Jinhua launches the first Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Exchange Activity on June 13. [Photo/chinanews.com]
Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang province, hosted the first Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Exchange Activity on June 13-14.
During the two-day event, more than 30 youth studying and living in Jinhua who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship visited innovative enterprises, experienced traditional culture, visited developing villages, and discussed entrepreneurship with each other in Jinhua, Lanxi and Yiwu.
The event is an effort by the city to promote communication and exchange with students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and help them better adapt to life in Jinhua, according to officials. More students from these places are encouraged to study, live and work in the eastern Chinese city.
Students tour a car-making workshop in Jinhua on June 13. [Photo/chinanews.com]
Yeh Chen-tung, a young Taiwanese studying at the Yiwu Vocational and Technical College of Industry and Commerce, said he would like to follow in his parents' footsteps to do business in Yiwu, which is famed as the world's largest small commodities supermarket.
Jinhua has been leading foreign trade in the province. From January to April this year, the city saw a year-on-year increase of 36 percent in foreign trade, totaling 205.46 billion yuan ($30.6 billion).
In order to promote exchanges, since 2017 Jinhua has held a series of activities to invite young poeple from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to ancient villages in Jinhua to experience and understand life there, which has increased interest in traditional Chinese culture and the development of rural areas in the province.
