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World youth meet on heritage protection along "Belt and Road"

Summary: An international youth forum promoting creativity andheritage protection along the Belt and Road opened Monday in a 1,000-year-old academyin central China's Hunan Province.






CHANGSHAApril 17 (Xinhua) -- An international youth forum promoting creativity andheritage protection along the Belt and Road opened Monday in a 1,000-year-old academyin central China's Hunan Province.

More than 100 people from 65 countries along the Belt and RoadUNESCO staff andforeign diplomats attended the forum in Yuelu Academy which was founded in 976.

In a congratulatory message to the forumChinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong encouragedthe young people to view the world with an attitude of appreciationmutual learning andsharing to promote exchange and co-existence.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova sent a video message to the opening ceremony ofthe forum.

Participants will listen to academic reportshold symposiums and visit cultural heritagesites in Changshacapital of Hunanand Quanzhou in Fujian Province.

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