Harvard students scale the Great Wall
By admin on 2016-03-25

A group of Harvard students brought a better understanding of China and its people back to the US after a one-week trip to the country, which ended on Sunday.

Organized by the World Youth Forum, 27 students from 14 different countries visited government departments, companies, cultural institutions and historical places in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing with Harvard China Trek 2016.

Harvard China Trekers communicated with senior officials and successful businessmen at places such as the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the National Poverty Alleviation Office, leading Chinese enterprise AliBaba, the Yangtze River Delta SME incubator and Chinese mainstream media.

It's Anna Raginskaya's first time at the Great Wall. The second-year MBA student at Harvard Business School was born in Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

Raginskaya bought a scarf at the foot of the Great Wall as it's much colder there than in the center of Beijing, and she's very happy to show it to the group.

She says she was excited to visit and feel the weight of the Great Wall's history in person.

Bassel Akra is a Canadian citizen born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Dubai, UAE and in Montreal.

He says he's happy to join China Trek and hopes he can have more opportunities to communicate with Chinese youth in the future.

Theodora Skeadas, a second-year master's degree student in public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, says that this trip was such a "journey of exploration".

She's reading the book, Henry Kissinger On China, on the bus even though the schedule is quite tight and tiring.

Tobias Cremer is a Germen student at Harvard's Kennedy school. He can't find a word to describe his feelings well, so he picks up the "You Are Here" sticker representing his school. He says that students at the school are glad to learn about different cultures around the world, especially China's.

Roberto Simon, a journalist from Brazil, is also a student at the Kennedy school. In the Forbidden City, he asks a student from Renmin University of China to teach him how to write "Terrific " in Chinese, because he wants to give a thumbs-up to all of the Chinese people.

Mor Sidi, an Israeli, is a Harvard Business School MBA student. She says that she's so proud for the Chinese people after visiting the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, and was much moved by the gorgeous culture and history of China.

Meagan Hill, a Canadian graduate student at Harvard, says she is so impressed that Chinese people are full of confidence, both in their country and themselves and are super optimistic towards the future.

Aria Florant, a student at both the Kennedy school and the Wharton School of Economics, can't wait to climb the Great Wall. She refuses to talk to China Daily until she reaches the top.

When she's asked to describe her feelings when she got to the top of the Great Wall, the first word that comes into her mind is "coordinate". She says that China and the US should coordinate more, not only on the national level, but also among young people.

Sarah Dobney, a Harvard student majoring in public policy, is in China with her husband, Matthew. They talk with big smiles all the way. They say that they are so excited about everything in China.

Ophir Samon, a British student at Stanford University, accompanies his fiancée to the China Trek 2016. Chinese visitors at the Great Wall often come to him and ask to take pictures with him, which surprises the couple. Samon says that they are happy to show up in Chinese people's pictures, and he would like people from different countries to show respect to each other.

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