“Youth & Global Sharing”-2019 Beijing Sister City Youth Camp Opens at BAIC Group

On October 22, the opening ceremony of the “Youth & Global Sharing-2019 Beijing Sister City Youth Camp” & the International Youth Organization Forum was held at BAIC R&D base, and 200 campers from 30 countries and regions around the world participated in the event. Yin Fei, Inspector of the Foreign Affairs Office of Beijing Municipal Government, Guo Wenjie, Deputy Secretary of Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, Liu Yuhong, Vice President of Beijing People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Zhang Hui, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, Director and Chairman of the Trade Union of BAIC Group, and Wang Jianping, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Head of the Organization Department and HR Department were present at the event.

From 2012 to 2018, from “Meet in Beijing, Join Hands for the Future” to “Community of Global Volunteerism”, Beijing Sister City Youth Camp has gone through seven years during which young people from around the world witnessed the development speed of China in the new era. In 2019, to accelerate the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative Volunteer Service Alliance, build Beijing into an international exchange center, encourage consultation and contribution for shared benefits and win-win results among youths from the world in science & technology, culture, resource, economy and green fields, and jointly build a community of shared future for mankind, the “Youth & Global Sharing-2019 Beijing Sister City Youth Camp” was held during October 20-26, 2019 by Beijing Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, Foreign Affairs Office of Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and Beijing Youth Federation. It’s the 8th consecutive year that BAIC has sponsored the event.

Build Platform, Promote Exchanges, Share Development

At the opening ceremony, Guo Wenjie, Deputy Secretary of Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, delivered an opening speech and warmly welcomed delegates of youth organizations from all over the world on behalf of the organizer. He stressed, China upholds a diplomatic policy aiming to maintain world peace and promote common development, calls on international organizations to strengthen exchanges and communication and encourages youths around the world to make progress hand in hand and contribute to the building of a community of shared future for mankind, and Beijing is willing to build a communication platform for youths around the world to inject more vitality into global development through the collision of ideas and sharing of wisdom and share sci-tech experience, cultural charm and green life.

It is the 70th anniversary of the founding of PRC. Chinese culture is all-embracing and China is getting increasingly prosperous and powerful. With 5000 years’ culture and 40 years’ reform and opening-up, China has both the spirit of pioneering and the capability of innovation. The development of China amazes the world. As a leading enterprise in Beijing, an outstanding representative of high-end manufacturing and sci-tech innovation in Beijing, a Fortune 500 company and a sponsor of the event, BAIC Group is full of pride in the new historical stage.

“Sustained sound development is possible only with the idea of inclusive development for the benefit of all.” Zhang Hui, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, Director and Chairman of the Trade Union of BAIC Group said, “For BAIC Group, sharing means to share the fruits of development.” For a long time, BAIC has constantly deepened international market layout. Guided by the Belt and Road Initiative, it has built OEM and KD plants in over 30 countries and regions abroad, and explored a market covering nearly 80 regions. It not only brings BAIC’s auto manufacturing technologies and management solutions but also promotes economic development of both sides and spurs local employment, letting more people share the happiness.

For BAIC Group, sharing means to share the innovation platform.” BAIC Group constantly strengthens cross-border cooperation and builds China’s first national NEV sci-tech innovation center. It has reached a deep consensus with well-known Chinese high-tech enterprises Huawei and Baidu to accelerate technological innovation and reform of automobile in terms of electrification, intelligence, networking and sharing.

At the opening ceremony, Yin Fei, Inspector of the Foreign Affairs Office of Beijing Municipal Government, and Liu Yuhong, Vice President of Beijing People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, presented the camp flag to camper representatives, which marked formal organization of the 2019 Beijing Sister City Youth Camp and start of the “global sharing” journey.

Theme, Opinion, Practice

The 2019 Beijing Sister City Youth Camp is divided into four sections, namely the International Youth Organization Forum, the Belt and Road Initiative International Volunteer Service Dialogue, and experience of sharing activities, as well as ice-breaking and get-togethers.

The main forum is themed at “youth & global sharing”. Representatives of youths from all over the world made keynote speeches. Yang Nanhua, representative of Chinese youths from BAIC International, said in his speech “achievement comes from development; development benefits from science and technology.” In response to the Belt and Road Initiative, to contribute to the building of a community of shared future for mankind, BAIC not only applies its sci-tech development to the Chinese market but also shares its sci-tech development for years with the world; with seven R&D centers in five countries, BAIC absorbs and applies R&D achievements; in the meantime, BAIC builds OEM and KD factories in over 30 countries and regions abroad, which embodies its local responsibilities as a Chinese enterprise and international responsibility as a world enterprise.

By centering on “sharing”, the sub-forums respectively focused on global sci-tech sharing, global cultural sharing and global green sharing. Youth representatives from BAIC International and BAIC BJEV shared opinions respectively on cultural sharing and sci-tech sharing. Volunteers from Beijing Automotive Technology Center and BAIC BJEV hosted the sub-forums.

The Belt and Road Initiative International Volunteer Service Dialogue gathered representatives of youth organizations from all over the world to discuss the development of Belt and Road Initiative volunteer services in roles respectively as government, NGO, enterprise and media so as to deepen opportunities and challenges in the development of Belt and Road Initiative volunteer services, develop thoughts about work and suggestions for work, and explore potential contributions. The Dialogue also refined and summarized excellent ideas and suggestions and promoted implementation.

In the experience of sharing section, all campers experienced sci-tech sharing at BAIC Group on October 21. They learned global sharing in sci-tech innovation of the auto industry and had an objective understanding of China’s construction of a great modern socialist country. In the following four days, the campers experienced green sharing by hiking on the Great Wall, going to communities and sharing green life of Beijing, and understood the lively practice of China in spreading the concepts of environmental protection and sustainable development and promoting the construction of ecological civilization; they also went to Yanqi Lake, where the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held, to explore cooperation in the field of economic sharing and understand the great contribution of China to promoting world economic development and building a community of shared future for mankind; in addition, they had an experience of cultural sharing by going to the Forbidden City and Dashilan’r outside the Qianmen Gate and experienced the beauty and grandeur of traditional Chinese culture.

As a much-concerned non-governmental diplomatic event for youths, Beijing Sister City Youth Camp aims to promote communication between youths, make the youths’ voice heard, share the wisdom of youths and offer the thoughts of youths. It hopes to build a platform for exchanges and mutual learning between youths around the world and make them cultural ambassador to contribute to shared development and construction of a community of shared future for mankind.