70 'The Chinese Communist Youth League' college students from Beijing visit Yeungnam University
[November 7, 2008]
Yeungnam University (president Tong-ki Woo) received very important guests on the 6th. 100 students from China, including 72 selected from prominent universities around Beijing such as Beijing University and Tsinghua University, visited Yeungnam University.
As part of the young adult cultural exchange program that Korea's Korea-China Culture Association (Future Forest) and the Chinese Communist Youth League, these visitors came to Yeungnam University on the 6th for a Korean-Chinese college student culture performance.
In the afternoon of the 6th, they arrived at the Dormitory and about an hour later, they went to the Yeungnam University Law Library 3rd floor where there was welcoming event for them. In this event, there were 50 students from Yeungnam University including international students from China, Yeungnam University students who went to colleges in China as exchange students and representatives from the Yeungnam University student body.
In the cultural performance following the banquet, clubs at University welcomed the Chinese students with extravagant dance performances, wushu demonstrations, folk performance and classic guitar performances. The Chinese students also sang folk songs of Chinese ethnic minority groups and also performed traditional dance performances of Korean Chinese and sang the Beijing Olympic theme song.
Moon Hye-young (23, senior in Chinese and Chinese literature), who went to the Beijing University of Education said, "There were many worries that they anti-Korean sentiment of China may have an effect on this event, but after meeting these students, I was totally relieved from this." She also stated, "There are many things that we college students need to collaborate in for the future of the two nations, as well as the future of East Asia. I have come to believe that we will be able to work better together in the future."
They also visited the 'Korean Chinese College Student Forum' at Kyunghee University on the 5th and agreed to work in diplomatic cooperation for preventing and delaying desertification.
The Chinese Communist Youth League has first established as the Socialist Youth League of China in Shanghai in August 1920, before the founding of the Communist Party of China. Since establishment of the Communist Party of China in July 1921, it was recomposed as an organization under the communist party in May 1922 and in 1925, its name was changed to the Chinese Communist Youth League. During the war against Japan, it was also called the Chinese Democratic Youth League and after establishing the new nation, its name was changed to the Chinese New Democracy Youth League. However, in 1957, its name was once again changed to the Chinese Communist Youth League. The Chinese Communist Youth League was once in its dark ages and had all of its operations suspended during the Culture Revolution. In October 1978, it held its 10th National Representative Conference and it finally began to be more strongly established. There are currently a total of 35.7 million members between the age of 14 and 25 in the Chinese Communist Party.
