On September 28, Chinese President Xi Jinping met the Director-General of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Audrey Azoulay in Beijing. Xi
expressed that China has always supported the work of UNESCO, and together with UNESCO,
has made positive contributions to safeguarding world peace and promoting global
development, adding that the valuable China-UNESCO cooperation should be maintained. He
said that China is willing to work more closely with UNESCO to continuously improve the
capacity for and level of heritage protection, and promote exchanges, mutual learning and coop
among different civilizations, in order to contribute to world peace and facilitate the building
of a community with a shared future for humanity.
ii) Also on September 28, Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Audrey
Azoulay, Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), attended the award ceremony of the UNESCO Prize for Girls' and
Women's Education 2023 in Beijing on Thursday. Peng Liyuan is also a UNESCO special
envoy for the advancement of girls' and women's education.
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