On the evening of September 3, “the Fourth China-Africa Youth Festival”, jointly organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Guangdong Provincial Government, was held at the China Hotel with the theme of "Building dreams of the youth and creating a new era of China-Africa relations". School of International Education (SIE) organized 20 international students from 12 countries including Sierra Leone, Congo, Republic of Congo, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire, Burundi and Nigeria to participate in the event, and they gathered with nearly 100 youth representatives from 51 African member states of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) to discuss about the youth development.

The event was not only a gala, but also a grand gathering of China-Africa cultural exchanges, where there were traditional Yao dances reflecting the profound Chinese culture, Chinese Kung Fu, Tai Chi, paper-cut Cantonese opera, as well as passionate African dances. The international students of GPNU had a friendly exchange with other youth representatives and actively participated in the performance of Tai Chi, Chinese Kung Fu, traditional Yao dances and other traditional cultural performances. The gala, which lasted for more than two hours, achieved the goal of learning about China and promoting the friendship, also enriched the spare time life of the international students.

After the gala, the international students who participated in the event expressed their willingness to pass on the baton of promoting China-Africa friendship and to inject new momentum into the development of the cultural and people-to-people exchanges between China and Africa.