Panzhuang launched a new international student practice base in partnership with Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts on July 7.

Yuan Ting, chairman of IEBC Group, which has arranged for nearly 1,000 students from the US to visit China in the past 21 years, said: "Through such people-to-people exchanges, we hope to inject new vitality into China-US friendship. Teenagers are the hope of the future, and their mutual understanding will lay a solid foundation for the development of relations between the two countries."