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On December 2, the launch and awarding ceremony of the "Flying Tigers Friendship School" was held in Kunming. The US-China Aviation Heritage Foundation awarded "Flying Tigers Friendship School" plaques to Kunming Foreign Language School and Xiangyun County No. 2 Middle School. In April 2024, with the active promotion of the Yunnan Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Kunming Foreign Language School, Xiangyun County No. 2 Middle School, the International Leadership School of Dallas, Texas, and the US-China Aviation Heritage Foundation signed an online memorandum to jointly join the "Flying Tiger" Team Friendship School and Youth Leadership Program" and launched a series of offline activities.

Wang Yu, full-time vice president of the Provincial Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, said that the Flying Tiger spirit is the common spiritual wealth of the people of China and the United States. The "Flying Tigers Friendship School and Youth Leaders Program" is a vivid practice of "the future lies in the youth" of Sino-US relations. The establishment of the Tigers Friendship School is a reminder of the glorious history of the Chinese and American people fighting side by side, and an inheritance and promotion of the spirit of the Flying Tigers. The Provincial Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries will recommend more suitable Yunnan schools to join and develop it into an important base for China and the United States to spread friendship, promote exchanges, and cultivate talents, so that the Flying Tiger spirit can be passed down from generation to generation between the people of the two countries and continue to be written. A new chapter in Sino-US friendship.

Jeffrey Green, chairman of the U.S.-China Aviation Heritage Foundation, reviewed the history of the Flying Tigers with the students on the spot, saying that the Flying Tigers are the common heritage of the people of China and the United States and are very important to today's world. This period of history is important to both the United States and China. Build a bridge of friendship between people. It is hoped that through this project, young people from China and the United States can learn from each other, tell the story of the Flying Tigers well, and inherit the spirit of the Flying Tigers.

Four 100-year-old Flying Tigers veterans, Harry Moyer, Mel McMullen, Jack Goodrich, and Robert Moore, sent a blessing video to review the profound legacy established by the "Flying Tigers" fighting side by side and working together with the Chinese people. Friendship, a message for contemporary teenagers to become the tellers of the Flying Tigers story and the inheritors of the Flying Tigers spirit.