ACELS: The Hybrid Project Team Connecting Emerging Australia-China Leaders

Amid fresh coronavirus outbreaks, snap lockdowns and increased uncertainty among young Australians and Chinese, The 13th Australia-China Emerging Leader’s Summit went ahead between July 15 and 18, 2021. Join Asia Options China as we sit down with Yunrui Deng – ACELS 13 Chengdu Logistics Director and former ACYA Chengdu Chapter President – and Angus Heida – ACELS 13 Adelaide Project Manager – to find out all the behind-the-scenes details of what it took to pull off ACELS 13 and how you can join the ACELS 14 Project Team.

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Australia-China Emerging Leaders Summit – Australia Summit 2016 Review

The Australia-China Emerging Leaders Summit (ACELS) is a Summit hosted by the Australia-China Youth Association (ACYA) with a foot in both Australia and China. ACELS began as a formal meeting of minds from the AYCA national executive in Sydney and … Read More

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A look into the ACYA Victoria Bilingual Language Competition

With the ACYA Victoria Bilingual Language Competition (BLC) accepting applications for 2016, Asia Options spoke with last year’s winners Maggie Milne and Nell Chan, to hear about their experiences and discuss how bilingual Victorians can put their Chinese language skills … Read More

ACYA-Peking Uni Australian Studies Centre Internship, Mark Eels shares his experience

Alice Slevison from Asia Options had a chat with her Beijing based China Policy colleague Mark Eels about his experience working as an intern for the ACYA-Peking University Australian Studies Centre Internship Program.   Some background on Mark Mark has completed … Read More

Volunteering with the Australia China Youth Association

  From its humble beginnings at the Australian National University in Canberra to a dynamic network of chapters spanning two diverse countries and an annual bilateral dialogue sponsored by DFAT, the Australia China Youth Association (ACYA) has emerged to play a … Read More