On Nov 9th, 2013, CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin paid a short visit to Tijuana, Mexico, and met with Mr. Francisco Arturo Vega de Lamadrid, the governor of Baja-California. She also met and had a 3-hour discussion with Mr. Carlos Bustamante Anchondo, the current mayor of Tijuana, Mr. Jorge Astiazaran Orci, the mayor elect of Tijuana and the entrepreneurs from Baja-California. Mr. Wang Xian, the Chinese Consul-General to Tijuana was present at the above events.
President Li Xiaolin said, since China and Mexico established diplomatic relations in 1972, the non-governmental contacts between the two countries had achieve fruitful results as the same time as the official relations was developing. Mr. Luis Echeverria Nunez and Ernesto Zedillo, the former presidents of Mexico were the old friends of the CPAFFC, both of whom visited China at the CPAFFC’s invitation. Mexico-China Friendship Association and Enlace Economico Cultural Mexico-China kept good cooperative relation with the CPAFFC. When she introducing the accompanying entrepreneurs, President Li Xiaolin said, investment and commercial exchanges were important content of developing non-governmental contacts between China and Mexico. She believed State of Baja-California which neighbored the United States would provide the Chinese private enterprises with good environment for investment and trading, and develop more cooperation projects with the joint efforts of the both sides, so as to benefit the two peoples.
Governor Lamadrid took his post on Nov. 1st, and paid great attention on the first delegation he received. He promised that he would do his best in his 6-year term, to strengthen the exchanges and cooperation between Baja-California and China, in fields of economy, trading, culture and local authorities,
