What Xi Jinping announced is related to the future of Sino-US relations.

China News Service, September 25. Title: What Xi Jinping announced is related to the future of Sino-US relations.

"Here, I would like to announce that in the next five years, China will invite 100,000 American teenagers to come to China for exchange and study."

On September 24, local time, President Xi Jinping, who was on a state visit to the United States, announced this important news at the White House welcome ceremony.

In 2023, President Xi Jinping announced in San Francisco the initiative to “invite 50,000 American teenagers to come to China for exchange and study in the next five years.” Since then, tens of thousands of American teenagers have crossed the Pacific and entered China to make friends. The "50,000 in 5 Years" initiative has achieved its expected goal two and a half years ahead of schedule.

From more than 50,000 American teenagers visiting China to now inviting 100,000 American teenagers to come to China for exchange and study, the two-way flow of Chinese and American teenagers has become a vivid footnote that "the hope of China-U.S. relations lies in the people and the future lies in the youth."

"The foundation of China-US relations is laid by the people, and the future is created by the youth." President Xi Jinping attaches great importance to people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States, especially the exchanges between young people in the two countries.

During his state visit to the United States 11 years ago, President Xi Jinping visited Lincoln Middle School, a civilian school in Tacoma, amid busy foreign affairs activities.

There, he listened to the children singing "On the Field of Hope" in Chinese and happily accepted the "No. 1" football jersey given by everyone. He presented three bookshelves full of books such as "Tang Poems" and "Song Poems" to the school. He hoped that these books about China would become a window for children to see China, and emphasized that "to read thousands of books, we still have to travel thousands of miles."

“Everyone is welcome to visit China more often, experience and perceive China, understand China more comprehensively and deeply, know China and love China.”

One year later, 118 teachers and students from Lincoln Middle School were invited to visit Hong Kong, Fuzhou, Chengdu, Beijing and other places. More than one-fifth of the students were from low-income families and were flying for the first time in their lives.

Many years later, the then principal of Lincoln Middle School Irwin wrote to President Xi Jinping, talking about the profound impact of the trip to China on the students, "This is the best educational experience in their lives, and the miracle of China has opened their eyes."

There is a Chinese saying: Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times.

In 1985, Xi Jinping, who served as Party Secretary of Zhengding County, Hebei Province, led an agricultural inspection delegation to visit the United States. In the small town of Muscatine, Iowa, he had an "unforgettable experience of living with the American people."

In 2024, President Xi Jinping recalled his first visit to the United States in a reply letter to the students of the Muscatine High School delegation visiting China, and talked about welcoming more American young friends to come to China to exchange and study and "experience a real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China first-hand."

From presenting Chinese books to Lincoln Middle School students, to frequently interacting with Chinese and American teenagers by sending congratulatory letters, reply letters, and returning greeting cards, to inviting tens of thousands of American teenagers to come to China for exchange and study...

President Xi Jinping has always been an active promoter of promoting exchanges and exchanges between Chinese and American youths and planting the seeds of friendship for the future of China-US relations.

Young people are the most energetic and full of dreams. They are the future and hope of China-US relations and the future and hope of the world.

On the eve of this visit to the United States, President Xi Jinping replied to a letter to young students from 10 universities in the United States, saying that the youth of the two countries "strive to become the inheritors, maintainers, and developers of Sino-US friendly cooperation, and work together to promote mutual understanding and mutual understanding between the two peoples, and the stable and long-term relations between the two countries."