Youth Challenge
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Media Focus | Latin American Youth Learn About China's Poverty Alleviation Experience
2026-02-13Editor's Note: 32 Latin American youth who advanced to the final of the 2025 Poverty Alleviation Challenge came to China for exchange and practice. The study tour activities focused on themes such as poverty alleviation empowered by scientific and technological innovation, accessible social construction, and rural revitalization. By visiting cutting-edge scientific research institutions and on-site practices of rural industries and culture, Latin American youth gained an in-depth understanding of China's exploratory experience in poverty alleviation and sustainable development, enhanced their comprehension of China's development philosophy through on-site observation and mutual learning, and injected new impetus into China-Latin America youth cooperation and the sharing of poverty alleviation experience. This article is a report from the Portuguese Channel of Xinhua News Agency.
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Media Focus | Latin American Youth Understand China's Poverty Alleviation Experience in China
2026-02-13Editor's Note: During the study tour and practice in China of the 2025 Poverty Alleviation Challenge, Latin American young students from Brazil, Peru and Chile systematically understood China's exploratory paths in poverty alleviation and sustainable development by visiting Chinese universities, scientific research institutions and rural areas. Combining theory with practice, the study tour activities guided Chinese and Latin American youth to fully recognize the concrete results and institutional experience of China's poverty alleviation from scheme design to grassroots practice, and further deepened the mutual understanding and mutual learning between Chinese and Latin American youth on development issues. This article is a report from the CGTN Portuguese Channel.
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Media Focus | Guarding Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains to Secure Prosperity: Cili Grand Canyon's Answer to Sustainable Tourism
2026-02-11Editor's Note: During their study tour and practice in China, the Peruvian team of the 2025 Poverty Alleviation Challenge learned in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province about the local practical exploration of promoting the integrated development of agriculture and tourism under the premise of ecological protection. By understanding on the spot the transformation of ecological resources, the mechanism of employment and income increase, and the achievements of rural infrastructure improvement, Chinese and Latin American youth have an intuitive understanding of the comprehensive driving effect of green development on rural revitalization, and a deeper understanding of the development concept that "Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains are Invaluable Assets". This article is a report from the CGTN Spanish website.
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Media Focus | From a "Hollow Village" to a "Happiness Circle": Service Resilience and Spatial Renovation of Cili Village
2026-02-11Editor's Note: During the study tour and practice in China of the winning teams of the 2025 Poverty Alleviation Challenge, the Peruvian team came to Cili County in Hunan Province to experience the vivid practice of rural governance and people's livelihood improvement, and feel the development achievements of transforming the former "hollow village" into a fully functional and conveniently serviced "happiness circle" by improving public service facilities and promoting grassroots governance innovation. In practice, Chinese and Latin American youth have conducted in-depth learning and discussion on China's experience in advancing poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, as well as practical measures centered on improving people's livelihood and enhancing community cohesion. This article is a report from the CGTN Spanish website.
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Media Focus | Gaochun Museum: A New Chapter Painted by the Integration of Ancient and Modern Times
2026-02-11Editor's Note: During the study tour and practice in China of the winning teams of the 2025 Poverty Alleviation Challenge, the Chilean team visited the Gaochun Museum and experienced its rich collection characteristics and the achievements of digital construction. The Gaochun Museum plays an important role in cultural relic collection, exhibition and research, and public education, demonstrating Gaochun's active exploration in protecting and inheriting historical culture, promoting public cultural services and study tour exchanges, and providing an important platform for Chinese and Latin American youth to gain an in-depth understanding of local history and culture and carry out study tour activities in this practice. This article is a report from the CGTN Spanish website.
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Media Focus | Gaochun Ceramic Museum: The Millennium Kiln Fire Illuminates Rural Revitalization
2026-02-11Editor's Note: During their study tour and practice in China, the winning Chilean youth team of the 2025 Poverty Alleviation Challenge visited Gaochun in Jiangsu Province, toured the Gaochun Ceramic Museum and the "Ceramic Town", and carried out on-site learning on the historical inheritance and contemporary expression of Chinese ceramic culture. By closely understanding the cultural connotation of the "State Banquet Porcelain", ceramic making techniques, and the practical exploration of the integration of culture and tourism with study tour experience, they have an intuitive understanding of the practical path of China's excellent traditional culture in upholding integrity and fostering innovation, providing a vivid case for cultural study and exchange between Chinese and Latin American youth. This article is a report from the CGTN Spanish website.
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Media Focus | China-Latin American Youth Visit the Research Institute for Accessibility Development of Tsinghua University: Technology Lets the Visually Impaired "See" the World
2026-02-11Editor's Note: As an important part of the study tour and practice in China for the winning Latin American teams of the China-Latin American Youth Responding to Global Challenges — 2025 Poverty Alleviation Challenge, Latin American youth visited the Research Institute for Accessibility Development of Tsinghua University, conducted visits and exchanges on accessible technology and digital inclusion, and gained an in-depth understanding of China's practical exploration in the fields of scientific and technological innovation and inclusive development. Through on-site learning and interactive exchanges, Latin American youth have formed a more intuitive understanding of how to protect the equal access of vulnerable groups to knowledge and development opportunities in the digital age. This article is a report from the CGTN Portuguese website.
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Media Focus | Peruvian Team's Cultural Exploration in Beijing: From the Majestic Juyong Pass to the Cultural Veins of Tsinghua University, Touching Tradition and Inheritance
2026-02-11Editor's Note: 32 Latin American youth who advanced to the final of the 2025 Poverty Alleviation Challenge gained an in-depth understanding of China's history, culture and the development of higher education through visits to the Juyong Pass of the Great Wall and the campus of Tsinghua University during the Beijing leg of their study tour in China. This study tour aims to take youth exchanges as a link to promote cultural mutual learning between China and Latin America and the exchange of poverty alleviation experience, laying a foundation for mutual learning and cooperation between the two sides on development issues. This article is a report from the CGTN Spanish website.
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Media Focus | Latin American Youth Step Foot on Chinese Soil: What "Poverty Alleviation Answers" Do They Want to Take Away?
2026-02-11Editor's Note: Both the Spanish and Portuguese channels of CGTN provided full coverage of the Beijing leg of the exchange visit to China by the award-winning representatives of the China-Latin American Youth Responding to Global Challenges — 2025 Poverty Alleviation Challenge under the Tsinghua University Center for Latin American Studies. This cross-ocean exchange journey is not only a collision of wisdom between Chinese and Latin American youth, but also a transoceanic transmission of poverty alleviation experience. It links the development paths of China and Latin America with youth as the bridge, and makes the vision of promoting common development take root through mutual learning and exchange. This article is a report from the CGTN Portuguese website.
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Day 7 of the Study Tour in China for Latin American Teachers and Students: Chinese and Brazilian Youth Jointly Explore the Empowerment of Intangible Cultural Heritage for Rural Revitalization in Nanjian
2026-02-06On January 24, 2026, Chinese and Brazilian teachers and students from Tsinghua University's 2025 Poverty Alleviation Challenge and the 10th "Rural Entrepreneurship +" Innovation and Creativity Camp visited Jiangzhiji in Xizhou Ancient Town of Dali. As a core research session specially added by Tsinghua University's "Rural Entrepreneurship +" project to deepen cross-cultural poverty alleviation practices, an intangible cultural heritage (ICH) study tour themed "Mutual Learning in Poverty Alleviation Practices, Youth Walking Hand in Hand" was held. Leveraging the profound cultural heritage of the Bai ethnic group in Xizhou Ancient Town, the study tour group systematically learned about the inheritance context and contemporary expression of traditional crafts through visiting the ICH Museum and participating in traditional papermaking practices
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