2021 marked the 30th Anniversary of ASEAN-China Dialogue Relations. To commemorate the milestone, the Foreign Affairs Office of Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and the ASEAN-China Centre co-held a series of activities. As a special cultural activity of the ASEAN-Jiangsu Exchanges Week, the Amazing Stories of ASEAN and Jiangsu ASEAN · Jiangsu Cultural Festival held an opening ceremony at Jinling Library on December 17. Foreign students of Nanjing Vocational College of Information Technology were invited to attend the event.
After a culture and tourism promotional video of ten ASEAN countries, the ceremony was declared open. Representatives of the college's foreign students came to the stage to participate in the flag presentation ceremony which marks the start of the ASEAN Youth Jiangsu Study Tour.As an integral part of this Festival, the ASEAN Youth Jiangsu Study Tour with the theme of Shared Home, Shared Future will last for four days. It provides an opportunity for ASEAN students in Jiangsu to experience the excellent traditional culture of Chinese opera, porcelain, food and so on, to experience the construction of smart cities and new rural life in Jiangsu, and to gain an in-depth understanding of the beauty of Jiangsu.
An Indonesian student from the College who participated in this Study Tour thanked the organizer for providing such a good platform for her to meet ASEAN students from other colleges and expand her knowledge of Chinese culture. She said that she was deeply attracted by the time-honored traditional Chinese culture, and she would contribute to the cultural exchanges between China and Indonesia.
Photo/text by Qiu Bai, School of International Education