Vice-Premier Liu Yandong expressed her wishes to youths from China and abroad at the Belt and Road Initiative forum on youth creativity and heritage in Changsha, Hunan province, on April 17.

Liu encouraged young people to work for heritage protection, entrepreneurship and innovation, which is conducive to people-to-people exchanges among countries along the Belt and Road Initiative route.

The vice-premier also hoped that young people from every country can appreciate the world with shared views, promote exchanges and harmonious co-existence of different civilizations, and contribute to a community of common destiny for all mankind.

Youth representatives from 65 countries along the route of the Belt and Road, UNESCO officials, experts, and diplomatic envoys to China attended the forum.