Beijing Women's Federation

The year 2022 has been extraordinary. Surmounting the challenges of the COVID-19 epidemic, Beijing hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics Games. The event sent the world a message of our times — Together for a Shared Future.

Beijing Women's Federation and the Foreign Affairs Office of the Beijing Municipal People's Government hosted an online activity to promote family harmony on the occasion of International Day of Families, which fell on May 15. The activity provides an exchange platform for Chinese and foreign families by holding activities through a mini-program on WeChat and sharing bilingual short videos. Beijing NGO Network for International Exchanges, Beijing People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Beijing International Peace Culture Foundation and Beijing Radio and Television Station (BRTV) gave great support to the activity.

Poster for the activity One World One Family Together for a Shared Future

The mini-program has two sections which encourage users to share their poem-reading performances and fitness journals. The Beijing Radio and Television Station will produce radio programs for families participating in the activity and broadcast them through its sports and foreign language channels.

Chinese and foreign families read poems in the short videos.

Short videos with bilingual subtitles were produced for six families living in Beijing. The families read poems in the clips, displaying family culture of different countries.

• Witnessing Winter Olympics

Chen Lu, China's first figure skating world champion, and her daughter recited Lin Huiyin's poem You Are the April of This World, expressing the joy of love and eternal hope. Another figure skating world champion Zhang Dan read Let's Seek a Lamp for her daughter. The work, written by renowned poet Gu Cheng, reveals innocence and aspirations through the eyes of children.

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea. Lee Seon Ah, Counselor of the Republic of the Korea Embassy in China, shared a video in which her daughter read a classical Chinese poem Home Coming, conveying pursuit of mutual understanding between the Chinese and South Korean people and yearning for building beautiful families.

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The success in hosting the Games was the result of the efforts and wisdom of people working on different fronts. Wang Yi, a host with BRTV, and Dong Jing, a scientific and technological worker, who stood fast at their posts during the event, extoled the happiness brought by their family through two poems, The Home and Springtime.

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The spirit of the Winter Olympics connects the international community as one global family. The family of Gensini Chiara (Chinese name: Zhang Jiali), living in Beijing, was an honoree of the Capital’s Most Beautiful Family. They recited the poem The Family both in Chinese and Italian. They expressed the warmth they felt in the city and their expectations for the next Winter Olympics, which will be held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.