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The Australia-China Youth Association (ACYA) is an international non-governmental organization that aims to strengthen ties between young people in Australia and China through bilateral initiatives in the areas of Careers, Education, and People-to-People Exchange. ACYA is a volunteer-run nonprofit organization that takes the form of a grassroots community comprising over 5000 members spread across 17 university-based Chapters in Australia, including all Group of Eight universities, and 5 city-based Chapters in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hong Kong, and Taipei. ACYA's major sponsors are the Australian National University and the Australia-China Council of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia).〔http://www.dfat.gov.au/acc/grants/successful-recipients2013-14.html〕 ACYA was one of only three youth organisations to be commended by name in the Australian Government's 2012 'Australia in the Asian Century' White Paper.〔http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/verve/_resources/australia-in-the-asian-century-white-paper.pdf#page=109〕 ==Activities== ACYA Chapters run hundreds of social, academic, and professional events each year and create communities for Australian and Chinese young people to discover each other's cultures, languages, and perspectives, and forge lasting friendships that bridge the cultural divide.〔http://uqnews.drupal.uq.edu.au/article/2013/07/uq-students-build-australia-china-networks〕 〔http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/news-events/video/hon-julie-bishop-mp-address-anu-australia-china-youth-association-22-october-200-5#.U7qH-n8aySM〕 ACYA administers significant educational scholarship programs that enable scores of Australian students annually to learn Chinese language at Renmin University of China and National Taiwan Normal University, and a 2-year MBA scholarship for an Australian student to study at the Renmin University School of Business.〔http://mbaen.rbs.org.cn/imba-partnerships.php〕 ACYA also manages innovative cross-cultural internship programs with Austrade, (Peking University Australian Studies Centre ), Tsinghua University, Asialink, Australia China Business Council, (Australian Chamber of Commerce in Beijing ), (China Policy ), and (Thirst NGO ). 〔http://pkuasc.fasic.org.au/about-the-program/〕 〔http://www.asiaoptions.org/charlton-martin-and-the-acya-austrade-internship-program-in-taipei/〕 〔http://thirst4water.org/en/about-us/partners/〕 ACYA's marquee event is the annual Bilateral Youth Leadership Workshop (BYLW), which brings together ACYA leaders from across Australia and China for intensive workshops on leadership in the Australia-China space, and has been hailed by Xinhua as "fortifying the fortunes and feelings of the two key trading partners...while also ensuring the tidal ebbs and flows of politics and power plays in no way hinder the growing ties between Chinese and Australian youths."〔http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-08/26/c_133585672.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australia China Youth Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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