On June 2, during a social practice class at Shenzhen Nanshan Foreign Language School (Group) Gaoxin Middle School, an engaging China-Russia architecture lecture took place. Architecture students from Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) — both Chinese and Russian — co-designed a lesson that introduced middle school students to the architectural worlds of the two countries. We invited the Chinese and Russian students to share their views on each other's architecture, offering a youth perspective that echoes the spirit of the APEC China Year — openness, innovation, cooperation — and building a solid foundation for cross-cultural understanding.