近日，2024世界中文大会在北京举办。中青报·中青网记者采访了青年学者郑彦柯。他用一口流利的中文告诉记者，他以前了解到的中国是非常片面的。学习中文为他打开了一扇了解中国文化的大门。

郑彦柯表示，中国和意大利是两个非常相似的国家，都有很悠久的历史。来到中国后，他发现中国比他想象中发展得更快。手机支付、刷脸支付等让他感到很震惊，因为意大利还在使用现金支付。

郑彦柯呼吁意大利青年多多学习中文，来中国看看。（中青报·中青网记者 李媛媛 实习生 洪羽萱）

Italian Young Representative: Learning Chinese Opened the Door to Understand Chinese Culture

Recently, the 2024 World Chinese Conference was held in Beijing. Reporter from China Youth Daily interviewed the young scholar Iacopo Germolè from Italy. Using fluent Chinese, he told the reporter that his previous understanding of China was very one-sided. Learning Chinese opened a door for him to understand Chinese culture.

Iacopo Germolè stated that China and Italy are two very similar countries, both with long histories. After coming to China, he found that China has developed much faster than he imagined. Mobile payment and facial recognition payment shocked him because Italy is still using cash payments.

Iacopo Germolè suggested Italian youth learning Chinese and coming to China to see for themselves.

By Li Yuanyuan and Hong Yuxuan(intern)/China Youth Daily