Wang Donghua, Chinese Consul General in San Francisco, received more than 60 graduates from the Bay Area studying in China at his official residence, including witnesses, builders, and promoters of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.
Consul General Wang Donghua and a number of deputy consuls general and officials of the Consulate took a group photo with students studying in China.
(1) Thomas Gold: Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, witness to the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States for 40 years, and the first generation of American students sent to China.
Gao Dimin said that 40 years ago, he was sent to the Beijing Language Institute as one of the first batch of public students to study, and then transferred to the Department of Modern Literature of the Department of Chinese at Fudan University in Shanghai, when the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China had just ended, and he felt that its significance had had a great impact on China's future development.
Since then, he has often traveled to Shanghai's People's Square, where people have talked passionately, hoping to learn more about the United States from him, and people are very eager to know more about the outside world.
After China's reform and opening up, Shanghai's People's Square is no longer the People's Square of the past, Shanghai's infrastructure construction, hardware, software construction, and the younger generation continues to grow through a variety of channels, the world view is stronger, so that he feels that the door of China's opening up can not be closed.
For the challenges faced by the United States and China, Gao Dimin said that he has worked hard for all aspects of exchanges and friendship between the United States and China in his life, if the two countries are not good, he feels that he is wasting the efforts of himself and many people, for the restrictions of the US federal government on Chinese students, he believes that the United States should have an open attitude towards international students and visiting scholars from any country in the world, which will promote world peace, and China should also provide a better research environment for foreign scholars, and now there are some negative situations in interaction. But the exchanges between the people are friendly, and for the sake of friendship between the two countries, he will continue to fight for it at any time.
Thomas Gold (right) shows Consul General Wang Donghua an old photograph of him studying in Shanghai.
(2) Adam Wright: Yunnan Normal University students studying in China, as the organizer of the party, on behalf of the students studying in China, he thanked Consul General Wang Donghua for his warm hospitality.
WuYou said that in 1998 in Kunming, the hot climate for growing up in the Bay Area he did not feel the beauty of the four seasons of Kunming, the ride experience during the study abroad, the jokes and mistakes encountered, so that his Chinese continue to improve, just like rubbing "mahjong" with friends, he listened to "paste" into "clothes", called a few years later to find out that it was wrong. The study abroad period made him feel the enthusiasm and friendliness of the Chinese, and it was also the most impressive and valuable time for him, and the study abroad period not only allowed him to learn the knowledge of Chinese, but also learned to be a person and participate in the knowledge of the international community.
He stressed that no matter what the current situation between the United States and China is, their gathering truly reflects the friendly feelings of the Americans toward China, friendship knows no borders, and wishes the United States and China a long and lasting friendship.
Adam Wright is the organizer of the student reunion in China.
JON STEWART: Software engineer, promoter of the development of friendship and trade between the United States and China.
Jon laughs and says that his Chinese others think they are very fluent at first hearing, but then he finds out that this is not the case. At the age of 6, Jon began to contact and learn Chinese because of his father's work, which was also the beginning of China's trade with the United States, but it was not long, and it was not until the 90s that he formally and systematically learned Chinese, and finally achieved his career between China and the United States. After 1998, he helped American retail and automobile companies enter the Chinese market under favorable conditions. At the same time, it helps Chinese investment companies and film and television businesses to enter the United States for investment and exchange. He very much agrees that the United States and China are two big countries, and he hopes that the United States and China can solve problems in the way of big countries.
Jon Stewart is a promoter of U.S.-China friendship.
(iv) Justin alsamarrai grew up in San Jose.
In 2011, when they went to the roadside food stall to eat, because the hostess 10 yuan as 4 yuan, he immediately invited 24 classmates to a bottle of beer, and when it came to checkout, he once blamed the math teacher for not being responsible, and finally found the relationship between four and ten, which made him determined to learn Chinese well, and finally let Justin be able to say the "four and ten" tongue twister with imagination on any occasion.
Justin alsamarrai tells the funny story of his study abroad in China.
(5) Juliet Lu: Native Chinese.
At the age of 17, she met her grandparents for the first time, because her parents rarely mentioned chinese relatives to her, so that when her grandparents came to the United States, she did not know how to communicate with them, her grandmother patiently began to teach her Chinese from the table and chair, so she decided to choose to study a semester of Chinese after college, she thought that a semester of study was enough to cope, so she decided to go back to Guangzhou, China to visit her grandparents, when she got on the plane to know that her Chinese was completely unmotivated, when she met relatives in Guangzhou, She couldn't understand what they were saying at all, but there was no problem in communicating with her grandparents, and she found her self-confidence, and this self-confidence was due to her grandfather's teeth, and everyone else could not hear it clearly, haha ~~!
After experiencing that short period of time relying on her grandmother's translator to communicate, she finally chose to study in Beijing when she was in college, and the two years of study abroad experience not only improved her Chinese level, but also made her aware of her family's history and some Chinese culture and customs, and also encouraged her two younger brothers to learn Chinese and understand their own history and culture.
Juliet learns Chinese learn about family history.
Ben: A code farmer who loves Chinese.
Born in Chicago, Ben (ben) chose Chinese when he took a foreign language for 8 years in high school, because in the class, mathematics, history and other courses did not let him mention God, but in the Chinese class let him find passion, under the passion prompted him to continue to learn Chinese for more than 10 years.
Ben said that when he was 18 years old, he traveled to China for the first time with his family, and then he went to Beijing, Shanghai and other big cities in China about every two years, although he could communicate with people with Chinese, he still did not understand Chinese culture, and because he was a code farmer, it was basically difficult to have contact with Chinese, which made him encounter difficulties in practicing Chinese. In recent years, he has liked to go to Xi'an, Jiangxi, Yunnan and other inland cities and rural places, and what makes him feel deeply is the coffee culture of Yunnan, because he likes it, he wants to bring the coffee culture of Yunnan back to the United States.
(vii) Seong Hyeon Kim - Current student.
Because of his participation in the Chinese Bridge activities, he fell in love with the Chinese musical instrument - gourd silk, and could play special songs such as "Phoenix Tail Bamboo in the Moonlight", with melodious tunes and beautiful melodies, so that people could see his love for Chinese art and culture.
Seong hyeon kim plays his favorite Chinese instrument, the gourd silk.