The year 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). This year's SCO Summit will be held in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, from August 30 to September 3. In this video, CGTN Stringer talks with Adel, a young Kyrgyz national, to hear her unique bond with Chinese culture.

Adel developed curiosity about Chinese culture through the Chinese game Genshin Impact and Chinese beauty and fashion trends before gradually falling deeply in love with it. She has observed that a growing number of young people in Central Asia are being influenced by Chinese pop culture, and various cultural products are building bridges for cross-border youth exchanges. Adel believes that this emotional connection, seemingly soft, is extremely powerful, and future international cooperation will be built on the friendship born from such connections.