President Li Xiaolin met with Mr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, President of Bangladesh-China Friendship Association (BCFA) on 19th October. Mr. Hussain introduced current development and activities of BCFA to president Li, expressing the willingness to cooperate with our association to organize activities conducive to friendship development between peoples of both countries. Mr. Hussain also recalled plesantly the almost 30 years history of exchanges and communications betweent the two organizations.   President Li thanked Mr. Hussain for his long-time and enthusiastic support to China-Bangladesh friendship and praised him as our true old and good friend, hoping that the close contact between our association and the BCFA, led by Mr, Huassain, could be maintained to promote the development of China-Bangladesh friendship together.  As a member of the standing committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Mr. Hussain visited China accompanying Madam Khaleda Zia, Chairperson of the Party this time.

President Li Xiaolin met with Mr.S. Jaishankar, ambassador of the Republic of India on 19th October 2012. H.E. Mr.S. Jaishankar thanked President Li Xiaolin for meeting him regardless of her tight schedule. To enhance mutual understanding between China and India, ambassador Jaishankar expressed his willingness to strengthen the cooperation on education and tourism between two sides. President Li indicated that both China and India were neighbouring countries with ancient civilization and large population. It''''''''s essential to develop our bilateral relations in terms of people-to-people communication. The development of exchanges and communications between local governments of both countries would set up effective platforms in this regard. President Li introduced the "BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Governments Cooperation Forum" to H.E. Mr. Jaishankar, hoping that Indian Embassy could play an active role to make the forum to be held successfully in India early next year and facilitate the intertwining of the first sister city between China and India. H.E. Mr.S. Jaishankar expressed that he would follow the progress of the forum actively and provide support to make the forum a smooth and successful one.

Madam Li Xiaolin, President of the Chinese People’s Association For Friendship With Foreign Countries (CPAFEC), led the 7th Delegation of “Say As It Is”, composed of entrepreneurs, to pay a visit to the United States in early August. Madam Li Xiaolin and the delegation held meetings with several Congressmen of the United States to introduce the current development and future direction of private economy, cultural industry and overseas investment and to explore opportunities of cooperation on the relevant areas.  

U.S. New England Governor’s Conference Madam Li Xiaolin, President of the Chinese People’s Association For Friendship With Foreign Countries (CPAFEC), and Mr. Liu Guozhong, Executive Vice Governor of Heilongjiang Province, attended the annual meeting of U.S. New England Governors’ Conference (NEGC) held in Burlington, Vermont on July 29-30, 2012. The two sides explored opportunities for cooperation on the areas of trade, investment, agriculture, animal husbandry, education and tourism between China and the U.S. New England states. Madam Li Xiaolin expressed that the Chinese government attaches great importance to the Sino-U.S. local government cooperation and hopes to actively promote the pragmatic exchanges and cooperation between China and the U.S. New England states under the mechanism of China-U.S. Governors Forum. In the general session of NEGC’s annual meeting, Vice Governor Liu Guozhong gave an introduction of Heilongjiang Province’s economic and social development to all the delegates present and he expressed the willingness to further deepen the cooperation between Heilongjiang Province and the U.S. New England states. Madam Li Xiaolin Present at Business Meeting Mr. Peter Shumlin, Governor of Vermont, Mr. Dannel P. Malloy, Governor of Connecticut, Mr. Lincoln D. Chafee, Governor of Rhode Island, Mr. Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts and the representatives from the U.S. Embassy in China and the U.S. Department of State attended the meeting. They warmly welcomed the Chinese delegation and stated that China’s participation is beneficial to the enhancement of mutual understanding between the New England states and China, especially Heilongjiang Province, and thus beneficial to further promote the bilateral exchanges and cooperation at the local government level. Madam Li Xiaolin Meeting with Peter Shumlin, Governor of Vermont During the meeting, Madam Li Xiaolin and Vice Governor Liu Guozhong conducted one-on-one discussion with the four U.S. Governors mentioned above to explore the opportunities of future cooperation. The Chinese delegation also attended the High-Level Policy and Business Meeting together with Vermont state government officials of trade, agriculture, education and environmental protection to learn Vermont’s policy in the above areas and to identify opportunities of cooperation with China. Both sides agreed to strengthen exchanges and visits, and to expand the areas of cooperation in the future.

Meeting with Guo Shengkun, the Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangxi  In the morning of July 18, Li Xiaolin, the President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries attended and addressed the The 2012 Guangxi International Friendship Cities Conference. During the conference, President Li Xiaolin had a thorough discussion with Guo Shengkun, the Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on developing works of international friendship cities.

Co-hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), Foundation for Globalization Cooperation and Harvard Kennedy School, the fourth Globalization Forum, also known as Harvard Forum was held at Harvard University from June 18th to 20th, 2012. Up to 100 government officials, entrepreneurs, experts and scholars from China and the United States gathered together and had candid and thorough exchanges of views on topics of energy and resource governance, global economy governance, decision-making, culture and soft power in a global world etc. Mme. Li Xiaolin, president of CPAFFC co-chaired the forum and delivered a speech on culture and soft power.

Madam Li Xiaolin,President of the Chinese People''s Association For Friendship With Foreign Countries(CPAFEC), met with Mrs. Frances Adamson, Australian Ambassador to China in the auditorium of CPAFEC at 3pm, Jun 15th. . Madam Li said,this year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Australia, and our association would like to hold a reception in celebration of the anniversary together with Australian Embassy. The reception is expected to held in December and I wish there will be high-level visit from Australia to China by that time and members of the visiting delegation could attend the reception. Besides, we wish to invite several delegations and friendly groups from Australia to visit China this year. Any support and cooperation from Australian Embassy will be highly appreciated. Ambassador Frances Adamson responded that there have been frequent cultural exchanges between China and Australia at various levels, including those between state leaders, NGOs, provincial and municipal governments, as well as schools and research institutions. This has been a great phenomenon. Australian Embassy appreciates the great efforts CPAFFC has made to promote our people-to-people friendship through all these years, and understands the huge workloads behind the scene. The Embassy would like to support and contribute to CPAFFC''s friendly work towards Australia, especially regarding the 40th anniversary celebration activities.

President Li Xiaolin and H.E. Jorge Sampaio Signing MOU  At the invitation of H.E.Jorge Sampaio, High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Former President of Portugal, and H.E. Beir Atalay, Deputy Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey, a 5-person delegation of CPAFFC headed by President Li Xiaolin attended the first Partners Forum for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in Istanbul, Turkey. In her speech at the plenary meeting of the opening ceremony, President Li Xiaolin called on all nations of the world to discuss how to build bridges linking cultures through the Partners Forum to enhance mutual understanding and promote exchanges between different countries, nations and cultures, thus safeguarding world peace and stability. During the conference, President Li Xiaolin and H.E. Jorge Sampaio held a meeting and signed a MOU for enhancing the mutual cooperation, aiming at further promoting the friendly cooperative relation between the CPAFFC and UN Alliance of Civilizations.

  (March 30, 2012, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse) Respected Ms. Wang Zhizhen, Vice Chairwoman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, His Excellency Mr. Jimmy Willie, Ambassador of Vanuatu to China, and his spouse, Respected Mrs. Rosina Hilton, Spouse to Speaker of Parliament of Vanuatu, Respected Mrs. Mildred Sope, President of Vanuatu China Friendship Association, Dear guests, ladies and gentlemen, Good noon! We are hosting today’s event to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Vanuatu. First of all, on behalf of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and China Oceania Friendship Association, please allow me to extend our warmest welcome to all the friends from both China and other countries present here today. Among them are the Vanuatu-China Friendship Association (VCFA) delegation composed of spouses of Vanuatu Ministers, Ambassadors and diplomats from Vanuatu, New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea, Trade Representative from Pacific Island Forum, Special Envoy of China Pacific Island Countries Forum Dialogue, Representatives from Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Department of Central Committee of CPC, Chinese Ministry of Education, All-China Women’s Federation, Former Chinese Ambassadors to Vanuatu. China and Vanuatu are far away from each other in terms of geographic location, yet friendship and cooperation bring our two peoples together. On March 26, 1982, China and Vanuatu officially established the diplomatic relation. Over the past 30 years, through the efforts of both sides, a new partnership was built up between our two countries featuring sincerity, cooperation and mutual benefit, which set a good example for friendly and cooperative relations between China and Pacific island countries. The recent years have witnessed frequent high-level exchanges, and fruitful cooperation was carried out in various fields such as economy and trade, agriculture, education, aviation and jurisdiction. In 2010, the bilateral trade volume reached 23.26 million US dollars. To support Vanuatu’s endeavor to boost economic and social development, China has provided Vanuatu with economic and technological aid to the best of our ability. What’s moving is that, when massive earthquake hit China’s Sichuan province in 2008, Vanuatu President Mataskelekele and Prime Minister Lini extended their condolences respectively, and the Vanuatu government donated 50,000 US dollars to China. Facts proved that the development of friendly and cooperative relations between China and Vanuatu not only bring about concrete benefits to our two peoples, but also promote the stability and development of the Asia Pacific region. As one of the earliest national people’s organizations, the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries has been making unswerving efforts to promote friendly exchanges and cooperation between the people of China and of other countries around the world, including Vanuatu. To further facilitate the friendship cause with Oceanian countries, in 2005, we initiated and established China Oceania Friendship Association. In May 2008, I led a delegation to visit Vanuatu. During that visit, we met with top leadership of Vanuatu, including President Mataskelekele, Prime Minister Lini, and Speaker Avok, and experienced the hospitality of the Vanuatu people. Shortly after that visit, the Vanuatu-China Friendship Association was officially launched, which added new strength to the development of China-Vanuatu friendship. Today, we are more than happy to welcome the VCFA delegation. In the meantime, we are planning to organize a CPAFFC and COFA delegation to visit the beautiful Vanuatu later this May, in order to push forward the friendly relations and pragmatic cooperation between our two peoples. China and Vanuatu are both developing countries, faced with similar tasks of development. The two sides have broad areas for cooperation since we share a lot of common interests. We would like to take the 30th anniversary as an opportunity, to work with our Vanuatu friends and push the friendly exchanges and cooperation between the two countries to a new height. Last but not least, I wish a full success to the Vanuatu-China Friendship Association delegation for your visit in China. Now I’d like to propose a toast, To the friendship and cooperation between China and Vanuatu, To the health of Vice Chairwoman Wang Zhizhen, To the health of Ambassador Jimmy Willie and his spouse, To the health of all the friends present here today, Cheers!    

March 22nd 2012, Peach Palace Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, my dear friends: Good evening! With the advent of spring the land is vibrant with life again. I am so delighted to have 12 Honorary Advisers of the Asia NZ Foundation, coming from 10 different Asian countries, gathering here in Beijing and, for the first time in the history, holding the Honorary Advisers'''' Meeting in China.       On behalf of the Chinese People''''s Association for Friendship Foreign Countries, I''''d like to extend my warm welcome to the delegation of the Honorary Advisers and their companies, and also my appreciations to friends from NZ Embassy and relevant departments and organizations, as well as the young leaders from both sides.    This year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and New Zealand. We are delighted to see that, with the joint efforts of our two sides, the development of bilateral relations enjoys a gratifying momentum, with frequent high level exchanges and deepening political trust. Since the implementation of the China-NZ Free Trade Agreement, bilateral economic and trade ties have been developing rapidly, oriented toward all-round, multi-level and broad areas. We have also achieved further development of friendly exchanges and pragmatic cooperation in various fields.    As a friendly organization specializing in people-to-people relations, we have a good understanding that humanities exchanges serve as an important bridge for enhancing friendship between the people all over the world. In order to promote the understanding and friendship between the young people of our two countries, and help them building up a global awareness, CPAFFC and the Asia NZ Foundation launched a project on China-NZ Youth Exchange. In June 2010, witnessed by Vice President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister John Key, we signed an exchange of letters on the project. Up to now, we have successfully exchanged visits for three groups of young leaders. The fourth one is from China. They are going to visit New Zealand in May. As invited by us, they are also present here today.   On the fifth Session of the Eleventh National People''''s Congress, which just concluded a few days ago, Primer Wen Jiabao stressed in his government work report about the need to continue to make greater contributions to promoting world economic development, safeguarding peace and maintaining stability.      In a backdrop of the complicated international situation and uncertainties of the recovery of the world economic, China and New Zealand share broad common interests and enjoy great potential of cooperation in promoting national and regional economic growth, as well as maintaining regional and world peace, stability and prosperity.    Strengthening the bilateral ties not only conforms to the development trend of the times but also the common aspirations of our two peoples. On the basis of accommodating each other''''s concerns and core interests, we are ready to join hands with not only Asia NZ Foundation, but also the insightful people from Asian countries, to further deepen the mutually-beneficial cooperation in various fields including economy, trade, environmental protection, new energy and sustainable development, and to strengthen the communication and coordination in international and regional affairs. We will make unremitting efforts for the well-being of people in all countries and a lasting peace, prosperity and homony in the Asia-Pacific region and the whole world at large.   Time flies! Meeting with the Honorary Advisers presenting here tonight brought me back to the lovely memories in Auckland two years ago. I sincerely hope you will have equally unforgettable memories of the 2012 meeting too.     Again, I wish the Meeting of Honorary Advisers of Asia NZ Foundation a great success, and hope you have a good time in Beijing. Thank you.