On September 22, the 2025 "the Belt and Road" annual candidate Chinese characters were unveiled, which are respectively "Kai, Yong, Lian, Ji, Wen, Rong, Sheng, Shun and Cheng". Starting today, the online voting channel will be opened on the China Youth Daily client, and the final annual Chinese characters will be generated from these 9 candidate characters. On the same day, the press conference of the 2025 "the Belt and Road" Annual Chinese Character Release Activity jointly held by the China Public Relations Association and the Chongqing Yongchuan District People's Government was held in Beijing. The theme of this activity is "All Rivers Embrace Civilization", and relevant experts and mainstream media are invited to introduce the 2025 "the Belt and Road" Annual Chinese Character Release Activity. It was announced at the meeting that the 2025 "the Belt and Road" Annual Chinese Character Release Activity will be held in Yongchuan District, Chongqing on September 28. At that time, youth representatives from countries such as Russia, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, and Laos will participate in the launch event, using Chinese characters as a bridge to engage in cultural exchanges and keep friendship forever in the hearts of young people from various countries. At the press conference, Wang Daping, Executive Vice President and Secretary General of the China Public Relations Association, and Zhang Xiaomei, Standing Committee Member and Minister of Propaganda of Yongchuan District Committee, delivered speeches respectively. Wang Daping said that he would give full play to the leading, influence and service role of public relations with Chinese characteristics in the new era, especially build a cooperation platform for exchanges between Chinese and foreign youth with the Chinese character culture as the link, and guide young people to become active participants in the "the Belt and Road" civilization mutual learning and active promoters of people to people. At the event, Chinese music masters and tea masters from Yongchuan brought a wonderful performance of instrumental music and long mouthed teapots called "One Tea, One Bamboo, One Look at Yongchuan". A long mouthed copper pot with a slender mouth over 70 centimeters in length, effortlessly flowing in the hands of a master. Even if separated by a few meters, the boiling water in the pot can be accurately poured into a tea cup. After passing through the long mouth, the temperature drops to 80 ℃~90 ℃, and the famous green tea Yongchuan Xiuya instantly emits a fragrant tea aroma. As the sub center of Chongqing, Yongchuan is located in the main axis of Chengdu Chongqing development and the intersection of Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou. It is accelerating the construction of an international opening hub in western Chongqing, creating a common line node of the main channel from south to west of Chongqing, accelerating the rise of intelligent manufacturing, digital economy, science, technology, film and television and other industries, gathering 19 vocational colleges and 200000 vocational teachers. It is a famous vocational education city in China, and increasingly becomes a thriving hot spot for skills training and vocational education cooperation of the "the Belt and Road" partners. The event will be held in Songgai Ancient Town, which is the first town in Chongqing along the Yangtze River. It is not only a famous historical and cultural town in China, but also one of the most well preserved millennium ancient towns in Chongqing. It is reported that the "the Belt and Road" annual Chinese character release activity has been successfully held for 8 times since 2016, and this year is the 9th. The annual Chinese characters of previous years include "harmony, integration, novelty, cooperation, mutual assistance, communication, trust, and benefit", which have received widespread attention both domestically and internationally and have had a wide-ranging impact. The event aims to use a Chinese character to condense and jointly build the spiritual core of the "the Belt and Road", promote the international spread of Chinese culture, and enhance the cultural identity and cooperation consensus of the "the Belt and Road" countries. (New Society)