--The 2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Youth Spring Festival Party was held in Nansha, Guangzhou.
January 29, 2024, the unicorn dances, the literature and art are beautiful, the movement of benefiting the people is played, and the humanities of the Bay Area are colored.
On January 28, the 2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Youth New Year Party was held in Nansha, Guangzhou, the "heart of the Bay Area". More than 300 young people from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao gathered in the heart of the bay to celebrate the New Year and welcome the National Games.
It is reported that the Spring Festival Gala is hosted by the Executive Committee of the Guangzhou Division of the 15th National Games and the Paralympic Games, the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Guangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau, the Guangzhou Overseas Friendship Association, and the Guangzhou Youth Federation, and the Propaganda Department of the Nansha District Party Committee, the Nansha District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, the Nansha District Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Guangzhou Youth Cultural Palace, the Guangzhou Volunteer Action Guidance Center, and the Guangzhou Youth Development Association. Invite young people from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to experience the Chinese New Year folk customs and experience the development of the Bay Area.
The Bay Area is concentric, cheering up to welcome the whole game
At the beginning of the new year, there is no limit to the vigor. The sound of gongs and drums, the unicorn dances, the pace is brisk, the dance posture is light, the dance shows the vigorous vitality of the youth, the enthusiasm and vitality of Nansha, and the cultural confidence of the Bay Area.
On the stage, this pair of "golden unicorns" are radiant and majestic; In the audience, this group of young people from Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao was engrossed and energetic. Among them, there are young people from Hong Kong and Macao who have gone to the Bay Area for cultural exchanges, young volunteers who are committed to serving urban life, and many of them are post-00 young people who have grown up in the spring breeze of reform and opening up.
Lin Ying, a volunteer of the Guangzhou Youth Volunteer Association, was the youngest volunteer in Guangzhou at that time when she participated in volunteer service on the eve of the Asian Games. "In 2010, I became the messenger of the Guangzhou Asian Games, and I went out of Guangzhou to convey the warm and friendly hospitality of the host to the whole country and the world. I have witnessed the Guangzhou Asian Games' promise of 'bluer sky, clearer water, better roads, more beautiful houses, and more beautiful cities' become a reality, and I have also grown from a small river chief to a backbone of the volunteer service team for river patrol and river protection. We want to take the National Games as an opportunity to gather strength to protect our hometown Hechong and pass on the love and temperature of the Bay Area city. ”
Subsequently, together with Yung Zhenzhen, Huang Weilian, Huang Zhaoyi and other young people from Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao, she issued an initiative to the whole city to actively participate in the volunteer service work in the Guangzhou competition area of the 15th National Games and the Paralympic Games.
At this moment, we young people from Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao are working together to "let us volunteer together and dedicate our wisdom and strength to the development of the Greater Bay Area", "Youth welcome the National Games and dedicate ourselves to Yangcheng, let us 'come together to be more exciting'".
The sonorous and powerful words reflect the sincere hearts of the innocent children, just like the dance of the unicorn just now, majestic and exciting. Folk intangible cultural heritage shines with the light of culture, voluntary initiatives gather the light of civilization, and youth style shows the light of the city, jointly building the most beautiful scenery in Nansha in this winter, and drawing a "new background" of happiness in the Bay Area. At the event, Zhu Xiaoyi, Deputy Director and Deputy Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Guangzhou Division of the 15th National Games and the Paralympic Games, expressed his appreciation for the inheritance of Guangzhou's urban volunteerism, affirmed the cohesion of the youth of the Bay Area to promote the preparation of the National Games, and put forward expectations for the future efforts of the youth of the Bay Area to promote the construction of the Greater Bay Area. He pointed out that the 15th National Games will be held in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in 2025, which is a large-scale comprehensive sports meeting jointly hosted by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
Youth dances, and the youth of the Bay Area show their style
The prosperity of culture leads to the prosperity of the country. With this event, young artists from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area gathered in Nansha to jointly launch a wonderful performance that showed cultural confidence and cultural integration.
Macao youths Yung Zhen Zhen and Wong Wai Lien sang a song "Tomorrow Will Be Better" to express their best wishes for the integrated construction of the Greater Bay Area and the vigorous development of the motherland. "As a young generation, we have grown up under the influence of the culture of the Bay Area, and we are well aware that the cultures of the three places in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have the same roots and origins," said Yung Zhenzhen, "It is the new mission of the young people of the three places to continuously enhance cultural exchanges and integration, and to radiate new vitality and empower the construction of the Bay Area in the new era."
On the day of the event, the musicians from the Guangzhou Youth Cultural Palace Orchestra and the Hong Kong Youth Orchestra played the symphony "My Motherland and Me" together, integrating strong patriotic feelings into the world, accompanied by the dancing posture of the Guangzhou Youth Cultural Palace Dance Troupe, and the beautiful singing of the choir, depicting a beautiful picture of the integration of young people in the Bay Area into the Bay Area and the construction of the Bay Area.
Founded more than 20 years ago, the Guangzhou Youth Cultural Palace Orchestra is a youth art group under the guidance of the Guangzhou Committee of the Communist Youth League, which not only has rich performance experience, but also has "frequent interaction" in cultural exchanges with young artists from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Hong Kong's famous ** educator and conductor Lai Mingquan and former president of the Hong Kong Wind Band Association Cheung Kwok-ming have both guided the orchestra as executive artistic directors. The orchestra has also participated in the "Hong Kong Wind Band Fun" event in Hong Kong, China and the "14th Asia-Pacific Wind Band Festival" in Macao, China, promoting the cultural integration between young artists from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
In the future, under the good atmosphere of "one family in the Bay Area", "the orchestra will continue to strengthen the interaction and communication with young artists from Hong Kong and Macao", said the person in charge of the art team of the Municipal Youth Palace with great expectations, "At the same time, it will also lead other art sub-troupes of the Municipal Youth Palace to expand the 'circle of friends in Hong Kong and Macao', so that the exchange of young artistic talents in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao will be normalized, and the Nansha Plan will be implemented with practical actions!"
The atmosphere of reunion is strong, and the construction of Nansha helps the Bay Area to be a family
Paper-cut window flowers for the Year of the Dragon, Spring Festival reunion fans, twisted New Year flowers, lion auspicious lanterns, New Year blessing bags, and Wufu coasters. On the day of the event, there were also a number of folk culture experience booths with Lingnan characteristics. Under the guidance of the instructor, young people and citizens from Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao painted with cloisonné cloisonné enamel, cut out paper-cut window flowers for the Year of the Dragon with origami, and felt the wonderful intangible cultural heritage skills, characteristic Lingnan culture, and rich New Year atmosphere in one stroke and one cut.
Speaking of the Spring Festival, we all want to go home for a reunion. Today, we can watch performances and visit the Spring Festival Market with everyone, and we all feel like we are home. We are very happy and proud to be able to participate in the construction of the venues for the National Games and contribute to the preparations for the National Games. Mr. Zhang, the builder of the National Games venues, said.
At this special moment, the organizers of the event sent New Year condolence packages to the builders of the venues of the National Games and the young people in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao, expressed their sincere gratitude to everyone for going all out to do a good job in the construction of the venues and other preparations for the National Games, and expressed their good hopes for the National Games to walk with young people and because of the wonderful spiritual connotation of young people.
In 2023, Nansha will build a headquarters base for Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao youth exchange activities here, innovatively carry out people-to-people exchange activities between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and continuously enhance the sense of identity and cohesion. Now, on the occasion of the Spring Festival, here, the Spring Festival Bazaar gathers people's hearts, "adds color" to the cultural benefits of the people, and "adds color" to a happy life, and the connotation of "one family in the Bay Area" has a true portrayal at this moment.
Liu Liqing Correspondent: Guangzhou Nansha District Committee of the Communist Youth League).