Guangdong Friendship Delegation and Guangdong Art Troupe Visited the Federated States of Micronesia
2011-07-24 17:05
The Guangdong Friendship Delegation and Guangdong Art Troupe visited the Federated States of Micronesia from July 15th to July 21st.
Courtesy Call on Ambassador Zhang Weidong
The Friendship Delegation met with His Excellency President Emanuel Mori, His Honorable Vice President Alik Alik, Foreign Affairs Secretary His Honorable Lorin Robert, Resources and Development Secretary His Honorable Marion Henry and other officials of the National Government. They discussed the issues of both concern, such as bilateral relations, economic cooperation and culture exchanges and so on. The Friendship Delegation also met with the leaders of Pohnpei State and Chuuk State, and exchanged views on tourism, fishery cooperation.
Courtesy Call on President Mori and Vice President Alik Courtesy Call on Secretary Robert
Courtesy Call on Secretary Henry Courtesy Call on Secretary Skilling
Courtesy Call on Pohnpei Administration Leaders Courtesy Call on Chuuk Administration Leaders
The Art Troupe gave three good will performances, Ode to Friendship as the theme, respectively in the FSM. The first two shows were in the evenings of 16th and 17th in the FSM-China Friendship Sports Center of the College of Micronesia, national campus, Pohnpei State, and the last one was in the morning of 20th in the Saramen Chuuk Development Center, Chuuk State. Nearly 5 thousands local people watched the performances.
Wonderful Performance
His Excellency President Emanuel Mori, Vice President Alik Alik, Foreign Affairs Secretary Lorin Robert together with other officials and senators of the 17th Congress of the FSM and the Ambassadors from the United States, Japan and Australia watched the performances accompanied by His Excellency Ambassador Zhang Weidong of the People's Republic of China. All seats have been occupied and many people have to sit on the ground or stand to watch. Martial Arts, Acrobatics, Singing and Dancing, opera and Chinese traditional instruments show attracted large numbers of audience.
All the Performers' Collection Photo with President Mori All the Performers' Collection Photo with Vice President Alik
China and the FSM enjoy a good relationship between each other. Both sides have wide cooperation in varieties of fields including political, economic and commercial, educational and so on. Cultural exchange is one of the important aspects of their cooperation. Most programs of the performance by the Guangdong Art Troupe took on typical Chinese style. The FSM people got a better understanding of Chinese Culture and its people after watching these performances.