Youth have power to shape their own future: UN official

Jayathma Wickramanayake, the United Nations secretary-general's envoy on youth, said youth have the potential and power to shape their own future.

"With more than 1.8 billion young people around the world, our generation has an enormous opportunity to transform our societies, especially as we look to recover better together from the COVID-19 pandemic," she said via video link at a Vision China event on Wednesday.

The event, themed "Young Voices: Global Vision", was held online and offline in Chengdu, Sichuan province.