年代表团进行互访，通过广泛交流，两市青少年亲身体验了两国历史、文化和风土人情，增进了青少年之间的相互了解，进一步加深了两市友谊，拓展了文化、体育等方面的合作。三是致力于提升友城交流品牌，据统计，淄博市共有国际友城12个，其中，与韩国广州市的青少年交流最紧密，两市共举办青少年交流13届，参与人数共计560人；同时开展了公务员交流7届，参与人数共计13人；高层互访及其他领域交流团组共计41批共计432人；并且在淄博全市建立友好学校5对，形成“经贸、教育、文化、体育、环保及新农村建设”多领域交流合作蓬勃发展的良好局面，取得了丰硕成果，成为淄博与国际友城交往合作中的品牌典范。

丰富活动载体，高标推进交流活动

在按照标准严格选拔品学兼优、富有正能量的青少年参与对外交流的基础上，淄博外事侨务办坚持高标准，做好三注重。

一是注重文化交流。依托淄博齐文化底蕴深厚，文物古迹众多，自然风光秀美等特点，在每次交流活动中不断丰富对外交流的文化内涵，开展了包括参观陶瓷展览馆、齐文化博物院、足球博物馆、传统陶瓷手工体验、观看蹴鞠表演、游览自然景观等活动，让青少年们切身体会到中国优秀传统文化、齐鲁优秀传统文化的深厚底蕴。

二是注重互鉴共享，交流中，采取结对家庭体验、才艺晚会的形式，让两国青少年互相深入到各自家庭生活、延展到社会生活中，充分吸收友邦的良俗风序，更好体现了互鉴共享的交往理念。同时，较高的个人素质和正能量，也使很多异国青少年伙伴一直保持通讯、互通有无，结下了深厚友情。

三是注重载体创新，2015年，两市青少年代表团在俄罗斯诺市斯列涅夫花园，举行了淄博—诺夫哥罗德友谊园栽种和立牌仪式；2016年，在淄博游人众多的齐盛湖公园专门开辟了中俄青少年交流友谊林，即我市首个国际青少年友谊林，为两市友好关系增添了新鉴证、留下了活档案。同时，活动也利用网络、微信等新媒体推送信息，邀请友城两市主要媒体进行了跟踪报道，还在淄博日报开辟专版报道，扩大了我市友城青少年交流项目影响力，收到了良好社会效果，为推动友城交流合作奠定了坚实基础。

共享“城、站、人”资源，积极服务基层合作

“友城、联络站、联络人”资源网络建设与共享，是目前淄博市外事侨务办重点工作之一，其主要目的是集全市外事侨务工作之力，多维度、全领域拓展友城，相机在世界各大城市建立联络站，增加国际友人和侨领华人的人脉资源，并实施全市友城渠道、信息等资源共享。在青少年交流及教育合作中，与市教育局等部门、各区县通力配合，协助开展了多届临淄区与友好区郡的青少年足球锦标赛活动，协助沂源、张店的有关中小学和淄博中学等与韩国、马来西亚有关学校，世纪英才外语学校与新西兰菲欧纳学院、沂源二中与俄罗斯诺夫哥罗德市一中的友好学校结好工作，推动山东理工大学与罗马尼亚克鲁日—纳波卡大学建立友好合作关系等。据初步统计，目前淄博共对外结好学校36对，近3年来对外结好学校26对，并在多所学校成功开展了校际友好交流与合作。

落实出访成果，不断深化青少年交流

2016年6月，时任淄博市市长周连华率市政府代表团赴英国访问，与伯恩茅斯市签署建立友好城市关系协议，同时，双方也签署了两市青少年交流方面协议书。根据协议书规定，2017年两市将开展一系列友好交往工作，包括在伯恩茅斯市举办“中国节”、互派青少年交流代表团等。今年，淄博市外事侨务办积极与伯恩茅斯市进行了前期对接，认真对两市首次青少年交流活动进行筹备。同时也协助市教育局举办了与澳大利亚友好合作城市普雷福德市的教育合作座谈会，对接推进了与德国和法国友城的青少年足球交流活动等，努力将友城青少年交流这把“未来和希望之火”烧得愈加旺盛，加快淄博国际化发展，为建设现代化组群式大城市增添助力。

（作者单位：山东省淄博市政府外事侨务办公室）

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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