On a sunny morning in early November, young Russian Sinologist David Kolosov, on behalf of 61 young Sinologists from 51 countries, picked up his pen and carefully wrote each Chinese character stroke by stroke on paper, hoping to share with President Xi Jinping the experiences and insights gained through China studies.
"In this digital era, handwritten lines show the authenticity of communication, and allow the recipient to feel the human touch between the words," he said.
The authors of the letter were invited to attend the 2025 World Chinese Language Conference held in Beijing about two weeks ago. The three-day event was attended by around 5,000 people from over 160 countries.
"We (young Sinologists) are not foreigners who only know how to say a few phrases in Chinese. Many of us are studying and living here, researching both today's China and its past, and we want President Xi to know this," Kolosov said.
That is why they decided to write a letter to the
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