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"Before I came to China, I thought I would see a lot of old (1) and everybody doing kung fu," Bamba Vakaramoko said. "But it turned out to be not true."
The 24﹣year﹣old from Côte d'Ivoire is a student at Beijing's North China University of Technology. He said that he (2) learn about China by watching movies like The Shaolin Temple. But he got to see the country's (3) colors by living in it.
"There are traditional buildings, but also high-rise skyscrapers (摩天大楼)." He was impressed by the high-speed trains. It only (4) half an hour from Beijing to Tianjin.
Like Vakaramoko, Netika Limbu from the UK also (5) China after she came to study medicine at Jinggangshan University in Ji'an, Jiangxi.
She had never been to China before that. After living in Ji'an for five years, Limbu has learned about China's (6) .
"Farmland has been changed into semi-urban (半城市的) areas;facilities (设施) such as fitness parks and footbridges make people's lives easier;people are getting a lot from technology like mobile payment. All of these changes have (7) pulling people out of poverty (贫困)," Limbu said.
Young people are also trying to improve people's understanding of their home country.
Luo Xiangquan, a Chinese college student from Shanghai, (8) an international summer program in the Netherlands. He said his roommate from the US didn't know what China's capital is.
Since then, Luo has been using every chance to explain China to others (9) "our voice could be better heard and understood".
"Only by having more people-to-people (10) can we show the world a real China," Luo said.