China-SCO-Eurasia Youth Leaders Dialogue focuses on "a shared future"

Participants attends the China-SCO-Eurasia Youth Leaders Dialogue online on January 18, 2021. (Photo courtesy of Feng Yongbin)

BEIJING, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- A China-SCO-Eurasia Youth Leaders Dialogue was held on Tuesday under the theme of "Together For A Shared Future," the motto of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

The forum, co-organized by China's leading English-language newspaper China Daily and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Committee on Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation, attracted diplomats, sports officials and youth representatives from 22 countries.

Zhang Ming, secretary-general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, addresses the forum via a video link. (Photo courtesy of Feng Yongbin)

"The long-awaited Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games will begin soon. Both the Olympic Spirit championed by the Games and the 'Shanghai Spirit' upheld by the SCO depict the 'concentric circles' of different civilizations and provide a bond of common values for the realization of broad unity among the members of the international community which should be inherited and carried forward," said Zhang Ming, secretary-general of the SCO.

"I think this is also the meaning of the theme of today's dialogue, that is, 'Together for a Shared Future.'"

The attendees also hailed the significance of the 2022 Winter Games being held during the pandemic, and China's contributions to the Olympic movement.