Strengthen exchanges and mutual learning to promote people-to-people bonds (co-construction of the “One Belt, One Road” through the lens)–News reports-China Communist Party News Network

The Chinese Lunar New Year is an important window for the world to understand China. The colorful New Year celebration activities bring the traditional Chinese Spring Festival culture and folk customs to many countries around the world. In January this year, the Chilean capital Santiago held a celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. The picture shows the audience enjoying the lion dance performance.
Photo courtesy of the Confucius Institute at the Catholic University of Chile

Language is the best key to understanding a country. Currently, more and more foreigners are learning about the colorful, three-dimensional and comprehensive China by learning Chinese and participating in the “Chinese Bridge” exchange program. The picture shows some of the contestants who participated in the Thailand finals of the 22nd “Chinese Bridge” Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students in July this year taking a group photo at the scene.
Photo by Ji Di from the Asia-Pacific Center Branch of this newspaper

Over the years, traditional Chinese medicine has gone abroad and to the world through traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, traditional Chinese medicine clinics, research institutions, etc. The picture shows students majoring in acupuncture at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa participating in a clinical practice course of traditional Chinese medicine at the African Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture.
Photo by Huang Fanghui

Tourism is an important channel for exchanges and mutual learning between different countries and cultures. Under the framework of the Spanish Year of Culture and Tourism in China, relevant activities play an active role in promoting cultural exchanges and tourism cooperation between China and Spain and China and Europe. The picture shows that on July 3, foreign guests watched China’s tourism promotion pictures at the event in Madrid, the capital of Spain.
Photo by our reporter Yan Huan

In 2022, the first Luban Workshop in Central Asia started operations in Tajikistan, making a positive contribution to the development of vocational training in Tajikistan. The picture shows a Tajik professor introducing equipment donated by China to students at the Luban Workshop in Tajikistan in April this year.
Photo by our reporter Yan Huan

In June this year, the CRRC “China-Laos Cultural Overseas Exchange Conference” organized by CRRC Group Co., Ltd. was held in Vientiane, Laos, where the Lao people could experience advanced rail train technology and railway culture up close. The picture shows students from Wanxiang Zongpei Middle School participating in the event.
Photo by our reporter Sun Guangyong

Currently, 32 Chinese institutions have gone abroad to carry out 36 joint archaeological projects, and have established good relationships with more than 40 foreign research institutes and museums, etc., and have achieved remarkable results in promoting talent training and cultural exchanges. The picture shows members of the China-Egypt joint archaeological project of Mentu Temple in Luxor working on site in Luxor, Egypt in May this year.
Photo by Gao Wei

Chinese martial arts are widely known around the world, and more and more foreign friends are falling in love with “Chinese Kung Fu”. Tai Chi has also been included in the United Nations Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The picture shows a Chinese coach leading students to practice Tai Chi at the Argentine Citizen Martial Arts Club in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, in September this year.
Photo by our reporter Song Yiran