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? Li Xiaolin,? President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries(CPAFFC) attended the opening ceremony of 2013 City Infrastructure Forum which was held in Chongqing,China and delivered a speech On September 9, 2013. In her speech, President Li introduced the history, function of the CPAFFC?and the work of the international friendship cities to over 150 representatives from 14 countries. She pointed out that this forum was an important cooperation between the UCLG ASPAC and China member cities, and also hoped that city representatives, experts and scholars from China and other countries would be able to take advantage of the important platform to communicate thoroughly, discuss the urbanization experiences and share the urbanization achievements. ? 2013 City Infrastructure Forum was sponsored jointly by CPAFFC, UCLG ASPAC, Chongqing Municipal Government and “ City Today” magazine. The forum is a new initiative with purpose of searching out an optimized plan for the urbanization through the pragmatic dialogue among cities, central governments, local government associations, united nations organizations and enterprises in the world so as to resolve the problems?in rapid development of the urbanization. Huang Qifan,?Mayor of the Chongqing, Jatin Modi, President of the UCLG ASPAC and others attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches respectively. ?

? President Li Xiaolin met with three African countries’diplomats? for the lecture tour to Jilin Province in Changchun city on Sep. 6, including H.E.Julio Cesar Freire De Morais, Ambassador of Cape Verde, H.E.Joao Garcia Bires,Ambassador fo Angola and Ms. Esmeralda Patricio, Economic Counsellor of Mozambican Embassy, etc..?? Li welcomed the African diplomats to advertise Africa in Jilin and promote Chinese -African exchange and cooperation, while attending the China International City Cooperation Forum there. She looked forward further development in China-Africa city cooperation, so as to push China-Africa cooperation and to enhance the peoples’?friendship. H.E.Julio Cesar Freire De Morais, Ambassador of Cape Verde and head of the delegation said, China-Africa city cooperation is of huge potential, and conforms with the benefits of both sides. He wished the forum a big success.? ?

Li Xioalin, the President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries(CPAFFC) met and hosted a banquet for Ms. Zhou Yi, Vice President, Marketing Communications and Citizenship manager of IBM Great China Group on? September 4, 2013. President Li watched the demonstration of the project management system developed by IBM for China Friendship Foundation for Peace and Development, which was established by CPAFFC in 1996. President Li spoke highly of the system, which she believes will be conducive to standardizing the management of CFFPD and increasing its transparency of financial information. Vice President Zhou Yi thanked President Li Xiaolin for her hospitality. Zhou expressed that IBM attaches great importance to friendly relations with CPAFFC,? and is willing to carry forward cooperation with CPAFFC in all areas in the future. ?

On August 23rd, 2013 Mme. Li Xiaolin, the president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) met with Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, ON, MP, Prime Minister of Jamaica in Peace Palace. President Li extended her warm welcome to Prime Minister Miller and her party, and recalled her joyful experience of visiting Prime Minister Miller in year 2007 when she visited Jamaica with Mr. Cheng Siwei, the president of China-Latin American and Caribbean Friendship Association. President Li said, since China and Jamaica established diplomatic relations 41 years ago, the bilateral relationship of the two countries had been developing steadily; the friendly cooperation in politics, economy, trade and culture had been deepened. As one of the most active friendship-to-China organizations, Jamaica-China Friendship Association made great contribution to the above mentioned achievements. President Li also briefed the delegation about the work of the CPAFFC Prime Minister Miller thanked President Li Xiaolin for her hospitality. She highly evaluated Jamaica-China relation and the long lasting friendship between the two peoples. She expressed that the Jamaican government and people would cooperate to give an all-around impetus to the pragmatic cooperation with China in fields of economy, trade, humane culture, sports, environmental protection and media. Mr. Xie Yuan, the vice president of the CPAFFC, Zhang Heqiang, the director-general of Department of American and Oceanian Affairs, Ji Yongjun, Deputy Director General, Department of American and Oceanian Affairs, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, MP, Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, His Excellency Ralph Thomas, Ambassador of Jamaica to the People’s Republic of China were present at the banquet.

On August 22nd 2013, H.E. Mr. Kwon Young-se, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to China hosted a luncheon for CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin and Mr. Wang Jianzhou, President of China-Korea Friendship Association. President Li briefed Ambassador Kwon about her visit to ROK last month, especially the meeting with ROK President Park Geun-hye. President Li said that the deepest impression left on the Chinese delegation was the emphasis given and active endeavors made by the Korean people, from top political leaders to grass-root masses, on developing the China-Korea friendship relations in a healthy way. The CPAFFC would join in the efforts with the Korean side to make constant achievements of cultural, economic, trade, and youth exchanges. President Li also expressed gratitude to Ambassador Kwon for his support and assistance in her visit to Korea. Mr. Wang Jianzho said that the China-Korea Friendship Association would contribute more to the development of economic and trade relations between China and Korea as the two economies complemented each other. Ambassador Kwon Young-se congratulated President Li for her visit to Korea and assured her of full support by the Korean Embassy in Beijing to coordinate with the CPAFFC and further enhance mutual cooperation, especially in youth exchanges, for carrying forward the Korea-China friendship generation after generation.

On 22nd August 2013, President Li met with President of Vietnam-China Friendship Association Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang and his delegation. President Li expressed welcome to Mr. Nguyen and said that we would never forget the “comrades and brothers” relations founded by the past generations of China and Vietnam. No matte how the world situation changed, the China-Vietnam friendship should stand all tests and become even stronger.? The main tasks of the CPAFFC were to consolidate friendship between Chinese people and people in other countries, to safeguard world peace and to promote international cooperation and harmony. The series activities hosted by the CPAFFC and the Vietnam-China Friendship Association, like people’s gala, people’s forum, Bring-light tour and so on, should be strengthened. There was a Chinese saying that “a near neighbor is better than a distant relative”. China and Vietnam were neighboring countries connected by mountains and waters.? The two sides surely could further mutual trust, deepen cooperation, attain common prosperity and achieve win-win development. Mr. Nguyen said that during the visit to China in June 2013 by Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang, the two sides issued a joint declaration emphasizing political mutual trust and pragmatic cooperation.? The Vietnam-China Friendship Association would join in the efforts with the CPAFFC to implement the agreements of the state leaders and promote mutual understanding between the two peoples by holding various activities. Mr. Nguyen invited President Li for a visit to Vietnam and President Li accepted with gratitude.

On August 19th, President Li Xiaolin met with Neil Bush and representatives of The Texas A&M University System. Neil Bush is the third son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and the younger brother of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States. The two sides held a discussion on co-hosting George H.W. Bush 6th Biennial China-U.S. Relations Conference in Beijing next year.

? Li Xiaolin, the president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries(CPAFFC) met with H.E. Mr.Julian Ventura Valero, the new Mexico ambassador to China and his delegation on August,16, 2013. President Li Xiaolin welcomed Ambassador Ventura to China to take his new post, and introduced the history of the CPAFFC and the people-to-people diplomatic work between China and Mexico. She said, after President Xi Jinping visited Mexico, the relationship between the two countries came into a new degree in history. As strategic partners, the both sides were expected to further strengthen the communication and cooperation in fields of culture, tourism, art, besides high-level governmental exchange, in order to create more chances for the mutual understanding of the two peoples. At present, the two countries have established 22 pairs of friendship cities; this number were ranked second place in Latin American countries, and still had potential of increase. She also hoped that the two countries would continue promoting the establishment of friendship cities or states/provinces and striven to develop the exchanges and cooperation of local governments to a new highlight of China-Mexico relation.? Ambassador Ventura thanked the CPAFFC for its contribution and efforts to the friendship between Mexico and China. He recalled the exchange visits of the Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto and the Chinese President Xi Jinping and expressed his joy for the prosperously developing Mexico-China relationship. He agreed with President Li’s opinion on deepening the development of Mexico-China friendship, and hoped to keep close contact with the CPAFFC to promote pragmatic cooperations on friendship cities, personnel exchanges, culture and tourism, etc., as well as to consolidate the tradition of friendly cooperation, continually enhance the peoples’ mutual understanding and recognition and broaden the friendship platform for the two peoples. Ji Yongjun, the deputy-director general of Department of American and Oceania Affairs attended the meeting. ?

On April 15, Mme. Li Xiaolin, the president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) met with Dr. Nelly Ng. Chair, the Chairwoman of Canadian Fund for International Understanding through Culture (CFIUC). President Li Xiaolin extended her welcome to Dr. Nelly Ng. Chair. She appreciated CFIUC’s donation to the elementary schools in remote and poverty-stricken regions, and highly praised CFIUC’s contribution to deepening China-Canada Friendship. Dr. Nelly Ng. Chair briefed the state of the book donation to elementary schools in Guizhou and Inner Mongolia during this visit in China. She hoped to keep close cooperation with the CPAFFC. She also invited President Li Xiaolin to lead a delegation of the Chinese local governments to visit Canada at a convenient time. President Li Xiaolin expressed that the CPAFFC would strengthen the cooperation with CFIUC in affairs of friendship cities. The both sides also reached initial intention of exchanges in other fields in the future.

Li Xiaolin, the president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) hosted a welcome dinner for Andrey Denisov, the New Russian? Ambassador to China? on August,14,2013 in CPAFFC. President Li welcomed Ambassador Andrey Denisov to China to take his new post, and introduced the work of the CPAFFC and the situation of the exchanges with Russia to him. She also hoped to keep close cooperation with the Russian Embassy to China, so as to further enhance mutual understanding and traditional friendship between the two peoples. The Ambassador Andrey Denisov thanked President Li for her warm welcome, and expressed that the Russian Embassy to China would actively assist CPAFFC to implement work and strengthen people-to-people friendly exchanges? in various fields between the two countries. The both sides exchanged ideas on the issues of developing cooperation of local governments between the two countries and the joint sponsorship of China-Russia Governors Dialogue. Vice president Li Jianping attended the meeting.