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——Delegation of Civic Association “Polish House” Visited China Zhang Yaowu At the invitation of the Chinese Association for International Understanding (CAFIU), a 6-member delegation of Civic Association “Polish House”, headed by the Secretary of its Board Mr. Tadeusz Gajewski, visited Beijing and Hunan Province from December 1 to 6. Founded in 1994, Civic Association “Polish House”, as a member organization of “European House”, is composed of social celebrities and influential activists in Polish political, economic, cultural and sports sectors. Soon after its establishment, Polish House carried out friendly cooperation with CAFIU and became an important force in promoting China-Polish people-to-people exchanges. This time, the delegation aimed to have a better understanding of the latest achievements of China’s reform and opening-up in recent years and the most up-to-date information about the overall deepening of reform in order to consolidate bilateral friendship. It also wanted to conduct exchanges with Chinese partners concerning legal construction, culture and education, social security system to enhance further cooperation between China and Poland in agriculture, business and commerce, internet technology. Member of CPPCC National Committee, former Vice-Minister of International Department of CPC Central Committee, Vice-President of CAFIU Mr. Ai Ping and Vice-Minister of IDCPC Central Committee Mr. Zhou Li respectively met with the delegation. Mr. Ai highly praised the long-time efforts made by Polish House to promote people-to-people exchanges between China and Poland as well as central and eastern European countries. He expressed that as China is getting unprecedentedly active involvements in economic globalization, CAFIU and Polish House should make full use of their advantages, enhance exchanges in the process of globalization and the building of One Belt And One Road, and make new contribution to the sustainable and steady growth of China-Polish strategic partnership. During the meeting, they also exchanged views on China’s overall deepening of reform, China-Polish relations, the newly-held Central Conference on Work Relating to Foreign Affairs, and other international and regional issues of common concerns. Vice-Minister Zhou Li fully affirmed that Polish House and people-to-people exchanges between China and Poland play an important role in consolidating China-Polish relations. He asked the delegation to convey his cordial greetings and sincere thanks to Mr. Wieslaw Klimczak, the time-honored friend of the Chinese people, for his unremitting efforts to enhance friendly people-to-people exchanges between China and Poland. He stated that China-Polish relationship maintains a rather good development momentum with great potentials in various sectors; China is willing to work together with Poland to promote the mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Central & Eastern European countries, and push forward the sound and steady development of China-Polish overall strategic partnership. Vice-Minister Zhou also briefed the delegation on the decision to comprehensively promote the rule of law in China made in the 4th Plenum of the 18th CPC Central Committee. They also discussed on new methods and approaches to build up closer connections between China and Poland. In Beijing, CAFIU Secretary-General Ni Jian and Deputy Secretary-General Zheng Yao respectively met and discussed with the delegation. The delegation also visited China Economic Cooperation Center and the Ministry of Agriculture with some thoughts of cooperative programs to promote bilateral economic and commercial exchanges. During their visit in Hunan Province, Mme. Xiao Bailing, Director of the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Hunan Province met with the delegation and hosted a welcome dinner. The delegation also participated in the Seminar on Hunan-Poland Exchanges and Cooperation, and visited Changsha National Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone and Guangming Village, a pilot village in the Construction of New Socialist Rural Area in Wangcheng County. During their stay in China, Mr. Tadeusz and other members of the delegation fondly stated that CAFIU is a time-honored friend and the most important partner of Polish House in Asia. Ever since the establishment of bilateral relations, the friendship of the two associations is enduring and embracing new prospects. The two associations have continuously carried out exchange visits, study tours, international seminars, and economic cooperation to enhance friendship and state-to-state relations between China and Poland. The International Conference “Europe-China: The Role of NGOs”, co-organized by CAFIU and Polish House, was held in Warsaw in 2012, marking a new phase of cooperation between the two associations. The delegation expressed that Polish House will always work together with CAFIU to open new chapters of cooperation with rich content and innovations. It is the first time for the 6 delegates to visit China. And what they seen and heard were amazing to them. When visiting the Guangming village in Wangcheng County, all delegated looked very excited. Located in the west with about 60 kilometers to Changsha city, Guangming village is a rather big mountain village with convenient transportation facilities and geographic advantages. There are more than 900 households with a population of 3,500 and a total area of 7.5 square kilometers. It became the Pilot Village in the Construction of New Socialist Rural Area in Hunan Province in 2008. With enterprises and factories, schools, hotels, restaurants, home of respect for the aged being situated on a beautiful landscape of lakes and mountains with many tourists, this village is a green, environment friendly, tourists-attracted holiday resort in Hunan Province. The delegation listened carefully about the hard works and unremitting efforts made by the villagers who were led by the Party Branch to build their homeland into such a wonderful place. They also took group photos with local students in primary school who were just doing outdoor exercise. The delegates also visited Asian largest butterfly breeding and research center, and walked into local resident’s house and tasted local green food. All delegates stated that although it was a short-time visit with tight schedule, they were deeply impressed by Chinese enterprises, factories, rural areas and transportation facilities which displayed the prosperity of social life and economic development as well as the happiness and high spirit of the Chinese people. These were quite different from the slanted reports by some western media. Mr. Janusz Cieslak, President of the European Business Club expressed that facts have shown that over 30 years of reform and opening-up is a correct road for China, and the overall deepening of reform and the rule of law decided in the 3rd and 4th Plenums of the 18th CPC Central Committee will not only bring benefits to the Chinese people but also have influence on the order of global politics and economy. Mr. Tadeusz stressed that Poland is sincerely hoping that China can make greater success, and Poland can enjoy the driving force of One Belt And One Road advocated by President Xi Jinping, get on China’s high-speed train of development to help its growth, and take new steps to promote China-Poland and China-Europe relations.