A performance is staged at the opening ceremony of the "Bond with Kuliang: 2024 China-U.S. Youth Festival" in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 24, 2024.  (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)

The "Bond with Kuliang: 2024 China-U.S. Youth Festival," which opened on Monday, concluded here on Friday in Fuzhou of southeast China's Fujian Province. It is co-organized by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the Fujian Provincial People's Government, and the All-China Youth Federation. More than 200 American youth and over 300 of their Chinese counterparts attended the event.

Kuliang, or Guling in Mandarin, is situated on the outskirts of Fuzhou. Since 1886, people from more than 20 countries, including Britain, France and the United States, began to build villas in Yixia Village in Kuliang to spend the summer, fostering a harmonious coexistence with local villagers and thus contributing to the enduring "Kuliang stories."

Guests look on as a Chinese artist paints on a fan at a youth fair, also the exhibition and performance of Fujian intangible cultural heritage during the "Bond with Kuliang: 2024 China-U.S. Youth Festival" in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)

Guests display stamps they collected during the "Bond with Kuliang: 2024 China-U.S. Youth Festival" in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 24, 2024.  (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)

Guests watch a dance performance "Fuxi (Blessings)" during the "Bond with Kuliang: 2024 China-U.S. Youth Festival" in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 27, 2024. (Xinhua/Qin Lang)

Chinese and American youths share their experience at the closing meeting of the "Bond with Kuliang: 2024 China-U.S. Youth Festival" in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 28, 2024.  (Xinhua/Qin Lang)

Chinese artist Lin Weixing (R) introduces a silver ornament of the She ethnic group for guests at a youth fair, also the exhibition and performance of Fujian intangible cultural heritage during the "Bond with Kuliang: 2024 China-U.S. Youth Festival" in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 26, 2024.  (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)

Guests attend a Taichi class during the "Bond with Kuliang: 2024 China-U.S. Youth Festival" in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Qin Lang)

Guests plant a tree during the "Bond with Kuliang: 2024 China-U.S. Youth Festival" in Kuliang, Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 24, 2024.  (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)