The RH-negative blood type is a very rare blood type in China and is known as "panda blood". Patients with this blood type have a hard time finding the source of blood. Ruslan, a Kazakh student, has this blood type. While studying at Hainan University, Ruslan has participated in unpaid blood donation twice a year since 2009, contributing to the relief of some Chinese patients. When his Chinese friends praised Ruslan, he said, "I feel that I should help others, and donating blood is what I should do." ”

-- "Promoting People's Friendship for a Better Future: Speech at Nazarbayev University" (September 7, 2013)

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"Panda blood", which is the RH negative blood type, is a rare blood type. In addition to the blood group system of A, B, O, AB, there is also another set of RH blood types, which are divided into positive and negative, and the vast majority of them are RH positive blood types. In Europeans and Americans, the proportion of people with RH negative blood type is about 15%, while in Asians, the proportion of RH negative blood type is only 0.3%-0.4%.

The protagonist of the story, Ruslan, a Kazakh student at Hainan University, has this rare blood type. In 2009, he entered Hainan University. Ruslan said that because of his young age, he donated less blood in his own country, and only when he came to China did he know that his blood type was so special. After coming to China, he saw that his classmates were donating blood, so he also joined in, participating in unpaid blood donation twice a year, donating "panda blood" to solve the urgent needs of Chinese patients. Ruslan said it was a great honor for him to be praised by the Chinese President as an envoy of friendly exchanges between the Chinese and Kazakh peoples, and said: "I am very willing to continue to make my own contribution to the friendly exchanges between China and Kazakhstan!" ”

Ruslan's experience in China can be described as a microcosm of the picture of friendly exchanges between China and Kazakhstan. According to Kazakh statistics, there are currently 11,200 Kazakh students studying in China, and many of them have become "envoys of China-Kazakhstan friendship" as Xi Jinping said. Sister Kamila and Naya, international students from Xi'an Jiaotong University, "did not understand Chinese at all" when they first came to China from Kazakhstan, but now they are "more familiar with Xi'an than their hometown city, and sometimes they have to ask for directions everywhere when they return to their hometown." Masimov, who was appointed prime minister of Kazakhstan in 2014, is also an "old student" who can speak fluent Chinese. At the same time, more and more Chinese are also stepping on the soil of Kazakhstan. Two skilled workers from Ningxia, Wang Kun and Lan Zhixue, overcame many dangers and obstacles to solve major technical problems for the Atyrau refinery, one of the three major oil refineries in Kazakhstan, with superb skills and serious attitude, which is known as a good story in the local area. When they returned home, the Kazakh side specially organized a grand farewell ceremony at the airport. In an interconnected world, similar "friendship envoys" between China and Kazakhstan have become a flowing landscape.

Young people are the new force of people-to-people friendship. Young people have similar interests and like-mindedness, and they are the most talkative, and they are the easiest to form pure friendships. Xi Jinping's story of "panda blood" not only shows the friendship between the Chinese and Kazakh peoples, but also hopes that the young people of the two countries will become ambassadors of friendship and contribute their youth and strength to the development of the China-Kazakhstan comprehensive strategic partnership.

In this speech, Xi Jinping quoted the poem of the great Kazakh poet and thinker Abai Kunanbayev to encourage young people, "The world is like an ocean, the times are like a strong wind, the former waves are like brothers, the back waves are brothers, the wind embraces the back waves and pushes the front waves, ancient and present." From "half a century of searching for his mother" to "panda blood", Xi Jinping told these two touching stories of people-to-people exchanges between China and Kazakhstan, precisely to illustrate that "the friendship between countries lies in people-to-people relations", and the key to people-to-people friendship lies in the exchanges between young people.