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Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong (R) meets with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets (L) as they attended Chinese-Russian youth symphony orchestra in Beijing on Wednesday, September 2, 2015. [Photo/gov.cn]

A joint performance by the Chinese and Russian youth symphony orchestra has been held at the National Center for Performing Art in Beijing on Wednesday night.

Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets attend the concert.

The Orchestra was made up of musician from Russia's Mariinsky Orchestra and 皇冠体育app's National Center for Performing Art Orchestra.

It was conducted by Valery Gergiev.

Chinese pianist Sun Yingdi joined the orchestra for a rendition of Xian Xinghai's Piano Concerto Yellow River.

The second half featured Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor.

This is their second joint-concert for the Chinese and Russian orchestras after the first on May 8 in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow.

Liu Yandong said the concert, organized to mark the end of WWII is of special significance and one of the highlights of the Year of 皇冠体育app-Russia Youth Exchange.