Mme. Gu Xiulian, President of China-ASEAN Association Meets with the Spouse of Thai Prime Minister Naraporn
On April 24th, Mme. Gu Xiulian, President of China-ASEAN Association met with Mme. Naraporn Chan-o-cha, the spouse of Thai Prime Minister, at the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC).
Gu Xiulian welcomed Naraporn and the delegation for the visit on behalf of CPAFFC, and said China and Thailand are friends and partners like a family. With deepening cooperation in various fields, the bilateral relations have developed smoothly since the diplomatic relations were established. She emphasized that people-to-people amity and friendship and city relations are important parts of the bilateral relations, and CPAFFC and China-ASEAN Association are ready to enhance cooperation and communication together with the Thai side in this regard and promote the all-round development of Chinese-Thai relations.
Naraporn thanked CPAFFC for inviting the delegation to China and said Thai and China are not only friendly neighbors but also sisters and brothers of one family. She hoped to strengthen the cooperation between the two countries in education, science, culture and other fields through the visit.
Naraporn’s delegation also includes the Spouses of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Education and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand.
A Conference of New Term Council Members of China-Latin America and Caribbean Friendship Association Held in Beijing
A Conference of new term council members of China-Latin America and Caribbean Friendship Association (CLACFA) was held in Beijing on April 24th, 2017. Around 80 personages including Mr. Ma Peihua, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Mr. Xie Yuan, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), Mr. Zhu Qingqiao, Director-General of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and the new term council members of CLACFA, attended the conference.
CPPCC Vice Chairman Ma Peihua was elected as new term President of CLACFA.
President Ma Peihua delivered an important speech on the conference. He pointed out that CLACFA should strengthen the exchanges and development of the Association in the fields of humanity, local governments, economy, trade and energy. Every council member should take CLACFA as a platform to give great support and to take part in the various activities held by CLACFA, so as to enhance mutual exchanges and greatly develop the broad prospect of the friendship between China and Latin America and Caribbean countries. He also hoped that every council member should make efforts to giving advice and suggestions to promote the comprehensive and in-depth development of the bilateral relations, which could serve the country’s diplomacy.
Director-General Zhu Qingqiao also made an introduction about the current relations and the general situation between China and Latin America and Caribbean countries.
Vice President Xie Yuan Meets with President of The Asia Foundation
Vice President Xie Yuan met with Mr. David D. Arnold, President of The Asia Foundation on April 12th.
Vice President Xie introduced the work CPAFFC has done in the field of philanthropy and promoting the health of women, children and adolescents under the framework of United Nations Every Woman Every Child China Partnership Network; as well as Chinese NGOs involvement in international collaboration. Mr. Arnold briefed Mr. Xie about the projects carried out by The Asia Foundation in China. He said that the promulgation of Law of the People’s Republic of China on Administration of Activities of Overseas Nongovernmental Organizations in the Mainland of China had been greatly welcomed as it provided clear guidance for foreign NGOs to proceed legal registration in China. The Asia Foundation would complete its registration strictly according to relative laws and regulations, to lay a solid foundation for its future work in China.
Mr. Ji Yongjun, Deputy Director General of Department of American and Oceania Affairs attended the meeting.
Vice President Song Jingwu Holds Working Conference with Mr. Mezentsev, Member of RFC and Chairman of RCFA
Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), held working conference with Mr. Mezentsev, Member of the Russian Federation Council (RFC) and Chairman of Russia-China Friendship Association (RCFA) on April,12th. Both sides had a discussion on the cooperative plan for China-Russia Friendship Association (CRFA) and Russia-China Friendship Association (RCFA) in next step.
Mme. Hu Chunmei, Associated Counsel of Department of European and Asian Affairs of CPAFFC, Mr. Zinoviev, Minister-Counsellor of the Russian Embassy in China, Mr. Kulikova, the first Vice-Chairman of RCFA, attended the meeting.
Chen Yuan, Vice-Chairman of CPPCC and President of CRFA, Meets with Mr. Mezentsev, Member of RFC and Chairman of RCFA
Mr. Chen Yuan, Vice Chairman of National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and President of China-Russia Friendship Association (CRFA), met with Mr. Mezentsev, Member of Russian Federation Council (RFC) and Chairman of Russia-China Friendship Association (RCFA), who was invited by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) on April, 12th. Both sides exchanged their views on further deepening the local exchanges between China and Russia, promoting the cooperation in the fields of the economy, trade, humanity and culture of the two countries, and the details about how to organize a series of activities during the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Russia-China Friendship Association (RCFA) this year.
Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of CPAFFC, Mme. Hu Chunmei, Associated Counsel of Department of European and Asian Affairs of CPAFFC, Mr. Zinoviev, Minister-Counsellor of the Russian Embassy in China, Mr. Kulikova, the first Vice-Chairman of RCFA, attended the meeting.
Vice President Song Jingwu Meets with President of Council of Local Authorities for International Relations of Japan
Mr. Song Jingwu, President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), met with Mr. Tamotsu OKAMOTO, President of Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR) on April, 12th. Both sides exchanged their views on further deepening the exchanges and cooperation in the fields of local governments, humanities and the others between China and Japan. Vice President Song also made a brief introduction about the Xiongan New Area established in Hebei.
Mme. Zhu Dan, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Japanese Affairs of CPAFFC, Mr. KITA MURA TOMOKI, Director of Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR), Beijing, attended the meeting.
Vice President Xie Yuan Meets with AMR Delegation
Vice President Xie Yuan met with Romanian Municipalities Association (AMR) delegation led by its President, Mayor Robert Sorin Negoita of District 3 of Bucharest on April 11th.
Vice President Xie extended his warm welcome to the delegation. He introduced freindship-city activities of CIFCA and its work in promoting exchanges at local and regional level between China and Romania. The two sides have great potential for cooperation, expecially at present when China is implementing “Belt and Road” strategy. Xie encouraged AMR to take active participation and establish extensive contacts with local governments of China, twin friendship cities and carry out mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation within the strategy.
President Negoita appreciated the warm hospitality. He said that Romania values our traditional friendship and has a strong wish for cooperation with China. He hoped that AMR would strengthen its ties with CIFCA and CIFCA would help them to twin friendship cities with their counterparts in China so as to promote result-oriented cooperation in fields of economy, education and infrastructure. Negoita invited Xie to lead a delegation to visit Romania. Xie said he would work to make the trip. The delegation of 12 members is visiting China at the invitation of CIFCA.
President Tang Jiaxuan Meets with kono yohei, President of Association for the Promotion of International Trade, Japan
Mr.Tang Jiaxuan, President of China-Japan Friendship Association (CJFA), met in Beijing with Mr. kono yohei, President of Association for the Promotion of International Trade, Japan (JAPIT) and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, and his delegation on April 11. Mr. Yuan Mindao, Director-General of the Department of Japanese Affairs of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), Mr. KASAI YAKUO, Chairman of JAPIT, attended the meeting.
Tang Jiaxuan said that the bilateral relations had achieved development, but also have confronted with complicated and sensitive factors after 45 years of the normalization of the diplomatic relations between China and Japan. As close neighbors and major global economies, the two countries should firmly keep to the general direction of friendship and win-win cooperation of bilateral relations. Both countries should, on the basis of the four political documents between China and Japan, take the 45th anniversary of the normalization of the diplomatic relations between China and Japan as an opportunity to hold various people-to-people activities, so as to enhance the mutual understanding and friendly feeling between the youth of the two countries, especially the two peoples, and to lay a foundation of public support for sustainable development of the bilateral relations.
Mr.kono yohei said that last year, over 6.3 million Chinese tourists visited Japan, which broke the highest record in history, but the number of the Japanese tourists visited China was decreasing. Therefore, continuous strengthening the exchanges of the two peoples is the need to enhance the emotions. JAPIT would like to work together with Chinese side to further deepen the exchanges of economy, trade and humanity of the two countries, so as to improve the bilateral relations.
Vice President Xie Yuan Meets with New York State Legislature Delegation
Vice President Xie Yuan met with New York State Legislature Delegation headed by Assistant Speaker Felix Ortiz of New York State Assembly on April 10, 2017.
Vice President Xie Yuan extended a warm welcome to Assistant Speaker Ortiz and his delegation. He said, China-U.S. sub-national cooperation is the cornerstone of China-U.S. relations. The CPAFFC has established sub-national cooperation mechanisms such as China-U.S. Governors Forum, China-U.S. Sister Cities Conference and China-U.S. Sub-national Legislatures Cooperation Forum. He hoped New York State continue playing active role in these mechanisms, adding new momentum to China-U.S. sub-national cooperation.
Ortiz said, as the two biggest countries of the world, the U.S. and China share global responsibilities. He was very glad to see leaders of the two countries sit down with pleasant conversations at Mar-a-Lago last Thursday. He hoped to build stronger ties through sister cities and sister states between New York State and China, in public policy making and other areas, tapping into the potential of cooperation at city and state level.