President Li Xiaolin signs MOU of Cooperation with VUFO Leader
On January 12th, witnessed by General Secretary Xi Jinping of CPC Central Commitee?and?General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong of the Communist Party of Vietnam, President Li Xiaolin?and?Mr.Don Tuan Phong, Executive Vice Chairman?and?Secretary General of Vietnam Union?of Friendship Organizations(VUFO) signed the MOU of Cooperation between CPAFFC?and?VUFO from 2017 to 2021 in the Great Hall of the People. The MOU reviewed the achievement?and?experience between the two sides’cooperation from 2013 to 2016?and?set the blueprint for exchange?and?cooperation plans in next 5 years in politics,economy?and?trade, culture, youth?and?etc.
President Li Xiaolin Meets with Shenzhen Japanese CCI Delegation
CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin met with the Shenzhen Japanese CCI delegation led by President Murayama Yuzo?and?Supreme Consultant SAKASITA SIGENOBU on the afternoon of December 28th.
The Shenzhen Japanese CCI was founded in 1988. There are 430 corporate memberships?and?4 branches. The total sales reached to 99.5 billion Yen. 160 thousand Chinese employees worked there. The Shenzhen Japanese CCI has kept a long-term cooperative relationship with CPAFFC?and?jointly held two sessions of Exchange Conferences on China’s Policies for Foreign Enterprises. Mr. Li Ruihuan, then-Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) spoke highly of the conferences at the time he was presented.
During the meeting, President Murayama Yuzo?and?Consultant SAKASITA SIGENOBU introduced their plans about the third exchange conference will be held on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic relations in the next year. CPAFFC President Li spoke highly of the contributions SAKASITA SIGENOBU?and?the Shenzhen Japanese CCI have made for a long time to the Sino-Japanese friendship cause. She said, CPAFFC will hold series of exchange activities in next year. We would?like?to work together with the Shenzhen Japanese CCI to hold the third exchange conference. President Li also expressed that the two countries have a large space to cooperate in fields of the elderly care, child health care, food safety, cultural exchange?and?environmental protection?and?so on. Both sides had an in-depth discussion on how to further cooperate.
Mr. Hu Sishe, Vice President of CPAFFC, Mr. Zhang Juxiang, Director General of China Service Center for Friendship?and?Cooperation with Foreign Countries of CPAFFC, Mr. Takashi Masuda, Council Member of the Shenzhen Japanese CCI?and?Mr. Ryoichi NAKAMURA, Secretary General of the Shenzhen Japanese CCI, attended the meeting.
President Li Xiaolin Meets with Governor of Nagano Prefecture
President Li Xiaolin met in CPAFFC with Mr. ABE SHUICHI, Governor of Nagano Prefecture,?and?his delegation on the afternoon of December 13th. Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), Mr. Liu Xiaojun, Director General of the Foreign Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Hebei Province, attended the meeting.
President Li extended welcome to the delegation led by ABE SHUICHI?and?spoke highly of the efforts he had made in the past several years on promoting the local exchanges?and?cooperation between China?and?Japan. President Li said that next year will mark the 45th Anniversary of Normalization of Sino-Japanese Diplomatic Relations?and?the year next will be the 40th Anniversary of the Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace?and?Friendship between China?and?Japan, the third China-Japan Governors Forum will also be held in the next year. Therefore, she hoped that the local governments of the two countries should take these opportunities to strengthen the exchanges, expand cooperation?and?try to enhance mutual understanding?and?friendly feelings of the two peoples so as to continuously inject vitality into the improvement?and?development of China-Japan relations.
ABE SHUICHI thanked CPAFFC?and?CJFA for giving supports to the exchanges developed by Nagano Prefecture with China ?during these years. After introducing the exchanges with China, he said, Japan-China friendship conforms to the basic interests of the two countries?and?is also beneficial to the peace?and?prosperity for Asia?and?even the world. Nagano Prefecture would continue to carry forward the beneficial mode of taking government?and?people as one unit?and?increasingly strengthen the exchanges?and?cooperation in various fields with Hebei Province?and?relevant organizations of Chinese side as well as promote the cause of China?and?Japan friendship as before. Winter Olympic Games was held in Nagano Prefecture in 1998. Therefore, we are willing to play our own advantages to give the Chinese side a lot of support in successfully organizing the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Winter Olympic Games?and?the universal development of Chinese winter sports.
President Li Xiaolin conveyed CJFA President Tang Jiaxuan’s greetings to ABE SHUICHI. The delegation was invited by CPAFFC to visit China this time. On the evening of 13th, Vice President Song Jingwu hosted a banquet for the delegation. ABE SHUICHI paid an official visit to General Administration Sport on the morning of 14th. The both sides reached a consensus on further strengthening the friendly exchanges in field of sport.
President Li Xiaolin Meets with Director General of World Wildlife Fund
President Li Xiaolin met Marco Lambertini, Director General of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on December 9th in Beijing.
President Li introduced the achievement CPAFFC had made in environmental protection, sustainable development?and?philanthropy fields,?and?extended the wishes to conduct comprehensive?and?substantial cooperation with WWF in the future. Director General Lambertini briefed the framework of WWF International?and?its accomplishment to President Li, expecting to launch practical collaboration with CPAFFC in the near future.
Deputy Director General Ji Yongjun, Department of American?and?Oceania Affairs attended the meeting.?
President Li Xiaolin Meets with President FUMIHIRO KOBA, Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China
Mme. Li Xiaolin, President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), met in Beijing with Mr. FUMIHIRO KOBA, President of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce?and?Industry in China (JCCIC),?and?his delegation on December 6th.
President Li spoke highly of the efforts JCCIC had made over the past several years on promoting the friendship of the two countries. Nearly a total number of 600 Chinese college students in 19 batches visited Japan through 2 sessions of the program of Walking into Japanese Enterprises · Experiencing Japanese Culture for orgnazing the Chinese college students to visit Japan that has been held since 2007. The program is praised by all parties for it not only provided advanced experience of Japanese enterprises for the Chinese college students, but also enhanced mutual understanding?and?friendship of the youth between the two countries. The third session cooperation agreement signed this time would be beneficial to deepening the mutual understanding?and?friendship of the two youth, as well as cultivating the successors for the cause of Sino-Japanese friendship.
President FUMIHIRO KOBA thanked CPAFFC for its active cooperation in the implement of the former two sessions of the programs. The third session of the program launched by the member enterprises of the JCCIC, reflects that JCCIC?and?its members attach great importance to the friendly exchanges between the two youth ?in fields of the economy, culture, education?and?etc.. They also hope that the program will be held better?and?better with the help of the Chinese side.
After the meeting, under the witness of President Li Xiaolin?and?President FUMIHIRO KOBA, China-Japan Friendship Association (CJFA)?and?China Friendship Foundation for Peace?and?Development (CFFPD) signed the Third Session Cooperation Agreement of the Program of Walking into Japanese Enterprises · Experiencing Japanese Culture with JCCIC respectively.
President Li Xiaolin Meets with Mr Jacob Bundsgaard, Mayor of Aarhus
On the afternoon of 5 December, President Li Xiaolin of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries(CPAFFC) met with Mr Jacob Bundsgaard, Mayor of Aarhus?and?Vice President of Local Government Denmark, who visited China to attend the Inaugural China Denmark Regions?and?Cities Forum.
President Li Xiaolin welcomed the Local Government Denmark delegation led by Mayor Jacob Bundsgaard. She highlighted that the Forum was attended by 6 regions?and?cities from Denmark?and?over 30 provinces?and?cities from China, which manifested the strong willingness to cooperate between the two countries’ local governments. She hoped the Forum would add new content to the China-Denmark Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Mayor Bundsgaard said that Denmark valued local cooperation with China,?and?it would?like?to carry out practical cooperation with China through regions?and?cities?and?bring benefits to the two peoples. He looked forward to hosting the next Forum in Aarhus.?
Mr Hu Sishe, Vice Preisident of CPAFFC, Mr. Shen Xin?and?Ms. Zhang Ruoning, Deputy Director-Generals of the Department of European?and?Asian Affairs, were present at the meeting.
President Li Xiaolin Meets with Danish Minister for Gender Equality and Nordic Cooperation
On the afternoon of 5 December, President Li Xiaolin of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries(CPAFFC) met with Danish Minister for Gender Equality?and?Nordic Cooperation Karen Ellemann Kloch?and?her regional?and?municipal leaders’ delegation, who visited China to attend the Inaugural China Denmark Regions?and?Cities Forum.
President Li Xiaolin extended welcome to Minister Karen Ellemann Kloch?and?introduced the CPAFFC’s work in people-to-people diplomacy?and?local government cooperation. Minister Karen Ellemann Kloch said she hoped to strengthen China-Denmark local governments’ practical cooperation through the Forum?and?jointly build livable cities.
Mr Hu Sishe, Vice Preisident of CPAFFC, Mr. Shen Xin?and?Ms. Zhang Ruoning, Deputy Director-Generals of the Department of European?and?Asian Affairs, were present at the meeting.
President Li Xiaolin Meets with H.E. Mr. Anders Carsten Damsgaard, Danish Ambassador to China
On 29th November, President Li Xiaolin of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) met with H.E. Mr. Anders Carsten Damsgaard, Danish Ambassador to China at the Danish Embassy. The two sides discussed issues relating to the ?co-hosting of China Denmark Regions?and?Cities Forum,?and?exchanged views on topics such as cooperation in key areas between the two countries, “Belt?and?Road Initiative”?and?the current international situation.
Mr Song Jingwu, Vice Preisident of CPAFFC, Mr. Shen Xin?and?Ms. Zhang Ruoning, Deputy Director-Generals of the Department of European?and?Asian Affairs, were present at the meeting.
President Li Xiaolin Comes to Embassy of Cuba in China to Express Condolence to Passing away of Fidel Castro
Mme. Li Xiaolin, President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) came to the Embassy of Cuba in China to express condolence to the passing away of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on the afternoon of November 29th. Mr. Miguel Angel Ramiles, New Cuba Ambassador to China, Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of CPAFFC were present.