In pics: footprints of CPC early leaders during their youth in Montargis, France (7)

Benoit Digeon, mayor of Montargis, poses with a miniature of a sculpture of a group of Chinese revolutionaries to mark the centennial of the Work-Study Movement during an interview with Xinhua, in Montargis, France, March 22, 2021. Starting in 1919, thousands of progressive young Chinese went to France, where they worked in factories in Paris, Lyon and Montargis to pay for their studies in the European country. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)