Internal working platform of Yunnan Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries

On March 7, the Provincial Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries held the second executive director (enlarged) meeting of the first council. It was notified that Zhang Shijin, director of the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office and president of the Provincial Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, was elected as the new president of the first council and reviewed the new additions. The Provincial Disabled Persons' Federation, the Liaison Committee of the Provincial Related Work Committee, and Yunnan Vocational College of Transportation were appointed as directors of the unit, and the key tasks for 2024 were studied and deployed.Xu Sisi, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Council's Part-time Vice President, Hou Sheng, Vice President of the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, Yan Ming, Vice President of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, as well as some unit director representatives and specially invited directors Yang Haitao and Jin Feibao attended the meeting. The meeting was organized by the Provincial External Affairs Bureau Wang Yu, full-time vice-president of the China Friendship Association and full-time vice-president of the Council, presided over the event.

President Zhang Shijin said in his speech that he will do his best to connect and provide good services for all directors to expand non-governmental friendship with foreign countries. With the joint efforts of unit directors and individual directors, he will implement the work arrangements of the provincial party committee and the provincial government and promote the province's People-to-people diplomacy has reached a new level.He emphasized that to carry out non-governmental diplomacy in Yunnan Province in the new era, we must properly handle the relationship between responsibilities and benefits, words and deeds, supply and demand, doing and speaking, unification and division, and officials and people, maximize the mobilization of the power of diverse civil subjects, and unify and integrate The advantageous resources in various industries and fields promote the branding and standardization of non-governmental diplomatic activities such as the "Heart to Heart Yunnan Tour" project, creating a good external environment and providing strategic support for the province's economic and social development, the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the promotion of Chinese-style modernization. .

At the meeting, part-time vice presidents Xu Sisi, Hou Sheng and Yan Ming, specially invited directors Jin Feibao and Yunda Hospital, Provincial Red Cross Society, Yunnan Construction Investment Group, Provincial Alternative Planting Association, Provincial Disabled Persons' Federation, Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming Municipal Government Council representatives from the CPAFFC and other units shared their experiences in non-governmental foreign exchanges, exchanged views on the council’s key tasks in 2024 and offered suggestions based on work in their respective fields.

This meeting achieved the purpose of clarifying the direction, gathering strength and boosting morale, and provided a solid guarantee for the work of the Provincial Council of Foreign Affairs and Friendship with Foreign Countries in 2024.