Recently, the inauguration ceremony of the Peony Culture Overseas Communication Station (Oryol Site) and the launch event for the youth peony painting collection campaign titled "Stardust as Our Promise: Together We Paint Our Youth" were grandly held at the Railway Workers' Cultural Palace (Patriots' Center) in Oryol, Russia.

　　This event, jointly hosted by the Propaganda Department of the Heze Municipal Committee, the Propaganda Department of the Dingtao District Committee, and the Oryol State No.1 Middle School in Russia, echoes the "China-Russia Education Year" initiative. With the theme of "Narrating Friendship, Launching a Platform, and Painting a Bright Future Together", it adopts a combination of "ceremony + exhibition + experience" to promote cultural exchanges between the two places from periodic activities to normalized and institutionalized platforms, injecting new impetus into deepening local people-to-people exchanges between China and Russia.

　　At the event, a video titled "Peony's Voice from Space" was screened, showcasing the first outcomes of peony culture's space-based outreach. It shared insights from the team at Oryol State First Secondary School on their visit to Heze for the 2026 Heze Peony International Communication Forum and educational exchange program. Also shown was a message video recorded by students from Heze Shandong University Affiliated Experimental School for their paired counterparts from Oryol who visited Heze in April this year-capturing youthful voices that conveyed the warm friendship between youth across vast distances.