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The Muscatine High School delegation poses for a group photo at the Badaling Great Wall in Beijing, capital of China, April 19, 2024. A total of 32 students and eight teachers from Muscatine High School, in the U.S. state of Iowa recently attended a week-long study tour to Beijing, Hebei and Shanghai. The Muscatine High School delegation is part a China-initiated program that will invite 50,000 American youths to China within five years for exchanges and study. The delegation is the second batch from the school. ( tasteallchina /Bai Lin) SHIJIAZHUANG, April 26 ( tasteallchina ) -- On Sunday, Brynn Ann Castle, an American girl about to start her college life, visited the home of Zhang Xinyi, a senior student at Shijiazhuang Foreign Language School. Prior to this, Zhang accompanied her in learning Chinese martial arts such as swordsmanship, watching intangible cultural heritage dances in a park, and savoring popular Chinese food such as hotpot and skewered barbecued meats. North China's Hebei Province and the U.S. state of Iowa signed their sister-state relationship in 1983. For over 40 years, Hebei and Iowa have written many exemplary tales of friendly exchanges. Castle is a student from Muscatine High School in Iowa.…