On April 3rd of the local time, the opening ceremony of Sino-Korea friendship exchange year which celebrates the 20th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between China and Korea was held in Korea National Museum in Soul. If you pay attention to the news when you study in Chinese language school, you may know the minister of the Ministry of Culture of China Cai Wu and minister of Korea Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism Cui Guangzhi greeted the opening of the activity and the vice minister of the Minister of Culture Wang Wenzhang and relevant leaders in Korea attended and addressed the greetings.

There were totally 200 people attended to the reception activity, all of which from the governments, art field and friendly groups of both countries. In his greetings, Cai Wu said that China and Korea are close in geographical location, the people communication and cultural exchanges are also frequent. More importantly, there is a long history in friendly diplomatic history between both countries.

For over twenty years, much progress has been made in the communications and exchanges and cooperation in political, economical and cultural fields. The cooperation of China and Korea has won the support of both peoples. In specific, those who study Mandarin online should know that the Minister of Culture of both nations keep a harmonious cooperative relationship in the fields such as literature, art, animation, game, cultural relics protection and intangible cultural heritages inheritance. Much attention has been paid to the official and folk exchanges to promote the stable development.

In the greetings, Cui Guangzhi expressed his happiness to witness the opening ceremony was held in Seoul to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Sino-Korea diplomatic relationship. In the last year, the number of humanistic exchanges reached six million people and 830 flights came and went between both countries each week, indicating that the relationship between both nations is really close.

Wang Wenzhang said that the communication history of thousands of years between China and Korea proved that culture is the important link to maintain the close relationship between each other. Those who teach Mandarin Chinese may tell you that the performances in the opening ceremony would be the explanation of the cultural relationships and also the display of cultural exchanges and cooperation. With large scale and wide contents, this activity will definitely strengthen the understanding and friendship between both countries, thus promoting the exchanges and cooperation.