Yunnan Provincial People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries

On December 2nd, the launch and plaque presentation ceremony of the "Flying Tigers Team Friendship School" was held in Kunming. The American China Aviation Heritage Foundation awarded the "Flying Tigers Team Friendship School" plaque to Kunming Foreign Language School and Xiangyun County No.2 Middle School. In April 2024, under the active promotion of the Yunnan Provincial Association for Foreign Friendship, Kunming Foreign Language School and Xiangyun County No.2 Middle School signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Leadership School in Dallas, Texas, USA, and the American China Aviation Heritage Foundation online, jointly joining the "Flying Tigers Team Friendship School and Youth Leader Program" and carrying out a series of offline activities.

Wang Yu, Vice President of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the China Association for Promoting Friendship with Foreign Countries, said that the spirit of the Flying Tigers is a common spiritual wealth of the people of China and the United States. The "Flying Tigers Teammate Friendship School and Youth Leader Program" is a vivid practice of the future of Sino-US relations "lying in the youth". The establishment of the Flying Tigers Teammate Friendship School is a remembrance of the glorious history of the Chinese and American people fighting side by side, and a continuation and promotion of the spirit of the Flying Tigers. The Yunnan Provincial Committee of the China Association for Promoting Friendship with Foreign Countries will recommend more suitable Yunnan schools to join and develop it into an important base for the two countries to spread friendship, promote exchanges and cultivate talents, so that the spirit of the Flying Tigers can be passed down from generation to generation between the two peoples and continue to write a new chapter in Sino-US friendship.

Chairman Geoffrey Green of the China Airlines Heritage Foundation reviewed the history of the Flying Tigers with students on-site, emphasizing that the Flying Tigers are a common heritage of the people of both China and the United States, and are very important to the world today. This history has built a bridge of friendship between the people of China and the United States. It is hoped that through this project, young people from China and the United States can learn from each other and tell the story of the Flying Tigers well, carrying forward the spirit of the Flying Tigers.

Four veteran members of the Hundred-Flights-Brave-Unit, Harry Moye, Mel Maclellan, Jack Goodrich, and Robert Moore, have sent video messages of blessing, looking back on the deep friendship established between the "Flying Tigers" and the Chinese people in their joint combat and cooperation, and urging the contemporary youth to become storytellers of the story of the Flying Tigers and inheritors of the spirit of the Flying Tigers.