REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BEIJING -- Students from across the Asia-Pacific engaged in a dialogue with APEC Leaders, regional experts and business executives presented their vision for the future during the 2014 APEC Leaders’ Week.

Two separate youth programs, the 2014 APEC Youth Program, hosted by the All-China Youth Federation, and the APEC Voices of the Future Program, brought together young leaders from across the Asia-Pacific to represent the views of the future generation on key APEC issues.

University students from the 2014 APEC Youth Program presented a set of policy recommendations on various topics of the APEC agenda, including people-to-people connectivity and the internet economy, which was delivered to APEC Senior Officials. 

"We are still the creatures of social media and pop culture but we care about economics and international relations,” said Han Xiaomeng, a student at Tsinghua University in Beijing who spoke at the opening ceremony of the 2014 APEC Youth Program, as cited from the press release, Wednesday, November 12.