Spring Festival is approaching, in order to show the exquisite and beautiful life of Suzhou, so that overseas Chinese in Suzhou to spend a peaceful and peaceful cultural year, on January 13, sponsored by the United Front Work Department of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Jade Culture Industry Association, the Municipal Jade Academy and the Municipal Jade Carving Art Museum, the "Overseas Chinese Gathering in Suzhou Yumi Jiangnan" Suzhou Overseas Chinese Representatives Welcome New Year Activity was held at the Suzhou Jade Carving Art Museum. Xu Yulian, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the Suzhou Municipal CPC Committee and director of the Municipal Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, attended the meeting, and more than 30 people from the city, including some overseas Chinese, relatives of returned overseas Chinese, and representatives of overseas Chinese students, attended the meeting.

It is understood that jade is known as the "beauty of stone", with the five virtues of benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, courage and cleanliness, which has been Chinese cultural complex since ancient times. As the carrier of Jiangnan culture, jade carving works have unique cultural collection value and play value. The event adopted a combination of "visit + lecture" to bring a vivid and interesting jade culture experience to the overseas Chinese.
At the scene, Three jade carving masters, including Fan Tongsheng, a Chinese jade carving master, Lin Nan, president of Suzhou Jade College, and Chen Jian, president of Suzhou Jade Culture Industry Association, analyzed and interpreted Suzhou jade carving in detail in plain and vivid language, so that everyone could further understand the cultural brand of "Su Zuo Jade Carving" and experience a different kind of Su-style elegant life.
On behalf of the United Front Work Department of the Suzhou Municipal CPC Committee (Overseas Chinese Affairs Office), Xu Yulian extended his heartfelt thanks and New Year greetings to the overseas Chinese and students who have long cared for and supported Suzhou, and through them expressed his most sincere greetings and best wishes to his relatives and friends overseas, hoping that the vast number of overseas Chinese and overseas students will continue to take root in Suzhou, work together to promote the development of industrial innovation clusters in the era of digital economy, be a "fresh force" for Suzhou's high-quality economic development, and build a "lianxin bridge" for Suzhou to the world.
It is reported that as the "mother's family" of the vast number of overseas Chinese compatriots in Suzhou, the United Front Work Department of the Suzhou Municipal CPC Committee has firmly established the work pattern of "great united front" and "great overseas Chinese affairs", insisted that wherever the party's central work is advanced, the united front will follow up wherever it goes, innovate work measures, and tell Chinese stories well and Suzhou stories well in the form of novel activities, unique contents, and immersive experiences, bring more interesting and better new experiences of "Jiangnan culture" to overseas Chinese compatriots, create the "most comfortable" business environment, and form a powerful joint force to promote Suzhou's high-quality development. (Zhu Lin)