China Development Youth Forum

Development Strategy

How We Want to Develop

Since its inception in the summer of 2007, China Development Youth Forum believes in the potential of youth and the power of the Internet technology. Established and run by a group of passionate and young college students, CDYF aims to raise the public awareness of China development issues among the youth of U.S. and China, and even the world. CDYF starts from an Internet-based interest group, and is going to complete its formal non-profit entity registration by the end of 2007. Supported by international staff team with expanding regional offices in China and the U.S. CDYF's ultimate goal is to become the premier organization that informs and educates the American and Chinese young students about China development issues, as well as offering unparallel opportunities and resources.

 

Core Values

What We Believe and Intend to Achieve

Public Education

We intend to serve as a vehicle of public education to better inform the American and Chinese college students about the complicated nature of China's social development issues, and to engage students in critical and innovative thinkings in working out resolutions to make a difference. We try to expand our influence and impact via modern Internet technologies and traditional community outreach activities.

Leadership Development

CDYF identifies potential student leaders committed to careers of advancing China's social development, and provides unparallel opportunities and resources to foster stronger leadership skills among talented and accomplished youth leaders from two countries with interest and passion on China's social development issues.

Network Building

CDYF connects like-minded college students who are passionate about social development issues in China, offers the opportunity for American and Chinese college students to work together for a same meaningful cause, and strenghthens the bilateral understanding beween the youth of the two countires. We are taking our own efforts to make the world a better place to live, as well as to contribute to the constructive development of U.S.-China relations, which is arguably the most important bilateral relations in the twentieth-first century.

 

Operations Structure

How We Work as a Team

Currently, China Development Youth Forum is in the process of filing its legal registration files to be a U.S. government-recognized 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Student officers around the U.S. devote their free time to programming planning and implementation through Internet communication. While formally a U.S.-registered student organization, China Development Youth Forum has a strong presence in China, and its China affairs is managed by a vibrant student leadership team registered as an official student organization in the prestigous Peking University. Our China branch is led by Tom Xianzhong Chen.

CDYF is also seeking passionate student leaders to expand our network by establishing school chapters worldwide. Please contact Hao Yan for details about how to set up a chapter on you campus.

 

Our Areas of Focus

What We Care

According to the UN Millennium Development Goals and China's most recent five-year development plan, we have decided to focus on the following areas in the start-up stage of our organization.

1) Education: improving accessibility to qualified rural education, promoting higher education reform and facilitating the international exchange and dialogue on China’s education issues;

2) Sustainable development: in areas of environment protection, energy strategy and resource conservation;

3) Public health, such as HIV/AIDS and disease prevention and control;

4) Poverty deduction: enhancing economic opportunity for the underprivileged;

5) Alleviating social inequality and strengthening legal justice.

 

Program Update

What We Will Do In the Near Future

Within the next two months, CDYF is going to establish the first-ever free online China Development Resource Database, publish the debut edition of the CDYF "Dialogue" newsletter, outreach to various universities and organizations to promote our website, and launch the operations in our headquarter in Dartmouth College.

Our ongoing and upcoming project includes:
- Website Construction
- Publication of Electronic Newsletters
- Global Network of China Development Young Leaders
- Enhancement of Online Facebook Group
- Launch of Public Education Program
- Launch of Public Participation Program
- Establishment of the Dartmouth Operations Headquarter

 

Program Pipeline

What We Want to Achieve Step by Step

Short-term
- Website Construction
- Publication of Electronic Newsletters
- Global Network of China Development Young Leaders
- Enhancement of Online Facebook Group
- Launch of Public Education Program
- Launch of Public Participation Program
- Establishment of the Dartmouth Operations Headquarter

Long-term

- China development curriculum design
- Annual conference
- Fundraising activities
- CDYF Summer Young Scholar Program

The program page will be updated soon with more details. Please check back for updates.

Last updated on 05-23-2009
Photo Credit: Yimei Zou