Saudi – Chinese Youth Forum

Saudi – Chinese Youth Forum
First Saudi – Chinese Youth Forum set for next month

Riyadh: The Saudi – Chinese Youth Forum (SCYF) will be organized next month in China within the framework of the globally-acclaimed international dialogue initiative launched by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Kind Abdullah in 2008.
This will be the first forum in which 40 young leaders of both genders from Saudi Arabia and China will meet face to face in three different Chinese cities to promote friendship and mutual understanding between the two nations.
Addressing the Saudi participants at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before their departure to China here late Thursday night, Yousef Al-Sadon, deputy Ministry of Economy & Culture Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: This youth forum is the reflection of the vision of Kind Abdullah’s global dialogue initiate “. He added: These young participants are the real wealth Suadi Arabia, and they should be provided with the more opportunities to learn from others.”
This 10-days forum is being organized by the Council of Saudi Chambers (CSC) and the Committee for International Trade (CIT) under the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The SCYF’s preparatory meeting was attended by senior Saudi officials including Omar A. Bahlaiwa, CSC’s secretary general and Samar Fatany, a CIT board member who is also a columnist and radio journalist.
The Saudi delegation to China will be led by Al-Ssaoun, senior official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the SCS including Bahlaiwa, Fatany, Omer B. N. Al-Bunyan and Abdullah F. Al-Sowilam and will also accompany the youth participants.
The forum’s highlights include the participants’ visit to Chinese institutes and landmarks in different cities besides their interaction with young Chinese students in two prominent universities. The focus will be more on cooperation in the area of science, technology, economy and culture, according to Al-Sadoun. The participants will also visit the Shanghai World Expo 2010, where Saudi Arabia has the second largest pavilion.
“The importance of this dialogue for the future of the wider relations between Riyadh and Beijing and its impact on global governance cannot be ruled out,” said Fatany.

The young leaders from Saudi Arabia include Marwah Salem M. Abdujawad, Sara K. Almaeena and Yousuf Najeeb H. Al Bassam.

Other participants are Alaa Hashim A. Al-Hashim, Boshra Abdullah S. Al-Eidy, Rakan Abdulsalam Al-Saadoun, Mohammad Sameer Al-Thaqafi, Mohamad Anwar Al-Shingiti, Lamis Ammar D. Al-Mufti, Sarah A. Al-Khedheiri, Khalid Abdullah H. Masri, Maryam A. A. Al-Seini, Salman Nasser Y. Al-Rashed, Haneen Rayed Kh. Krimly, Dima Ikhwan, Bader A. Al-Hammoud, Saad Melhi Al-Shahrani, Abdullah A. A. Shakhi and Saud Abdullah Al-Zaidi.