During the opening ceremony, Li Bin, President of China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, expressed her hope that all participants in the event could feel the friendly enthusiasm of the Chinese people towards Africa, see the spirit and style of Chinese youth, experience China's rapid development, and understand the specific practices of China's modernization path and the unremitting efforts of the Chinese people to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
"I believe what you will see is a vibrant China in the spring. A real three-dimensional and comprehensive China, a China that is injecting strong certainty and new vitality into the world with its new development," Li said.