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20:35, August 16, 2007 |
Chinese President Hu Jintao, addressing the ongoing summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Bishkek on Thursday, called on SCO members to expand cultural and educational cooperation and facilitate youth exchanges.
In the address, Hu proposed that SCO members learn from one another and promote equal exchanges between different cultures so as to consolidate the social basis for the generations-long friendship between SCO members.
The Chinese president said half of the world''''s population, which covers more than 300 ethnic groups, lives in SCO member and observer countries and has created splendid and age-old cultures in history.
"We should learn from one another''''s advanced aspects to overcome our shortcomings and make common progress," he said.
SCO member countries should engage in all-around exchanges and cooperation in such fields as science, culture, education, sports and healthcare, and make special efforts to create conditions for the exchanges between their youths, Hu said.
Apart from other scholarship programs set up under bilateral agreements, China will establish a separate scholarship project to sponsor 20 students from its five fellow SCO members -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, to study in China every year.
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