People-to-people exchanges key to US ties, Xi says
2023-06-29 16:59
More than a century ago, some United States citizens began living in Kuliang, a famous summer retreat in Fuzhou, Fujian province, joining thousands of other foreigners. They later became part of the China-US friendship, working and living in harmony with local Chinese.
▲ Guo Gonghong, a native of Kuliang, shows a photograph of his father, Guo Maolu, and Elizabeth Gardner during her 1992 visit to Kuliang, at the forum on people-to-people friendship between China and the United States in Fuzhou, Fujian province, on Wednesday. [HU MEIDONG/CHINA DAILY]
In his letter to the Bond with Kuliang: 2023 China-US People-to-People Friendship Forum, Xi emphasized that the friendship of the two countries lies in the amity between their people. "The root of the development of country-to-country relations lies in the people of the two countries," he wrote.