A two-week cultural exchange program bringing together American and Chinese university students is currently underway in Hengshui, North China's Hebei province, with participants sharing that shared meals, dialect lessons, and face-to-face conversations are forging deep bonds that social media alone could never replicate.

The third "Friendship of HSU and UCM in Summer" program, which runs from May 12 to 24, has brought 12 students and faculty members from the University of Central Missouri (UCM) to collaborate with their peers at Hengshui University.