On November 4th, President Li Xiaolin met with Bruce C. Bommarito, vice president of the Caesars Entertainment. President Li talked to Mr. Bommarito about the CPAFFC’s plan to hold an exhibition in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the world anti-fascism war and Chinese people’s war against Japanese aggression next year. She also exchanged views with him on the exhibition’s theme, schedule, venue and scale.  Mr. Bommarito spoke highly of President Li’s unremitting efforts and remarkable contributions to the China-U.S. relations. He  expressed his hope to work with the CPAFFC to promote the bilateral ties and his willingness to co-host the photo exhibition in the State of Nevada.

On October 29th, President Li Xiaolin met the visiting delegation of Thai-Chinese Culture and Economy Association(TCCEA) headed by President Bhokin Bhalakula. President Li welcomed Bhokin Bhalakula to visit China and extended the gratitude to the support and arrangements during her visit to Thailand last year by TCCEA.President Li expressed that China’s development brings opportunities to the neighboring countries as well as the Asia-Pacific region and needs more support,understanding and cooperation for future development from Thailand and other countries around the world. Dr.Bohkin said that the Thailand-China relations are enjoying the comprehensive and pragmatic development now and TCCEA is willing to join with CPAFFC for more bilateral friendly exchanges and cooperation in terms of economic and trade, culture and so on. The two Presidents also conducted in-depth exchanges on international situation.Mr.Feng Zuoku, Vice President of CPAFFC, was presented during the meeting.

On Oct. 27th, CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin met with D.N. Nazarbaeva, Deputy Speaker of Lower House of Kazakhstan and the Chairwoman of the Foundation of First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. President Li briefed Nazarbaeva about the aim of the CPAFFC and recent status of CPAFFC’s friendly contact with the countries around the world. President Li indicated that, China and Kazakhstan are traditional friendly neighbors. Further developing the relations and enhancing the mutual understandings and friendship of the two peoples are significant for the development of the both countries and maintaining the regional stability. The CPAFFC would like to cooperate with  Foundation of the First President of Republic of Kazakhstan under the direction of the strategy of jointly constructing the Silk Road Economic Belt raised by the Chinese President Xi Jinping, to constantly enrich the content of the friendly contact of the two countries. Nazarbaeva was grateful for President Li’s warm reception. She spoke highly of the outstanding contribution that CPAFFC has made to enhancing the people’s friendship and safeguarding the world peace. She expressed that the  Foundation of the First President of Republic of Kazakhstan would like to strengthen the cooperation with CPAFFC in fields of culture, environmental protection, academy, youth exchanges and etc.. Accompanied by President Li, Nazarbaeva viewed the picture exhibition of CPAFFC’s recent work on Kazakhstan affairs. Witnessed by President Li and Chairwoman Nazarbaeva, Vice President Li Jianping and Nurakhanov, Executive Chairman of Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan signed an agreement on the cooperation of the two organizations.Foundation of the First President is one of the most influential non-profitable organization in Kazakhstan, which was formed in year 2000, aiming at consolidating national system, promoting patriotism, pushing forward the process of democracy of Kazakhstan, facilitating the Kazakhstan’s cultural, economic and political cooperation with other countries. Chairwoman Nazarbaeva of the foundation, who was visiting China at CPAFFC at President Li Xiaolin’s invitation, is the eldest daughter of Kazakhstan President Nazarbaev. CPAFFC Vice President Li Jianping, Song Jingwu, Director-General of Department of European and Asian Affairs, H.E. Mr. Nurlan Ermekbaev were present at the meeting.

On October 22nd, President Li Xiaolin met with Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, the United States, and his delegation. President Li introduced the goals and recent work of CPAFFC and stated that the CPAFFC would serve as a bridge to further promote China-Virginia and China-U.S. friendly exchanges and pragmatic cooperation. Governor McAuliffe thanked President Li for meeting his delegation. It has been his second China trip since he took office January this year, said the Governor. Virginia attaches great importance to developing the friendly relations with China and welcomes more Chinese investment in the Commonwealth. Secretary Maurice A. Jones of Virginia Commerce and Trade, President & CEO Martin J. Briley of Virginia Economic Development Partnership attended the meeting.

On the afternoon of Oct. 14th, H.E. Mr. Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, the new French Ambassador visited the CPAFFC and paid a courtesy call to CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin. President Li thanked Ambassador for his visit to the CPAFFC. She said, the CPAFFC is actively planning the 4th High-level Cooperation Forum of Chinese and French Local Government which will be held in Strasbourg in this November. She expected the ambassador to support and promote the forum. President Li also wish to strengthen the cooperation with the French Embassy in China, to develop more pragmatic cooperation and exchanges between the Chinese and French local governments. Ambassador Gourdault-Montagne thanked President Li for finding time for the meeting in her busy schedule. He said, the correlative departments in France are also busily preparing for the forum. The French Embassy in China will do everything to collaborat with the CPAFFC to make the forum a great success. The French Embassy would like to strengthen the cooperation with the CPAFFC and promote the contact of the Chinese and French local authorities. Vice President Li Jianping attended the meeting, and briefly introduced the progress of the preparation for the forum.

At the invitation of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President Li Xiaolin visited New York from September 23 to 27. During the visit, she attended the "Every Woman Every Child" high-level event which was held during the 69th United Nations General Assembly and deliver a speech at the opening session. In her speech, President Li spoke highly of the positive role played by "Every Woman Every Child" movement in improving women and children’s health globally since it’s launched by UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon. She announced that CPAFFC and Every Woman Every Child project team under the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General will jointly establish China Partnership Network, and will involve more Chinese enterprises, civil society organizations and academic institutes in the improvement of women and children’s health. The Network will serve as a platform for these parties for cooperation. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted the opening session, and called on more national governments and civil society organizations to participate in the Every Woman Every Child movement so as to realize the set goals of the movement at an early date. More than 600 world leaders from political, economic and academic circles attended the event and shared experience and thoughts on further improving women and children’s health worldwide, including Mr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of Tanzania, Mr. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, Ms. Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of World Bank Group, Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, Ms. Sue Desmond-Hellman, CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Madam Margaret Kenyatta, First Lady of Kenya, and Ms. Kim Simplis-Barrow, First Lady of Belize. Women and children’s health work drew more attention from many national governments, civil society organizations and enterprises due to the promotion of Every Woman Every Child movement. During this time’s event, a total of 5 billion USD was committed to support the movement by national governments such as Canada, Norway and the United States, international organizations like World Bank Group and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and enterprises from different countries. During the visit, President Li Xiaolin also met with Mr. Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Mr. Soopakij Chearavanont, Executive Vice Chairman of Chia Tai Group, to discuss future cooperation projects.  

On the afternoon of 18th September, President Li Xiaolin of the CPAFFC met with the first group of awardees of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence Friendship Award in New Delhi, and held discussions on strengthening China-India people-to-people exchanges. President Li congratulated the friendly individuals and groups on receiving the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence Friendship Award. Li highly praised them for their contributions to the enhancement of mutual understanding and friendship between the Chinese and Indian peoples, and call them good friends of the Chinese people.   Li said that people-to-people exchange constitutes an important part of bilateral relations. Over the past years, friendship organizations from both countries have organized a series of activities of great significance, and has played a positive role in promoting mutual understanding and trust, and consolidating friendship. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the release of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence co-initiated by China, India and Myanmar. Therefore, the Chinese Government established the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence Friendship Award, to felicitate individuals and groups for upholding the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, strengthening people to people friendship and promoting world peace and development. The CPAFFC is entrusted by the Chinese Government in organizing the granting of this award. The friendly groups and individuals present here are the first group of awardees, who have set a good example of promoting China-India friendship and safeguarding world peace and development. Hope you all continue to make more contributions to the China-India friendship, Li said.   Friendly individuals and groups regarded it their great honor to be given the Friendship Award. They made introductions of their groups or themselves, especially their work to promote bilateral relations over the recent years. President Li also presented certificates of Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence Friendship Award to the awardees. The awardees are the Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis family, the Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis Memorial Committee, the Department of Chinese Language and Culture (Cheena Bhavana) with the Visva-Bharati University, and the India-China Friendship Association. Dr. Jyoti Mohapatra, secretary general of the Friends of China Society, and Dr. Mohan Reddy, secretary general of the Andra Pradesh Chapter of the India-China Friendship Association, were also granted the award.

On Sept. 15th, CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin met with Mr. Seah Moon Ming, Chairman of International Enterprise Singapore (IES). President Li Xiaolin greeted Mr. Seah Moon Ming, and welcomed him to visit CPAFFC. She briefed Mr. Seah about the general status and history of development of the CPAFFC. She said, the friendship between China and Singapore has lasted for a long time. The both sides have established excellent communicative mechanism at multiple levels including politics and economy. Especially in recent year,  the economic cooperation is increasingly closer,while the people-to-people contact and exchanges have been enriched continuously, as well as the cooperation between the both sides in environment, energy, human resource training is further deepened, and achieved great social effect. President Li gave her full recognition to Mr. Seah, for his positive and long-term efforts on promoting the exchanges between the Chinese and Singaporean enterprises. Mr. Seah Moon Ming thanked President Li for the meeting, and introduced the status of IES and Singapore Pavilion Energy Group. He said, Singapore is the largest foreign investor to China in 2013. The trading link between the two countries is becoming tighter, and the cooperation between the enterprises is more frequent, especially in natural gas, the both countries have great potential of cooperation. The both sides also had exchanges of views on environmental protection, energy utilization and etc..   Mr. Ji Yongjun, Deputy Director-General of Department of American and Oceanian Affairs, Mr. He Chenguang Vice President of China-Cuba Friendship Association attended the meeting.

On September 10th, President Li Xiaolin had a meeting with Governor Rick Perry of Texas, U.S. President Li introduced to the guests about CPAFFC''''s major projects with the U.S., and extended the invitation to Governor Perry to attend the 3rd China-U.S. Governors Forum to be held in California in November. Governor Perry expressed his appreciation for President Li''''s invitation. He said that people-to-people exchanges are very important to China-U.S. relations. He will continue to promote the exchanges and cooperation between Texas and China in all sorts of ways.

At the invitation of the CPAFFC, the delegation of Japan Association for Corporate Executives (JACE) headed by Mr. Yasuchika Hasegawa, visited Beijing from Sept. 8th to 10th. On the morning of Sept. 10th, CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin met with the delegation. President Li spoke highly of JACE’s efforts on developing long-term exchanges with China and actively promoting economic cooperation between China and Japan, aiming for pushing constant development of Sino-Japan relations. President Li said, this year is 69th anniversary of victory of China’s anti-Japanese War and the world’s anti-fascism war. The Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized at the commemorating conference that, although there was an unpleasant period of history between China and Japan, the Chinese government and people will dedicate to develop China-Japan relations as always. China would like to promote long-term, steady and healthy China-Japan relation based on Four Political Documents between China and Japan. In the current difficult situation, as the national organization especially engaged in non-governmental diplomatic works, the CPAFFC would like to do more positive and pragmatic works jointly with the Japanese friends including JACE, to promote the earlier improvement and development of China-Japan relation, through constantly developing the cooperation and exchanges at people-to-people level. Mr. Hasegawa said, China and Japan as the second and third largest economy entity of the world, have great potential of cooperation. Besides the traditional trading cooperation, JACE will make more efforts on continuously exploring new fields of cooperation, and play its role for the improvement of China-Japan relation.