You're listening to a special edition of Roundtable.
I'm Huyang.
The audio drama Echoes of Koolang aired on Roundtable has enthralled our listeners in recent months, curious about the news stories of Koolang written by the younger generation.
Up next, the live event from Koolang, located in Fujioh City, Fujian Province in the southeastern part of China, the centigrade friendship between Chinese and American communities in Koolang
has blossomed anew, celebrating people-to-people exchanges between China and the U.S.
Hey everyone, my name is Jason Smith.
You can call me Shang-Wung-Jia-wan.
I'm the Tuyang from CGTN, China Global Television Network.
The bond with Koolang 2024, China-U.S.
Youth Festival has attracted the largest group of American youth to visit China this year and is a great opportunity for young people
from both countries to get to know one another and to build friendship on that understanding.
That's right, and President Xi Jinping in his congratulatory letter expressed his hope that we could see more in-depth exchanges between youth from China and the United States.
So in that spirit, we would like to hold a friendly people-to-people dialogue and have a discussion among Koolang's friends, old and new.
So now, please welcome our distinguished guests.
We have Huang Yeh is the band director and music instructor at the Jazz Academy of Jazz at the Lincoln Center Shanghai.
And please also welcome Isaac Philip Gray, student from the Yinshing Academy of Peking University, to represent a younger generation of Americans who has built a bond with China and Chinese people.
And finally, Ellen McKinnis has agreed to join us and she is the lead researcher at the Koolang tourism and culture and co-founder of Koolang's friends.
So we have quite a line-up today.
Let's begin the conversation with the work that we can all relate it to.
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