By Gu Huaxia

Recently, the 9th ‘Sister Cities Painting’ International Youth Painting Exhibition Nantong station was held in Hai’an. Youth representatives from China, Britain, Korea and South Africa attended the event.

As an important brand of Jiangsu international cultural exchange, ‘Sister Cities Painting’ has been successfully held for 8 batches since it was established in 2016. It covers more than 100 sister cities in more than 50 countries and nearly 3,000 schools in Jiangsu Province. It has attracted more than 200 thousand youths around the world to participate. The number of submitted artworks has exceeded 300,000 over the past years. It has become an important platform for domestic and foreign youths to ‘make friends through paintings and forge bonds through art’.

The Nantong station event exhibited more than 180 excellent domestic and foreign artworks from the previous sister cities painting events.

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“友城绘”国际青少年绘画展南通站举行

180多幅美术作品展出

近日，第九届“友城绘”国际青少年绘画展南通站巡展活动在海安举行。来自中国、英国、韩国及南非的青少年代表参加活动。

作为江苏国际文化交流的重要品牌，“友城绘”活动自2016年创办以来已成功举办八届，覆盖全球50多个国家的100多个友城及全省近3000所学校，吸引了全球超过20万青少年参与，历届报名美术作品数量超30万幅，已成为中外青少年“以画会友、因画结缘”的重要平台。

此次南通站活动共展出历届友城绘活动优秀中外美术作品180多幅。