"Japanese youth perceive China" essay contest online awards! The winners will visit China next year

Original title: Online award of "Japanese youth perceive China" essay competition! The winners will visit China next year
On November 23, the 2021 "panda Cup" Japanese youth perception of China essay competition held an online award ceremony. It is understood that the competition was founded in 2014. A total of 55 individual awards and 4 group awards were selected this year. The winners of this year's competition will visit China together with the winners of 2020 and 2022 in the second half of 2022. In December 2020, one of the annual winners of the competition, Haruki Iwasaki, said in an exclusive interview with Nandu and N video reporters that she hoped to act as a bridge and become a witness to China Japan friendly relations.

According to the Chinese Embassy in Japan, on November 23, about 100 people, including representatives of the co organizers, judges and award-winning Japanese youth representatives, had online exchanges. Kong Xuanyou, Chinese ambassador to Japan, said that China and Japan are close neighbors separated by a strip of water, and enhancing national feelings between them is a common topic facing both sides.
He said, "from your articles, we have read about the family affection, friendship and love between China and Japan, the cultural blending that has lasted for 2000 years, the Chinese people's spiritual world of peace, harmony and harmony, and the Chinese people's way of seeking common ground while reserving differences and being good with their neighbors. I am very moved that some Japanese young people compare China to their second hometown."
In December 2020, Nandu and N video reporters interviewed Haruki Iwasaki, one of the annual winners of the competition. From 2018 to early 2020, she came to China as a volunteer of "Japanese youth overseas cooperation team" and became a nurse in the International Department of Beijing China Japan Friendship Hospital. In January 2020, Chunxiang returned to Japan early because of the epidemic. Then she wrote Xiangxiang diary in the form of cartoon to record the daily life and work in China.
According to Haruki Iwasaki, her award-winning article "come on" recorded what she saw in China from the closure of Wuhan on January 23 to January 29, 2020 when she left Beijing to return to Japan. The name of this article was given by a colleague from the China Japan Friendship Hospital when she rushed to Wuhan to fight the epidemic.
"I know that there are still some people in Japan who know little about China, and even have some misunderstandings and prejudices. After I went to China myself, I found that the actual situation is different from what I imagined. The Chinese people are very enthusiastic. The more you know about China, the more you think about it. I want to tell you what China I see, so that more Japanese can understand the real world China, even a little, is also a very important thing for China Japan friendship. "
She said that medical work has no national boundaries. As a medical worker, she hopes to act as a bridge across national boundaries. "There are Chinese Pandas' Xiangxiang 'in Tokyo and Japanese volunteers' Xiangxiang' in Beijing. We are all witnesses of China Japan friendly relations."
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Dialogue with Japanese nurses who have hand drawn Chinese epidemic prevention cartoons: the persistence of Chinese colleagues inspired me
Collected and written by Weng Anqi, a trainee reporter in Nandu