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Married couple Fang Chuangjie were invited to the ceremony of welcoming Chairman Hu Jintao in the White House
  • Update:2007-04-27 09:55

Chairman Hu Jintao of the People’s Republic of China headed for U.S.A for the national affairs in the middle of April, there was a grand welcoming ceremony in U.S.A with 500 people attending, 5 representatives on half of the Chinese in San Francisco Were invited, among there were Mr. Fang Chuangjie, famous overseas Chinese in U.S.A with Kaiping native place and Mrs. Xie Jiexia. Mr. Fang Chuangjie even was invited to appear in the small-scale meeting, one of the 30 representatives, meeting Chairman Hu Jintao and President George W Bush, and greeted by these two leaders with a handshake.
Before Chairman Hu Jintao visited U.S.A., the related departments in U.S.A organized the reception affairs by all means to make sure the guest list of attending the welcome ceremony in the White House, Mr. Fang Chuangjie got the invitations respectively form Gary Locke, former governor of the State of Washington and the White House. Mr. Fang Chuangjie planned not to appear himself at the first time, but afterward, the White House got touch with him for many times by e-mail, he finally consented.
Mr.Fang Chuangjie and Mrs. Xie Jiexia were invited to Washington D.C. the capital city of the United States, attending the ceremony hosted by President George W Bush to welcome Chairman Hu Jintao. After the ceremony, before convening the news conference, there also was a small-scale meeting held in the White House with more than guests attending. Mr. Fang was the only one Chinese representative in San Francisco to meet President George W Bush and Chairman Hu Jintao, and was greeted by these two leaders with a handshake. To his deeply regret, there is a rule that cameras are forbidden in the White House, all the present guests could not bring a camera inside with them, so there was no any precious photos which will remember the history in the making left.
 
Married couple Fang Chuangjie visited several places during in Washington D.C., attended several official activities, exchanged the viewpoints on China and Sino-US relation with federal assemblymen and officials. Mr. Fang Chuangjie expressed that never in the history has China invaded other countries, China is a peace-loving country. Chairman Hu Jintao is a pacifist, “China Threat Statement” should not be talked about every day in the United State, the United State should scrupulously abide by the principle of One China, and support the Cross-Straits peaceful reunification.
According to the source, the admission tickets and the program bearing by the present guests were doubled in price after the event, became the precious cultural relics which desired to be collected by all the people, because there were only 500 pieces in the United States, they are the witness of the summit get-together of Sino-US leaders with unexampled history value. During Mr. Fang Chuangjie in Washington D.C., he had a quite an enjoyable talk with two federal assemblywomen, they presented themselves programs to him. Mr. Fang Chuangjie presented one to the alma maters which is Kaiping No. 1 Middle school in the hometown and Guangzhou Peiying Middle school, except for two pieces which treasured up by Mr. Fang Chuangjie himself.
For the purpose to make the local people to have a good look at the admission ticket and the program, Mr. Fang Chuangjie elaborately made some copies according to the original, sending back by mail, presenting to the alma maters which are Kaipin