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PORT MORESBY, Nov. 16-- While meeting with youth delegates to APEC voices of the Future from other countries and regions, Yao Xuanyu felt nervous but excited. Port Moresby is the first destination outside Sichuan province in southwest China, where the 16-year-old middle school student travelled to. "Everything is new to me," said the girl from Mianning Middle School, flushing. Yao is among the youth delegates to the APEC voices of the Future, which is a key platform at the annual APEC Summit for the young people from the participating economies to have dialogues. A Youth Declaration will be drafted after their three-day exchanges from Tuesday to Thursday, which will be reviewed by APECBusiness Advisory Council and the APEC leaders, said Zhongli Junren, head of the Chinese youth delegates. Fan Yingjie, 26, is one of two Chinese youth delegates involved in the procedure of declaration drafting. He told Xinhua that he sometimes travelled to the impoverished areas in China. "So my proposal to include in the declaration is broader distribution of the benefit of digital development," he said. Another delegate Jia Zijian is a 23-year-old student in Tsinghua University, majoring in public policy. "What I am interested in is how to achieve common prosperity with the help of technology and education," he said. Ankush Ajay Wagle with the Institute of South Asian Studies is from Singapore. The 26-year-old researcher believes that the dialogues will change the way they think and the way they do things. | 
