On September 30, 2024, Ms. Zhou Xiaofang, co-founder and president of the Zhou Enlai Peace Institute of the United States, and Mr. Yang Mingwei, president of the Zhou Enlai Thought and Life Research Association, held their first meeting at the Beijing Central Institute of Party History and Literature.
President Yang is the director of the Foreign Affairs Administration of the Foreign Cooperation and Exchange Bureau of the Central Academy of Party History and Literature. Also present at the meeting were Mr. Liang Chen, Director of the Foreign Affairs Management Division of the Foreign Cooperation and Exchange Bureau of the Central Academy of Party History and Literature, Deputy Secretary-General of the Zhou Enlai Research Branch, and Ms. Sang Yuepeng, Senior Researcher.
Participants shared information on their current research work and activities. President Yang said that the work of the Zhou Enlai Peace Institute is of immeasurable value and is of great importance to the world.
The two sides agreed to send Chinese scholars to Hawaii for in-depth exchanges and cooperation. President Zhou spoke about the establishment of the Zhou Enlai Peace Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, which coincides with the desire of former Hawaii Governor John Waihe’e to make Hawaii the “Geneva of the Pacific.“
The two parties discussed further cooperation in the form of film and television media communication, and the Zhou Enlai Peace Center becoming a world landmark.
They agreed that closer exchanges in the future will also contribute to the study of the fundamentals of international peace and the important role that Zhou Enlai plays in the world as China’s peacemaker.
Finally, President Yang Mingwei and President Zhou Xiaofang exchanged publications, including “Zhou Enlai’s Diplomacy“, “Zhou Enlai” and “Out of the Dilemma: Zhou Enlai in 1960–1965” written by President Yang, and the CD-ROM “Heroes of Peace—Zhou Enlai” produced by Mr. Michael North, co-founder of the Zhou Enlai Peace Institute, and supporting books.
