On November 21 local time, Vice Premier Wang Yang, who is on an official visit to Slovenia, attended the local Slovenian Food Day in Ljubljana with Prime Minister Miroslav Cerar and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Dejan Židan of Slovenia.

Wang Yang and his delegation arrived early at the Trnovo Primary School in the capital Ljubljana on November 21, and were warmly received by Cerar, Židan and Principal Coco Nicole as well as teachers and students. Some students extended warm welcomes to Wang Yang in Chinese.

Wang Yang, Cerar and Židan had the local traditional breakfast together with the students. Wang Yang sat at the table with the students and talked with them sincerely.

In his speech, Cerar thanked Wang Yang for taking the time out of his tight schedule to attend the Slovenian Food Day, which is a project to care for the next generation. The Slovenian government carried out this project with the purpose of promoting a healthy diet for primary and secondary school students as well as popularizing domestic quality agricultural produce.

Wang Yang gave a passionate speech. He said to the students that I am very glad to be with you. Children are the buds of a nation and students are the future of a nation. To ensure that the students can develop into the pillars of the nation, good breakfast and sufficient nutrition are very important. The Slovenian government celebrates the Slovenian Food Day every year. It is a good project for the people's livelihood that benefits future generations with present efforts, and should be learned. China is a big country, and many children in the poverty areas still have no access to such quality breakfast as we have today. The Chinese government has provided nutritional diet subsidy for 26 million registered students in 680 poor counties, ensuring that their breakfast is nutritious, healthy and sanitary, and will continue to enhance the work in this regard.

During the event, the students of the school performed the Slovenian folk dances and sang the Chinese song "Selling the Glutinous Balls", and introduced in Chinese the Slovenian traditional breakfast and its differences from the Chinese breakfast. The students invited Wang Yang to watch the local centenarians and students preparing breakfast and to make honey bread together with them. The two sides interacted closely in a warm atmosphere, with laughers from time to time. Before Wang Yang left, the student representatives presented him with the local special food gingerbread, in the hope that it would bring wonderful memories to the distinguished Chinese guest. Wang Yang wished the students good health and encouraged them to learn Chinese well and carry forward the friendship between China and Slovenia.

The Slovenian Food Day is a national event of Slovenia held on November 21 every year, and has been marked for seven consecutive years. The Slovenian government and people attach great importance to it, and primary and secondary schools around the country all hold related activities on that day.

Trnovo Primary School offers the interest class of Chinese language and culture for the first to sixth grades and the selective course of Chinese language for the seventh to ninth grades. Altogether about 150 students in the school attend this class or take this selective course of Chinese.