U.S. White House before the five-star red flag raised the sixtieth anniversary of Qing China’s National Day
On the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of China’s National Day, a five-star red flag will be in the White House south lawn rising.
This surface will be the Chinese national flag at 10 o’clock on September 20 the greater Washington area by the United States of Chinese and overseas Chinese hands up. This is also the first time the Chinese national non-governmental organizations in the United States in front of the presidential palace is located up the White House.
Federation of Chinese American professional bodies in the Secretary-General Shuigen Xiao said at a press conference on the 12th, at present the overall activities of the National Day flag-raising ceremony has been approved by the U.S. government.
Washington DC American Association Association, said that the overseas Chinese scholars from the United States hosted the Washington, friends from various circles and communities of Washington, the first time to participate in China’s National Day flag-raising ceremony is to celebrate the 60 anniversary of National Day, the purpose in the expression of overseas Chinese hometown feelings of homesickness blood, unite overseas Chinese the spirit of solidarity.
ZHAO Lu, director of the group of flag-raising ceremony that the flag-raising ceremony will be held on the large-scale theatrical performance, around 1000, about his staff will participate in the flag-raising ceremony will showcase some performances of modern Chinese friendship, tolerance, goodwill of mental outlook.
As the initiators of the National Day flag-raising ceremony, the President of the United States Association of Fujian Rong-Hua Chen in an interview with reporters several times choking tears. New Year’s Eve night in 1989, passing the night alone Rong-Hua Chen of the United Nations building in New York, surging out of feelings of homesickness, he was more than 100 flagpoles find the root of China’s national flag, flagpole with tears, this time experience He promised a promise, both went to every person in the local or the national flag up.
The last two decades, Rong-Hua Chen’s home with five-star red flag was hoisted. Active in New York, he organized and chaired a number of patriotic activities when the fiftieth anniversary of National Day in 1999, Rong-Hua Chen was also the representative of China’s UN ambassador in New York Chinatown with hoisted the national flag. After 2000 he moved to Washington for nine consecutive years in the United States proposed to the central area of the capital, the flag-raising ceremony was held, but for various reasons, the desire to achieve this year.
Rong-Hua Chen told the Chinese press, this time in the United States granted the smooth front of the White House ceremony, held up the Chinese national flag, the background of the current Sino-US relations on the one hand, there are good factors, on the other hand, China as a responsible major power has become increasingly strong, especially in the Olympics last year, many Americans admire the Chinese.
Rong-Hua Chen was asked, do you love China, then China will be good or whether it is good the United States. Rong-Hua Chen replied: “I make a living in the United States, the United States is my boss, but I have brought up, she will always be my mother.”