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Peng Liyuan visited a handicrafts exhibition in Cairo on Wednesday with Egypt's first lady, Entissar El-Sisi, and called for artists from both countries to deepen exchanges so traditional crafts can gain new vitality. The visit added a cultural dimension to Xi Jinping's state visit to Egypt.
No mountain or ocean can distance people who have shared aspirations, a saying more than 1,600 years old, has resurfaced in official commentary on China's diplomacy. From classical poetry to real world diplomacy, such cultural framing has become a familiar feature of official messaging abroad.
Retired American educator Ronald Sakolsky returned to Luoyang Foreign Language School last Saturday for an emotional reunion with former students. The visit is part of a China trip tied to his 26-year friendship with desert restoration figure Yin Yuzhen, during which he also visited the Longmen Grottoes and urged young people to take up environmental action.
Twenty seven years after donating to Yin Yuzhen's desert greening effort, American Ronald Sakolsky returned to Ordos, Inner Mongolia, to find a forest where he once remembered barren dunes. The two longtime friends planted a new tree together to mark the reunion.
British Ambassador to China Peter Wilson recently visited Liangjiahe village in Yan'an, Shaanxi, where Xi Jinping spent seven years as a young man. From those years to today's rural tourism boom, the village's transformation is presented officially as a window into the people first governing philosophy.
Around Qixi Festival, state media has again revisited photographs of President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, appearing together in public. From performer to global health envoy, Peng's public role has shifted over the years, and images of the couple on state visits have become a recurring feature of diplomatic coverage.
