To welcome the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Jinhua and Krasnodar authorities jointly held a youth painting exhibition recently.
Krasnodar is located in southern Russia and became the city's first Russian sister city in November of last year. In order to further strengthen sports and cultural exchanges between the two cities and better spread the Olympic spirit among youth, the two cities held a youth painting exhibition with the theme "Sports, Friendship and Peace".
Paintings by 32 teenagers were collected for the exhibition and publicly displayed on the official websites and social networking sites of the two cities in celebration of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
A painting by Chen Yibei, a fifth grade student at Xiyuan Primary School in Jinhua. [Photo/jhnews.com.cn]
Chen Yibei, a fifth grade student at Xiyuan Primary School, painted a Chinese athlete participating in a snowboard competition along with Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, who won the first gold medal in Chinese Figure Skating in the Olympics.
A painting themed on the Beijing Winter Olympic Games by Alefeeva Diyana Mikhailovna from Russia. [Photo/jhnews.com.cn]
Alefeeva Diyana Mikhailovna is a 14-year-old girl from Russia who drew five athletes participating in speed skating, curling, figure skating, luge, and skiing. She likes Chinese culture and wrote "peaceful friends" in Chinese on the painting.
