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/PRNewswire/ -- Editors Note: Chinese people believe that letters are as valuable as gold. For thousands of years, letters, across mountains and oceans, they...

George Hatem, an American doctor, came to China in 1933 and joined the CPC in 1937. He was the first foreigner to join the Party and to gain the PRC citizenship. We interviewed his son, Zhou Youma, to discover his father’s glorious path.

/PRNewswire/ -- A news report from Global Times: Chinese people believe that letters are as valuable as gold. For thousands of years, letters, across mountains...

Through his letters, Xi has also corresponded with international friends from all walks of life on numerous occasions, part of a series of excellent stories of Chinas international exchanges in the new era. The letters have also added vivid color to the diplomacy between China and other countries in the last decade.

Within mainland China today the ratio of Westerners to Chinese is probably no greater than it was in Marco Polo’s time seven hundred years ago. Sino-foreign contact is so minimal that it almost meets the old Taoist stay-at-home ideal, “to live hearing the dogs bark in the next village but never go there.” Peking and Washington indeed monitor each other’s barking, but they meet