This article**: People's Daily Online.
People's Daily Online, Seoul, December 1 (Reporter Ma Fei) The Korean Alumni Association in China held the "Korean Alumni Development Forum in China" in Seoul on the 1st, Chinese Ambassador to South Korea Xing Haiming attended the event and delivered a speech, Park Ding, a member of the National Assembly of the Democratic Party of Korea and a Korean alumnus of Wuhan University, Choi Yunxuan, president of the Korean Alumni Association in China, Ai Hongge, Education Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in South Korea, and other guests attended.
The Korean Alumni Association held the "Korean Alumni Development Forum" in Seoul on the 1st. Photo courtesy of the Chinese Embassy in South Korea.
Xing Haiming said that China and the ROK are inseparable neighbors and inseparable cooperative partners, and the two sides have a long history of friendly exchanges. In terms of people-to-people exchanges, before the pandemic, there were more than 10 million people-to-people exchanges between China and South Korea. At one time, there were more than 70,000 Chinese students studying in South Korea and South Korean students studying in China, and China and South Korea have always been the largest foreign students in each other's countries. The development of China-ROK relations has brought benefits to the two countries and peoples and is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples.
Xing Haiming stressed that China and the ROK are geographically close, culturally and personally, and that national feelings are the cornerstone of bilateral relations. As friendly neighbors, China and the ROK should uphold the original aspiration of establishing diplomatic relations, adhere to the neighborly path of trustworthiness, harmony, kindness and good-neighborliness, eliminate interference, communicate and cooperate, work together and move in the same direction on the basis of mutual respect and mutual benefit, and promote the deepening and practical cooperation between the two sides in various fields such as economic and trade exchanges and people-to-people and cultural exchanges, so as to achieve win-win cooperation. The majority of alumni studying in China have Xi work experience in China, and are not only witnesses and participants in the development of China-South Korea relations, but also promoters of the development of China-South Korea relations.
The majority of alumni in China have said that this event is the first large-scale offline alumni event held in China after the epidemic, which provides a good exchange opportunity for everyone, enhances the sense of belonging of the majority of alumni, and strengthens everyone's confidence and determination to actively promote the development of relations between the two countries.
Since its establishment in 2014, Korean alumni from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Renmin University and many other universities have responded positively, and have successively established university-level alumni associations to make suggestions and suggestions for the development of bilateral relations.