CPAFFC Vice President Song Jingwu met in CPAFFC with Mr. TAKAMI FUMIO, Vice President of GEN and his delegation on August 31st.
Vice President Song Jingwu spoke highly of the contributions made by TAKAMI FUMIO to supporting the Chinese greening cause for a long time. Vice President Song said that TAKAMI FUMIO insisted in carrying out the tree planting campaign in Datong, Shanxi Province for decades on end and tried to assist the local to improve the severe natural environment so as to improve people’s quality of life, which is regarded as working in contemporary era, while benefiting for future generations. Mr.TAKAMI FUMIO’ kindness behavior made contributions to enhancing the mutual understanding and friendly feelings of the two peoples. In order to commend TAKAMI FUMIO’ outstanding contributions to the people-to-people friendship work of the two countries, China and Japan Friendship Association (CJFA) decided to confer the title of China-Japan Friendship Ambassador to Mr. TAKAMI FUMIO. Vice President Song also hoped that under the inspiration of the spirit of Mr. TAKAMI FUMIO, there will be more people from the two countries involving in the China-Japan friendship cause so as to make the spirit of China-Japan friendship pass from generation to generation.
Mr. TAKAMI FUMIO thanked CPAFFC and CJFA for highly appreciating to his cause. He reviewed the efforts and moving stories during the carrying out the tree planting campaign in Datong and expressed that he would consider the opportunity of being conferred the title of China-Japan Friendship Ambassador as a new start and continuously support the greening environmental protection cause and make efforts for China-Japan friendship.
After the meeting, CJFA held a ceremony and conferred the title of China-Japan Friendship Ambassador to TAKAMI FUMIO. More than 130 people, including Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of CPAFFC, Mr. Liu Deyou, former Vice-Minister of Ministry of Culture, Mr. Liu Hongcai, Vice-Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Mr. Cao Weizhou, the Vice-Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee of National People’s Congress, Mr. YAMAMOTO TAKASHI, Minister of the Embassy of Japan in China and representatives from all walks of life of the two countries, attended the conferring ceremony.
