BEIJING, May 26, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- A report from People's Daily: Chinese President Xi
Jinping sent a message to the 14th China-U.S. Tourism Leadership
Summit on May 22.
It is hoped that all walks of life in the two countries will
take this summit as an opportunity to have in-depth exchanges,
build consensus, and take active actions to promote personnel
exchanges through tourism cooperation, continue China-U.S.
friendship with cultural and people-to-people exchanges, and help
the San Francisco vision turn into
reality, Xi said.
Xi's message fully demonstrated the importance he attaches to
China-U.S. relations, conveyed his expectation to deepen China-U.S.
tourism cooperation, and expounded on the significance of tourism
cooperation in promoting stable, healthy and sustainable
development of China-U.S. relations, charting the course for the
two countries to strengthen tourism cooperation and
people-to-people exchanges.
For any great cause to succeed, it must take root in the people,
gain strength from the people, and be accomplished by the people.
Growing China-U.S. friendship is such a great cause.
Xi has repeatedly emphasized the significance of strengthening
non-governmental friendship and people-to-people exchanges in
developing bilateral relations between China and the United
States. He has interacted with people from all walks of life
in the U.S. for multiple times, aiming to foster a new chapter in
non-governmental friendship between the two peoples.
Last November, Xi and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden met with each other in San Francisco and laid out a future-oriented
"San Francisco vision." Xi
proposed five pillars for China-U.S. relations, namely, jointly
developing a right perception, jointly managing disagreements
effectively, jointly advancing mutually beneficial cooperation,
jointly shouldering responsibilities as major countries, and
jointly promoting people-to-people exchanges, which should serve as
the underpinning for the mansion of China-U.S relations.
Tourism is an important bridge for exchanges and mutual
understanding between the people of China and the U.S.
China and the U.S. are both
proud of their splendid culture and beautiful landscape and people
from both countries are keenly interested in learning more about
each other and cementing their friendship.
For some time, teams from both China and the U.S. have been working to
implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state in
San Francisco. China-U.S.
relations have been generally stabilized, and bilateral dialogue,
cooperation and positive aspects in various fields have
increased.
A number of relevant projects have been launched, including an
initiative of inviting 50,000 young Americans to China on exchange and study programs in the
next five years. The increased exchanges between the Chinese and
American societies have deepened mutual understanding between the
two peoples and brought them closer to each other.
China and the U.S. are two
major countries with different histories, cultures, social systems
and development paths. Strengthening dialogue and communication
between the two sides, promoting friendly exchanges between the two
peoples from all walks of life, and building more bridges of mutual
understanding will help eliminate unnecessary misunderstandings and
biases.
Expanding tourism cooperation between China and the U.S. will contribute to the
exchanges and cooperation between the two peoples, and build
consensus for the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of
China-U.S. relations.
As Xi said in the message, the foundation of China-U.S.
relations is laid by the people, the door of China-U.S. relations
is opened by the people, the stories of China-U.S. relations are
written by the people, and the future of China-U.S. relations will
be jointly created by the people of the two countries.
No matter how the global landscape evolves, the historical trend
of peaceful coexistence between China and the U.S. will not change. The
ultimate wish of the two peoples for exchanges and cooperation will
not change. The expectations of the whole world for a steadily
growing China-U.S. relationship will not change.
China and the U.S. should work
to meet the expectations of the two peoples and the world, and take
concrete measures to promote people-to-people and cultural
exchanges, including tourism cooperation. Both countries should
build more bridges and pave more roads for people-to-people
exchanges.
China warmly welcomes tourists
from all over the world, including American tourists, and will
strive to make it easier for foreigners to travel, work and live in
China.
China is willing to work
together with the U.S. to introduce more measures that facilitate
personnel and cultural exchanges.
China also hopes that the U.S.
will work in the same direction, increase direct flights between
the two countries, promptly adjust advisory concerning travel to
China, and facilitate visa
applications for Chinese citizens visiting the U.S., in order to
create better conditions for mutual visits between the two
countries' tourists.
It is hoped that that the two peoples will make more visits,
contacts and exchanges and write new stories of friendship in the
new era.
This year marks the 45th anniversary of the establishment of
diplomatic ties between China and
the United States. The two
countries should learn lessons from history, cherish peace, value
stability, and uphold credibility, consolidate the foundation and
tap into the potential of people-to-people friendship, and turn the
"San Francisco vision" into
reality, so as to truly stabilize, improve and move forward
China-U.S. relationship and inject more stability into the
world.
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