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Dear Friends,

Hello everyone, I am Larry Lee, the founder and Executive Officer of the United States and China Foundation. In 1986 I was invited to pursued advanced study in Duke University(The forerunner of Sino-US relation: the former President Nixon’s Alma mater ) in North Carolina, America. So far at that time, though China and America had already set up the tie, their people still have much understanding of each other, even some misunderstanding existed due to the long time estrangement. As part of the new generation who have strong sense of history, duty and mission, I and some of my friends and schoolmates deeply sensed the need and urgency of building the bridge of China-America communication to melt away their misunderstanding and distrust. This idea received wide agreement and support from Americans including my tutor the Pro.Jefferson and Dr.Philipps as well as two Chinese ambassadors Chai Zemin and Han Xu. Based on several years discussion, exploration, exchanges of idea and preparation, the US-China Foundation a NGO institute was formally registered and set up in America. With 20 years of determination, joint and continuing efforts, USCF has built up a bridge of friendship to understand, communicate, learn from each other and share opinions. What is worthy to be mentioned, the “US-China forum” initiated by USCF was the first large forum hosted by NGO in the history of Sino-US relations with a wide range of discussions related to all aspects of Bilateral relations. This forum saw publicly as the highest level, the biggest scale and the widest influences people to people exchanges event. The US-China Forum has been organized in China Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Dalian also in US San Francisco, Silicon Valley. It has become an important platform for Sino-US people to people exchange.

With the development of USCF, it established many offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Jinan, Haikou and also in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Some famous Chinese and American people such as Chai Zemin, the first China’s ambassador to US served as USCF’s Honorary Chairman and Chief Advisory; The former China’s ambassador to the UN Qin Huasun, President of the China United Nations Association and the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Jin Yongjian; Former header of the Foreign Department of the Foreign Ministry in America. Chinese Ambassador in Canada, Vice-Director of Political Consultative Conference Foreign Affairs Committee Zhang Yijun had become the formal advisors of USCF.

During the past twenty years, with the support, encouragement and engagement of numerous friends both from China and America, the USCF innovated, designed and sponsored a large number of events and activities in the course of sino-US communication, which cover almost all areas and fields of life. In my mind it is a career of happiness and is full with sense of achievement, because this career is closely bond with the souls of 1.6 billion people in China and America as well as with the significance of harmony, peace and co-existence on the earth. “Make good friends, based in Sino-US, contribute to the whole world”, with this mission, USCF has got more and more supports from China and America.

Even though the headquarter of USCF used to located in world trade center N.Y, was destroyed in 9.11 terrorism attack. People’s faith in USCF has not been ruined but became stronger and persistent. And we are still in the process of pushing its deal and belief forward and attracting more and more Chinese and American people with consensuses to join in a career that builds harmonious bilateral relation and harmonious world.


 

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