\u201cCondition of good friends, condition of old wine,\u201d Chinese President Xi Jinping cited a Brazilian proverb to describe the long-running friendship between the Chinese and Latin American people when addressing the Brazilian National Congress during a visit to the South American country in 2014. It was Xi\u2019s first visit to Brazil after assuming the Chinese presidency.<\/p>\n
In the speech, he told stories of people-to-people exchanges between the two countries. He also quoted Brazilian lyricist and novelist Paulo Coelho and mentioned the Brazilian TV series Escrava Isaura, which was quite popular in China in the 1980s.<\/p>\n
\u201cI listened to President Xi\u2019s speech at the Congress in 2014,\u201d said Fausto Pinato, president of the Brazil-China Parliamentary Front of the Brazilian National Congress. \u201cIn addition to the cooperation between the two countries in diplomacy and trade, he also mentioned plenty about Brazilian culture, such as Brasilia\u2019s architecture, President Kubitschek\u2019s words, Brazilian TV series and a Brazilian journalist.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis knowledge of Brazil made us proud,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Cultural exchanges are a crucial pillar of interaction for China and Latin America, two great civilizations. Xi has repeatedly stressed that people-to-people amity is vital to sound state-to-state relations.<\/p>\n
In fact, while still a local official, Xi was engaged in cooperation between China and Latin America.<\/p>\n
In 1996, Xi, then deputy secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Fujian Provincial Committee, visited Brazil for the first time. He flew to Fortaleza, the state capital of Ceara in northeastern Brazil, and signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a sister province\/state relationship between East China\u2019s Fujian province and Ceara.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember spending New Year\u2019s Day 1996 on the road \u2026 There is some serendipity between me and the city,\u201d Xi recalled when attending the BRICS summit in Fortaleza in 2014.<\/p>\n
China has established approximately 180 sister-city partnerships with 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, which illustrates their ever-flourishing cultural and people-to-people exchanges. In May last year, Fortaleza established a sisterly relationship with Xiamen, a coastal city in Fujian where Xi used to serve as deputy mayor. The sister cities are known as the \u201cBRICS Twin Cities\u201d because both have hosted BRICS summits.<\/p>\n
In recent years, the platforms for people-to-people and cultural exchanges between China and Latin America have become increasingly diverse, from the China-Latin America Cultural Exchange Year and the Latin American and Caribbean Art Season to the \u201cBridge of the Future\u201d China-Latin American Young Leaders Training Campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe rich cultures and arts of China and Latin America bloom like splendid flowers on each other\u2019s vast land, pushing the mutual learning between the Chinese and Latin American civilizations to a new high,\u201d Xi said when attending the closing ceremony of the China-Latin America Cultural Exchange Year in 2016 in Peru.<\/p>\n
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