"Old friends of the Chinese people" is the official term of the Chinese government to those important foreign people who have been friendly to China for a long time, who come from all over the world, have visited China many times, show great enthusiasm for China, and have done a lot of practical things for the Chinese on the land of China.
According to the People's Daily, between 1949 and 2010, there were a total of 601 international friends, known as "old friends of the Chinese people", who came from more than 123 countries on five continents of the world, which can be said to be all over the world. These "old friends" have different nationalities, different genders, different statuses, engaged in different occupations, no matter what era, how the definition of the title has changed, their friendship with China is well known.
Wen Youzhang (1899-1993)
James Gareth Endicott, a Canadian missionary.
Born in Leshan, Sichuan, Wen Youzhang moved with his parents to Toronto, Canada, and grew up to become a missionary. In 1925, Wen Youzhang came to China to teach at west China Union University and West China Association. In 1940, Wen Youzhang served as a political adviser to Chiang Kai-shek. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wen Youzhang sympathized with the revolution and opposed Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he wrote an article exposing the use of germ weapons by the United States in the Korean War. In 1956, people's daily wrote an article calling Wen Youzhang "an old friend of the Chinese people." This is the first use of this term. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wen Youzhang visited China many times, and died in Canada in 1993, and part of his ashes were scattered into the Dadu River in Leshan.
Prince Sihanoukville (1922-2012)
Norodom Sihanouk, Roman pinyin Norodom Sihanouk, former King of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Founding Father of Cambodia,
Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Prince Sihanouk is a descendant of the two royal families of Norodom and Sisowa, and became head of state in Cambodia in 1960, a coup d'état in Cambodia in 1970, Sihanouk exiled to China, and returned to Cambodia after the liberation of Phnom Penh in 1975. Sihanouk has visited China many times and has also been treated and recuperated in China many times, and Sihanouk died in Beijing in 2012.
Edgar Snow (1905-1972)
Edgar Snow, English name Edgar Snow, is a well-known American journalist.
In 1928, Snow came to China and worked as a correspondent and correspondent in Several Newspapers in Europe and the United States, and also taught at Yenching University in Peking. In 1936, Snow visited the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, becoming the first Western journalist to cover the Red Zone, and the well-known "Red Star Shines on China" tells the story of his various observations during his visit. In 1942, Snow left China, and after the founding of New China, he visited China three times, and in 1972 Snow died in Switzerland, and part of his ashes were buried on the shores of the unnamed lake of Peking University.
Anna Louis Strong (1885-1970)
Anna Louise Strong, american progressive woman journalist and author.
Strong was born in Nebraska and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. In 1925, she first came to China to report on the provincial and Hong Kong strikes, and in 1927, she came to China again to report on the Hunan peasant movement and the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, she came to China twice and reported on the anti-war activities of the military and civilians in the Liberated Areas. On her fifth visit to China in 1946, she reported on the yan'an revolution. She came to China for the sixth time in 1958 and has since settled in China, where she died in 1970.
Agnes Smedley (1892-1950)
Agnes Smedley, english name Agnes Smedley, is a well-known American journalist, author and social activist.
Born in Missouri, Smedley spent his early years at The New York Call and was arrested for his solidarity with the Indian independence movement. In 1928, Smedley came to China and in 1936 went to Yan'an, where he focused on propagating the Red Revolution in China. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, she was the first foreign correspondent accompanying the Eighth Route Army. In 1941, Smedley returned to the United States due to illness and died in 1950.
Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923-)
Henry Alfred Kissinger, English name Henry Alfred Kissinger, is a well-known American diplomat, expert on international issues, and former U.S. Secretary of State.
Born in Felt, Germany, Kissinger is of Jewish descent and later emigrated to the United States, where he played an important role in the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, thus winning the favor of the Chinese.
Julius Evans (1898-1989)
Julius Evans, Joris Iven, Dutch documentary filmmaker and producer.
Evans participated in the Dutch student movement in his early years, founding the first film club in the Netherlands, the Film League Club. Evans focused on documentaries, with 1938 filming "Forty Thousand People", a documentary about the Chinese People's War of Resistance, and in 1956 "Five Songs" about the lives of women in Brazil, China, France, Italy and the Soviet Union. In 1958, after a visit to Chinese mainland, "Early Spring" was filmed about the new Chinese people's style. In 1972, he returned to China and made several documentaries about China. Evans died in Paris, France, in 1989.
Grigory Alimović Kurischenko (1903-1939)
Grigory Alimovich Kurischenko, Captain of the Volunteer Brigade of the Soviet Air Force, Colonel of the Usstroika Air Force.
In 1939, Kurishenko was sent by the Soviet government to lead two "Dasha" bomber brigades to China to support the War of Resistance Against Japan. On October 14 of the same year, Kulishenko was tragically killed in the air battle in Wuhan and was hailed as "the life-and-death friend of the Chinese people".
Norman Bethune (1890-1939)
Bethune, formerly known as Norman Bethune, is a well-known Canadian doctor and internationalist warrior as we know him.
Bethune graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine, and in 1938, he took the Canadian-American medical team to Yan'an and was appointed as a health adviser to the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army. Between 1938 and 1939, Bethune led a medical team deep into the front line of Yanbei and Jizhong in Shanxi, traveling 750 kilometers and performing more than 300 surgeries. In 1939, Bethune died of an infection while rescuing the wounded, and was hailed as a "close friend of the Chinese people".
Devakanas Santaram Kodinis (1911-1942)
Devakanas Santaram Kodinis, also known as Kodihua, is an Indian physician who aided China.
Born in Mumbai, India, Ke dihua came to China in 1938 with the Indian medical team to support the War of Resistance Against Japan. In 1939, Ke Dihua went to Yan'an and joined the Eighth Route Army Medical Pair, mainly working in the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1942 and died of an epileptic seizure in December of the same year.
Bijoé Kumarbasu (1912-1986)
Bijoai Kumarbasu, also known as Basuhua, is an Indian physician aiding China.
Born in Dhaka, India, Basuhua came to China in 1938 with a medical team to aid China and arrived in Yan'an in 1939. He served as the chief surgeon of the General Hospital of the Eighth Route Army, treated the wounded and sick in the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, participated in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1940. He returned to India in 1943 and died in 1986.
Israel Epstein (1915-2005)
Israel Epstein is a well-known Polish journalist.
Epstein was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, and moved to China with the family in 1917. Epstein worked mainly in journalism and was a journalist for the English-language Beijing-Tianjin Times. In 1951, at the invitation of Soong Ching-ling, Epstein came to China to participate in the founding of China Construction. He became a Chinese citizen in 1957 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1964, dying in 2005.
George Heiden (1910–1988)
George Heiden, also known as Ma Haid, is a well-known American physician.
Born in the state of New York, Maheide graduated from the University of Geneva in Switzerland in 1933 with a doctorate in medicine. In the same year, he came to Shanghai, China to investigate oriental tropical diseases. In 1936, Ma Haide went to the security guards to investigate the situation of the Red Army. In 1937, Ma Haide joined the Communist Party of China. In 1950, Ma Haide officially joined the Chinese nationality, the first foreigner to join the Chinese nationality after the founding of New China. In 1988, Ma Haide died in Beijing.
Han Suyin (1917-2012)
Han Suyin, English name Elisabeth Comber, is a British-Chinese female writer and social activist.
Han Suyin, whose ancestral home is Guangdong, was born in Xinyang, Henan, graduated from Yenching University and studied in Belgium. In 1941, Han Suyin traveled to England with her diplomat husband and published a series of novels reflecting Chinese life and history, which caused a sensation in the Western world. After the founding of New China, Han Suyin visited China many times and was awarded the title of "Friendly Messenger of Chinese and People". In 2012, Han Suyin died in Switzerland.
Kakuei Tanaka (1918-1993)
Kakuei Tanaka is a Japanese politician and architect.
Born in Kakuwa-gun, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, Kakuei Tanaka attended a private chuo-engineering school in his early years, and became prime minister of Japan in 1972. During his term of office, he visited China and signed the "Japan-China Joint Statement," which promoted the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations and was an important figure in the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. Kakuei Tanaka died in Tokyo in 1993.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922-2016)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Gurry served as Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister, and secretary-general of the United Nations in 1992. During his tenure, he actively promoted the expansion of United Nations peacekeeping operations and participated in many international affairs. In 2016, Gurry died of illness.
Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920-2010)
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Samaranch, a Spaniard, served as President of the International Olympic Committee for 21 years, and during his tenure, the Olympic Games were successfully commercialized, even as the IOC emerged from the finance minister crisis. He is particularly interested in sports in China, where he was able to return to the International Olympic Committee in 1997 and successfully bid for the Olympic Games in 2008. Samaranch died in Spain in 2010.
Fidel Castro (1926-2016)
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Born in the Province of Olguín, Cuba, Castro was admitted to the University of Havana at an early age and actively participated in the patriotic student movement. In 1956, he overthrew the Batista regime in Cuba and in 1961 he was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Republic of Cuba. Castro died in Cuba in 2016.
Nelson Rolihrahra Mandela (1918-2013)
Nelson Rolihrahra Mandela, South Africa's first black president, is revered as the "Father of the Nation of South Africa".
Born in Transkei, South Africa, And graduated from the University of Witwatersrand, Mandela was imprisoned several times for his anti-apartheid campaign, serving 27 years in prison. Mandela began his presidency of South Africa in 1994 and has won praise from all walks of life in South Africa and the world, and has won numerous awards. In 2013, Mandela died in Johannesburg.
Louis Eli (1897-1987)
Louis Eyley, Rewi Alley, is a well-known Educator and Author in New Zealand.
Born in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, Eli fought in Europe with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. In 1927, Ai Li came to China and served in the Fire Department of the Ministry of Works of the Shanghai Public Concession. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he launched the "Industrial Cooperation" movement and served as a technical adviser to the Executive Yuan to consult the work of "Industrial Cooperation". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ai Li was mainly engaged in writing, and was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen" by the governments of Beijing and Gansu Province. In 1987, Ai Li died of illness in Beijing.
Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria de Bourbon-Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1938-)
Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria de Bourbon-Bourbon-Two Sicilies, also known as Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, former King of Spain.
Born in Rome and inaugurated as King of the Kingdom of Spain in 1975, Juan Carlos I was cheerful, informal, sports-loving, and visited China twice in 1978 and 1995, facilitating exchanges between China and Spain. Juan Carlos I officially abdicated in 2014.
Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (1931-2007)
Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin, the first President of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Born in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Republic, Yeltsin served as First Secretary of the Moscow Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Republic, and in 1991 was elected President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. During his tenure, he introduced a series of political and economic reforms called "shock therapy", and his last visit to China was in Moscow in 2007.
Rahman Abdul Raough Arafat Gudwa Al-Husseini (1929-2004)
Rahman Abdul Raouff Arafat Gudwa Al-Husseini, also known as Yasser Arafat, Isle President of the Palestinian National Authority (Autonomous Government).
Arafat participated in the Middle East war four times, devoted his life to the establishment of Palestine, visited China many times, and established diplomatic relations with China after the establishment of Palestine in 1988. He advocated a policy of peace and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Arafat died in Paris, France, in 2004.
Kim Dae-jung (1924-2009)
Kim Dae-jung, former president of South Korea, South Korean politician and social activist, is known as the "Mandela of Asia".
Born in Sin'an-gun, Jeollanam Province, Kim Dae-jung worked as a journalist, engaged in the struggle for democracy, was arrested and imprisoned many times, was elected president of South Korea in 1988, and during his term of office, the South Korean economy was revived, and he attached great importance to relations with Asian countries, visited China many times, and improved relations with China. He died in 2009 in Seoul, South Korea due to illness.
Richard Millhouse Nixon (1913-1994)
Richard Millhouse Nixon, Richard Milhous Nixon, a well-known American politician, was the 37th President of the United States.
Because of the "Watergate Incident", Nixon's reputation in the United States is not good, and he is also the first president in Us history to resign during his term of office, but his reputation in China is very good, because he is the first US president to visit China during his term of office, which is the core figure who contributed to the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States. Nixon died of a stroke at his home in New Jersey in 1994.
Julius Kambaraji Nyerere (1922-1999)
Julius Kambarage Nyerere, founder of the United Republic of Tanzania and the Tanzania Revolutionary Party, was the first President of Tanzania after the founding of the State.
Nyerere was one of the early leaders of the African national liberation movement and one of the representatives of the African attempt at socialism, the "Father of the Nation" and "Mentor" of Tanzania, who ruled for 25 years and had an important impact on the course of modern Tanzania's history. Nyerere died in London, England, in 1999.
Kenneth David Kaunda (1924-)
Kenneth David Kaunda, Father of the Zambia and first President of Zambia.
Kaunda was one of the early leaders of the African National Liberation Movement, one of the exponents of the African socialist attempt, and a senior leader of the Organization of African Unity (African Union) and the Non-Aligned Movement, zambia, which ruled for 27 years after independence, stepped down in 1974.
Special writer of "Night Wolf Literature and History Studio": Chrysanthemum Tea
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