Vice President Song Jingwu Attends Project Launching Conference and Delivers a Speech
Project launching conference on “strengthening experience sharing of Chinese urbanization, promoting building of urban cluster along Maritime Silk Road” was held in the auditorium of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on June,15th.
Mr. Chen Yuan, Vice Chairman of the 12th CPPCC?and?Director of Silk Road Planing Research Center, attended the conference?and?made an important speech. Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), was also present?and?delivered a speech concerning the main tasks of CPAFFC?and?this project.
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Photographed by Chen Lei
Vice President Song Jingwu Meets union of Chinese Residing in Japan Delegation
Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), met with the?union?of Chinese Residing in Japan delegation on June, 13.
During the meeting, Vice President Song first expressed warm welcome to the delegation?and?made an introduction about the history?and?the tasks CPAFFC had made during promoting people-to-people cultural exchanges with foreign countries. Vice President Song hoped that overseas Chinese residing in Japan would continue spreading Chinese culture as friendship ambassadors of cultural exchange between China?and?Japan. He also expected them to make use of their own advantages to actively devote themselves to the exchanges?and?cooperation of the two countries?and?make more contributions to the exchanges?and?cooperation between the two countries.
Mr. Liu Hongyou, President of the?union?of Chinese Residing in Japan, thanked Vice President Song for taking time to meet the delegation?and?focused on report on the opportunities?and?challenges the?union?of Chinese Residing in Japan had confronted with. Therefore, President Liu hoped that CPAFFC could give support in the cultural exchange programs of the two countries?and?also expected to establish a long-term relationship with CPAFFC to make more contributions to increasing the mutual understanding?and?friendship between the two peoples.
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Art Exhibition in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of China’s Reform and Opening-up Held in Beijing
Art Exhibition in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of China’s Reform?and?Opening-up, which was co-hosted by China Friendship Institute for International Art Exchanges (CFIIAE)?and?Rong Bao Zhai (Tianjing),?and?was organized by Rong Bao Zhai Painting Institute, was held in the auditorium of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) on June,12th. Calligraphers?and?Painters got together?and?presented their works as gifts to the exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China’s reform?and?opening-up. Mme. Li Xiaolin, President of CPAFFC, Mr. Tang Hui, Deputy General Manager of Rong Bao Zhai, Mme. DOLANA MSIMANG, the Republic of South Africa Ambassador to China, Mme. Shani Calyaneratne Karunaratne, Charge d'affaires of Embassy of the Republic of Sir Lanka in China, Mr. Han Win Aung, Minister Counsellor of Myanmar Embassy in China, Mr. TAKAMOTO FUKUDA, Cultural Counsellor of Japanese Embassy in China, Mr. Wang Heshan, Secretary General of CFIIAE, Mr. Wang Bin,General Manager of Rong Bao Zhai (Tianjing),?and?hundreds of personages from the art circle in Beijing, attended the exhibition.
President Li Xiaolin expressed in her address that reform?and?opening-up records the great journey of common progress of China?and?the rest of the world. China has lived up to its responsibility as a major country. From “bringing in” to “going global”, from WTO accession to the Belt?and?Road Initiative, which meets its people’s aspiration?and?follows the trend of the times. The paintings?and?calligraphy writings exhibited this time were just the good opportunities for the painters?and?calligraphers to sing of beautiful scenery of homeland?and?a better life of Chinese people?and?to express their best wishes of realizing Chinese Dream for a new era.
South Africa Ambassador DOLANA MSIMANG said that, the whole world had witnessed the great changes in China since the beginning of China’s reform?and?opening up forty years ago---once poor China had now become the second biggest economy in the world, which made remarkable achievements.? DOLANA MSIMANG expressed that, South Africa, my homeland,?and?the whole African Continent, both of which had benefited a lot from this policy. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China?and?South Africa. DOLANA MSIMANG also hoped that both countries could continue standing together?and?supporting each other, which push forward the bilateral relations to a new level.
Mr. Tang hui, Deputy General Manager of Rong Bao Zhai?and?President of Rong Bao Zhai Painting Institute said that, reform?and?opening up had changed China?and?even influenced the world. Therefore, he decided to keep up with the pace of reform?and?opening up?and?gradually transformed Rong Bao Zhai into a comprehensive cultural enterprise with calligraphy writings?and?paintings, stationery, woodcuts, framing?and?repair, auction?and?mortgage, publishing?and?printing, education?and?training, tea culture, import?and?export?and?others as one. Rong Bao Zhai has now become a typical representative in the field of art in China. This exhibition aims at showing a prosperous country through these works?and?describing the great achievements China had made since the reform?and?opening-up.
Multiple works of Beautiful Flowers in Prosperous Times?and?Beautiful Mountains?and?Rivers in Prosperous Times created by famous painters?and?calligraphers were exhibited on the opening ceremony. Some of these works were respectively presented to the Embassies of South Africa, Sir Lanka, Myanmar?and?Japan to collect. The organizers decided to donate a part of earnings made from the other works to Xing (County), Shanxi province to improve the art?and?culture education of the youth there.
This Art Exhibition displayed near 70 pieces of valuable works painted by seven artists including Tang Hui, Wang Yunshu, Yi Feng, Gao Yongqian, Fan Yi, Chang Chang, Yun Yao, who were recommended by Rong Bao Zhai Painting Institute. These works? mainly depicted the beautiful scenery of homeland?and?a better life of Chinese people after the reform?and?opening-up. The exhibition would be held until the 15th of June.
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CPAFFC Vice President Song Jingwu Attends the Annual Meeting and General Assembly of the Swiss-Chinese Association
On June 9, the 2018 Annual Meeting?and?General Assembly of the Swiss-Chinese Association was held in Zurich. Anderies Diener was elected as new president of the association.
Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard, Former President of the Swiss Confederation?and?Head of the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy?and?Communications, attended the meeting?and?delivered a speech on the Belt?and?Road Initiative cooperation between Switzerland?and?China.
CPAFFC Vice President Song Jingwu, Chinese Ambassador to Switzerland Geng Wenbing?and?Swiss Ambassador to China Jean-Jacquesde Dardel attended?and?addressed the meeting. Swiss media?and?academic representatives participated in a round table discussion on the Belt?and?Road Initiative.
Song Jingwu signed a cooperation agreement on behalf of the CPAFFC with the Swiss-Chinese Association.
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2018 China-CEEC Mayors Forum Held in Ningbo
Co-hosted by the CPAFFC?and?Ningbo Municipal People`s Government, the 2018 China-CEEC Mayors Forum was held in Ningbo on 8 June. Focusing on the theme of `Deepening Local Cooperation for Belt?and?Road Implementation`, local leaders, scholars?and?entrepreneurs from China?and?central?and?Eastern European countries were gathered to exchange ideas on internet?and?trade facilitation, investment liberalization?and?pilot zone for economic cooperation,?and?innovation?and?SME cooperation.
Before the Forum, Mr. Qiu Dongyao, Mayor of Ningbo City,?and?Mme. Lin Yi, Vice President of CPAFFC jointly held a meeting with guests from China?and?CEE countries.
At the opening ceremony, Mme. Lin Yi, Vice President of CPAFFC, Mr. Hrnciar, Deputy Speaker of Slovak National Assembly,?and?Mr. Qiu Dongyao, Mayor of Ningbo City, gave speeches respectively. Altogether 300 delegates attended the forum, including over 20 local leaders from Chinese provinces?and?cities such as Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Liaoning, Sichuan, Henan,?and?over 20 CEE local leaders such as Mr. Hrnciar, Deputy Speaker of Slovak National Assembly?and?Mayor of Martin,?and?also representatives of China-CEEC friendship associations, embassies?and?consulates, scholars?and?entrepreneurs.
At the closing ceremony, participants from China?and?CEE countries jointly proposed the establishment of China-CEEC Cities Cooperation Committee.
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Photographed by Xiu Yujia
CPAFFC Vice President Hu Sishe Meets with Governor of Saitama Prefecture Kiyoshi Ueda
On June 8, 2018, CPAFFC Vice President Hu Sishe led the delegation of “Art of China Tour” to meet with Kiyoshi Ueda, President of the National Governors’ Association of Japan?and?Governor of Saitama Prefecture.
During the meeting, Hu Sishe said that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Sino-Japanese Peace?and?Friendship Treaty. China-Japan relations are at a significant moment serving as a link between past?and?future,?and?facing a rare opportunity for improvement?and?development. Not long ago, Governor Kiyoshi Ueda?and?CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin co-chaired the "China-Japan Governor Governor's Forum", which played a positive role in promoting exchanges?and?cooperation between local governments of the two countries. He pointed out that the friendly exchanges between China?and?Japan had always been a very important task for the CPAFFC. Even when the relations between the two countries faced difficulties, the association was always attaching importance to promoting the people-to-people friendship between China?and?Japan, which laid a solid foundation of public opinions for the high-level exchanges between the two countries. Hu Sishe specially thanked Kiyoshi Ueda for his contributions to the friendly exchanges between China?and?Japan as the president of the National Governors’ Association of Japan?and?Governor of Saitama Prefecture,?and?expressed his hope to see more pragmatic exchanges?and?cooperation in the future.
Kiyoshi Ueda thanked the CPAFFC for its active commitment to friendly exchanges with all walks of life in Japan. He said that he was willing to work with the CPAFFC to carry out unremittingly friendly exchanges between the people, inherit?and?carry forward the tradition of Japan-China friendship,?and?continue to contribute to the improvement of the friendly relations between the two countries, regardless of the general political environment.
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Vice President Hu Sishe Meets Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama
Mr. Hu Sishe, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), paid an official visit to former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Tokyo on the afternoon of June 7.
Vice President Hu appreciated Mr. Yukio Hatoyama for giving support in the work of CPAFFC?and?working for the development of the friendly relationship between China?and?Japan for a long time. Vice President Hu said that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’ s visit to Japan in May had achieved a complete success, which would bring good opportunities? for the bilateral relations to develop. CPAFFC would be dedicated to promoting the exchanges?and?cooperation between the two peoples?and?making efforts on consolidating the base of the friendly relationship between the two countries.
Mr. Yukio Hatoyama spoke highly of the active role by CPAFFC in promoting the bilateral ties?and?said that it is needed to inherit?and?carry forward the spirit of the friendly relationship of the two countries by more?and?more Japanese people. Therefore, the friendly relations of the two countries would become more steady?and?last long time if the peoples of the two countries keep strong friendly relations.
Both sides also exchanged their views on recent international hot issues?and?how to develop exchanges?and?cooperation in future.
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Welcome Reception in Honor of the Delegation of Russian Friendly Personages and Veterans’ Relatives Successfully Held
On the evening of June 7, 2018, the welcome reception in honor of the delegation of Russian friendly personages?and?veterans’ relatives was successfully held in the Peace Palace of the CPAFFC. Chen Yuan, President of the China-Russia Friendship Association?and?former CPPCC Vice Chairman, Li Xiaolin, CPAFFC President, Dmitry Mezentsev, Chairman of the Russia-China Friendship Association?and?Chairman of Russia’s Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy,?and?Evgeny Opasov, Vice Chairman of the Russia-China Friendship Association?and?Head of the Association of Veterans of the WWII?and?Military Service of Russia, attended the reception.
Chen Yuan, President of the China-Russia Friendship Association?and?former CPPCC Vice Chairman, delivers a speech
Chen Yuan?and?Li Xiaolin addressed the reception. On behalf of the China-Russia Friendship Association?and?the CPAFFC respectively, they welcomed the new?and?old Russian friends from afar,?and?thanked them for their important contributions to the China-Russia friendship over the years. They also stressed that President Putin would soon pay his first state visit to China in his new term as president. The two associations felt honored to receive the friendly personages of the two countries?and?relatives of the Russian veterans to participate in the people-to-people?and?cultural activities in the framework of the high-level visit, which reflected not only the two governments’ care?and?attention to the people-to-people friendship between the two countries?and?their trust?and?support to the two associations, but also the two associations’ active engagement in promoting the China-Russia relations at the people’s level.
More than 70 people, including the leaders?and?representatives of the China-Russia Friendship Association?and?the Russia-China Friendship Association?and?relatives of the Russian veterans, attended the reception. China Philharmonic Male Choir?and?Chinese Soprano You Hongfei gave a wonderful performance which was warmly welcomed with friendly atmosphere. The reception served as a great warm-up for President Putin’s upcoming visit to China.
CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin delivers a speech
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Vice President Hu Sishe Meets President Lorenzo Ku
Mr. Hu Sishe, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), met with Mr. Lorenzo Ku, President of Philippines-China Association for Promotion of Economy?and?Trade (PCAPET), an old friend of CPAFFC?and?also a winner of the Award for Contribution to People’s Friendship,?and?his delegation on the morning of May, 31st.
The purpose of visiting China for Mr. Lorenzo Ku this time was to attend the Memorandum signing ceremony of establishing the sister province relationship between Liaoning?and?Batangas. He had made great efforts on establishing relationship of the two provinces. Mr. Lorenzo Ku had ever introduced Fushun?and?Riba, Henan?and?Tarlac to establish sister city (province) relationship as a go-between.
Vice President Hu Sishe thanked Mr. Lorenzo Ku for making efforts on promoting the cause of the friendship between two countries at an advanced age. Vice President Hu said that developing?and?establishing sister city (province) is an important work for us. Entrusted by State Council, CPAFFC is responsible for coordinating?and?overseeing the work of establishing friendship-city relations between China?and?other countries. Until now, it has established 30 pairs of sister city (province) between China?and?the Philippines. The exchanges of the local governments between two countries played an active role in promoting the bilateral relations.
Mr. Lorenzo Ku made an introduction about the work?and?planning on enhancing the bilateral ties. He hoped to continue strengthening the cooperation with CPAFFC.
Both sides also had an in-depth discussion on cooperate programs including household service, aged service, health care?and?etc.
Mr. Zhang Juxiang, Director General of China Service for Friendship?and?Cooperation with Foreign Countries (CSC) of CPAFFC, Mr. Hu Yang, Deputy Director General of CSC, attended the meeting
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A Reception to Celebrate 30th Anniversary of Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between China and Uruguay Held in Beijing
The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) organized a reception in Beijing to celebrate the 30th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between China?and?Uruguay on May 29th, 2018. Mr. Hao Mingjin,Vice-Chairman of Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), Mr. Hu Sishe, Vice President of CPAFFC, Mr. Enrique Iglesias, former Foreign Minister of Uruguayan Foreign Affairs Ministry, Mr. Fernando Lugris, Uruguayan Ambassador to China?and?other personages attended the reception. Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee Hao Mingjin had a brief meeting with former Foreign Minister Enrique Iglesias?and?Ambassador Fernando Lugris before the reception.
Vice President Hu Sishe said in his speech, since the establishment of the strategic partnership between China?and?Uruguay in 2016, the bilateral relations had developed rapidly, the willingness for both sides to cooperate had become more?and?more urgent,?and?the friendship between the two peoples had been increasingly deepened. He hoped that both sides should take the 30th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations as an opportunity to further push the bilateral ties forward?and?expand the friendly exchanges between the two countries.?
Ambassador Fernando Lugris also expressed in his speech, the relations between Uruguay?and?China have now developed into the best stage, during which both sides kept close contact in various fields, pragmatic cooperation had been increasingly deepened?and?developed. The Uruguayan side appreciated the Chinese side for giving support?and?assistance to them for a long time. He hoped that Uruguay?and?China relations would achieve remarkable results in next 30 years.
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