On October 15th local time, President Xi Jinping sincerely called on the National Committee on US China Relations and friends from all walks of life to continue to care for and support US China relations, stating that China is willing to be partners and friends with the United States, and to have more exchanges and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation.
Stephen Ullens, Chairman of the National Committee on US China Relations, is very excited about this. Orens said that President Xi Jinping once said that the foundation of China US relations lies in the people. President Xi Jinping's words are very important, "he said." We need to continue to enhance cultural exchanges between the two countries now
Since his trip to San Francisco in November 2023, President Xi Jinping has sent warm congratulatory and reply letters to the American people and various sectors of society. His sincere words in meetings and speeches have continuously strengthened a clear signal - he hopes that the people of the two countries will have more exchanges and interactions. With warm and powerful encouragement, old friends and children from Iowa, inheritors of the "Friends of Guling" and "Flying Tigers", mayors, scholars, and business people from the United States, have built bridges of communication across the Pacific and written new stories of friendship between the Chinese and American people.
Friendship is a big deal
On the evening of October 15th local time, Luca Bellon, a member of the board of directors of the Iowa Friendship Committee, returned to his home in Iowa after concluding his trip to China. On October 11th, he attended the China International Friendship Conference and the 70th anniversary commemoration of the establishment of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries in Beijing, and was collectively met with by President Xi Jinping.
A foreign friend once said to me, 'Friendship is a big deal. Only a world of friendship can be a world of peace.' It is the small stream of people's friendship that gathers the mighty force to promote world peace and development, and to build a community with a shared future for mankind. President Xi Jinping's words during the meeting left a deep impression on Belong.
President Xi Jinping's speech is visionary, "Beilong said. President Xi Jinping has a friendship with the people of Iowa that has lasted for nearly 40 years. Belon, who devoted himself to people to people exchanges between the two countries due to this friendship, recalled to reporters, "The more I visited various parts of China and talked to Chinese friends, the more I could appreciate President Xi Jinping's deep thoughts and care for deepening mutual understanding and friendly exchanges between the Chinese and American people
As long as we spend time together, we will naturally become friends, "said Mu Yanling, the convener of the American" Friends of Guling "who was also met by President Xi Jinping in Beijing, expressing her understanding of friendship to reporters.
From inviting the late American professor Gardner's wife to visit Guling in 1992, to telling the story of Guling to friendly groups during her visit to the United States in 2012, to sending congratulatory letters to the "Guling Yuan" China US People to People Friendship Forum and the "Guling Yuan" China US Youth Exchange Week in the past two years - President Xi Jinping personally promoted the Guling Friendship, which has become a beautiful story of friendly exchanges between the Chinese and American people.
Let the friendship between the Chinese and American people grow strong and endure like a thousand year old cedar tree on Guling Mountain "- President Xi Jinping's heartfelt message to the people of China and the United States has deeply moved Mu Yanling, who has traveled back and forth between the two countries countless times over the years. President Xi Jinping cares about the friendship between the American and Chinese people, which is very beautiful and important, "she said." The Guling story tells us that people from different countries and cultures, although they have differences, can work together to establish friendship and pass it down from generation to generation
Heart to heart friendship, mutual learning and mutual learning
During the National Day holiday, the "Remembering Heroes - Flying Tigers Theme Historical Picture Exhibition" at the Changsha Museum in Hunan Province attracted a group of visitors. Precious black and white photos, touching historical introductions, tell the story of the friendship between the Chinese and American people fighting side by side. Jeffrey Green, one of the organizers of the tour and chairman of the US China Aviation Heritage Foundation, said: "The friendship stories written by our ancestors will always be handed down, encouraging the people of the United States and China to work together for a new future."
President Xi Jinping has repeatedly talked about the friendship between the Flying Tigers and hopes that the spirit of the Flying Tigers can be passed down from generation to generation between the two peoples. Green sincerely agrees: "I hope more American teenagers can inherit the spirit of the Flying Tigers and contribute to the cause of US China friendship." He told reporters that the "Flying Tigers Friendship School and Youth Leader Program" has already been participated or signed up by 20 American schools and more than 40 Chinese schools.
In November 2023, President Xi Jinping announced at the Joint Welcome Banquet of American Friendship Groups held in San Francisco that China is willing to invite 50000 American teenagers to China for exchange and learning in the next five years. Since the beginning of this year, President Xi Jinping has repeatedly sent warm invitations to American youth, such as "experiencing a real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China firsthand", "making friends and learning from each other with Chinese youth", "perceiving China, experiencing China, and understanding China".
Since the beginning of this year, one group after another of President Xi Jinping's "little guests" have come across the ocean to appreciate the long history, experience technological progress, listen to friendly stories, and personally experience the real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China, while also gaining friendship.
"The warmth and friendliness of the Chinese people infected me" "The beauty and food of China are beyond imagination". After finishing his summer trip in China, Mitchell, an American student from Kean University, released a video on overseas social media, which had more than 10000 views in less than 24 hours.
Cultivate young envoys who are familiar with both China and the United States "- President Xi Jinping's warm message in his reply to President Ramon Repolet of Keane University in June this year has further boosted the enthusiasm for cooperation between the two sides, and Mitchell has become one of the first beneficiaries of the new cooperation.
Michael Connelly, a history major student at the University of Chicago, visited Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhejiang with students from Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, and other universities in the United States, accompanied by teachers and students from Peking University. As a researcher of Chinese history, he gained a firsthand and in-depth understanding of China's economic and social development for the first time. We visited Shanghai Yangshan Port, Boss Electric, Jike Motors, and others. China's development in the field of electric vehicles particularly impressed me
Leslie Ivara, a student from the University of Texas at Austin, along with 70 teachers and students from over a dozen schools in Dallas, Houston, New York, San Francisco, and other places in the United States, came to China to participate in the "Flying Tigers" themed summer camp. She said that through this exploration journey, she felt the "real China" and understood that "young people can learn from each other, eliminate prejudices, and create the future through communication". 
The hope for China US relations lies with the people
On October 15th local time, in anticipation of the American public, giant pandas "Baoli" and "Qingbao" arrived in the United States by special plane and will begin a 10-year residency at the National Zoo in Washington. At the 2024 National Committee on US China Relations Awards Dinner that day, Orens specifically shared this good news with the attendees.
Giant pandas are ambassadors of friendship between the Chinese and American people, "President Xi Jinping said at the joint welcome banquet of American friendship groups last year." We are willing to continue to cooperate with the United States on giant panda conservation.
The hope of China US relations lies in the people, the foundation lies in the people, the future lies in the youth, and the vitality lies in the locality. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, President of the Kuhn Foundation in the United States, told reporters that President Xi Jinping has maintained extensive exchanges with people from all walks of life in the United States over the years, repeatedly encouraging the two peoples to strengthen exchanges, which is exactly what the two countries need at present.
Since the beginning of this year, direct flights between China and the United States have increased, cultural and sports interactions have become hot, and the business community and local provinces and states have also had close exchanges. Multi field and multi-level cooperation has promoted personnel exchanges, and cultural exchanges have continued the friendship between China and the United States.
"Let me pick you up and give it to someone else's home. Jasmine flowers, jasmine flowers..." On May 22, the 14th China US High level Dialogue on Tourism opened in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. Chinese and American students sang the good will of the two peoples to deepen exchanges and dialogue with a melodious song, Jasmine Flowers.
On May 29th, during the China US Bay Area Dialogue held in Berkeley, California, California Governor Newson said that as important bay areas in the world, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area have broad common interests in jointly addressing climate change, new energy technologies and industries, sustainable development, and other fields. He looks forward to both sides putting their consensus into practice and achieving positive cooperation results.
On July 19th, at the 6th China US Friendship Conference held in Tacoma, Washington, D.C., Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards sincerely stated to nearly 300 representatives from both China and the United States that the friendship relationship "enables us to build bridges of friendship and cooperation that transcend national borders".
It is the gentle flow of goodwill and friendship that makes the vast Pacific no longer a barrier. President Xi Jinping's sincere call for the future will continue to promote mutual travel between the peoples of the two countries, build more bridges of mutual understanding and affinity between the two sides of the Pacific, and contribute to enhancing the friendship between the peoples of China and the United States.