By Xing Zhijie
Recently, 2025 ‘China in Children’s Voices’ International Youth Cultural Exchange Summer Camp and Overseas Chinese Elite Youth Cultural Experience Activity was held. In the 10-day activity, more than 60 overseas Chinese youths from 9 Chinese schools in 8 countries which are the United States, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Britain, and Pakistan came to Nantong, and completed a journey to find roots in Chinese culture.
‘We walked on the golden beach, and enjoyed the beautiful scenery by the Yangtze River.’ ‘In Nantong, we tasted various kinds of food. What impressed me most is the delicacy of swimming crabs and puffer fish.’ ‘In the process of making a sachet, every stitch and thread is imbued with the charm of traditional culture.’...
Ganoderma Culture Museum of China is the first stop in Nantong. ‘It’s my first time to see so many ganodermas and mushrooms of different shapes. I not only felt the charm of the ecological environment, but also felt the profoundness of Chinese culture through the magical “immortal herb”.’ Zhen Yiyun from Qiaoxing Training Institute in the UAE said that on that night they also made dumplings with mushroom filling together. The savory flavour was unforgettable for her.
Kong Weichen, an overseas Chinese student from China-Pak Educational Cultural Institute in Pakistan, said that he would bring his hand-painted Chinese painting Blessed with Both Fortune and Prosperity back to Pakistan and hang it on the bedside with his favorite Chinese poetry works. ‘In the future, every time I see these souvenirs, I can recall the wonderful memory.’
‘When I was writing the poem, I found out that Chinese characters are very interesting. Some are like paintings, some are like riddles, and some have a lot of meaning.’ Zhang Enyu from LinD Academy in Slovakia, shared his experiences and feelings when he created the poem Interesting Chinese characters.
Since 2025 ‘China in Children’s Voice’ overseas promotion and exchange activity was started in April, Compilation of Selected Works of Overseas Promotion and Exchange in ‘China in Children’s Voice’ was successively released on ‘Cloud Chinese’ to help overseas Chinese youths learn Chinese and use Chinese. 2025 Overseas Chinese Youth Song Writing Competition attracted more than 1,000 overseas Chinese youths from more than 90 Chinese schools over the world to participate, and collected nearly 1,500 children’s poems and children’s songs.