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By:Wu Qiong, Wang Jiaye  |  
From:english.eastday.com  |  2021-04-12 10:47
A friendly match between four mixed doubles made up of ping-pong lovers from both China and the United States was held in Shanghai on April 10.
Taking place in the International Table Tennis Federation Museum and China Table Tennis Museum in Shanghai, it was part of a commemorative event to mark the 50th anniversary of ping pong diplomacy, a milestone in the history of China-US relations that broke the ice between the two countries.
Former players Zhang Xielin, Zheng Minzhi, Yao Zhenxu, Wu Xinmin, Chen Lifang, Ding Saizhen, Xu Ruowei, and Xu Jianqin, and coach Xu Yingsheng, as witnesses to the historical China-US Ping Pong Diplomacy in 1971, were invited to the opening ceremony. Though not physically present, Connie Sweeris, a member of the US women’s table tennis team that traveled to China in that historic year, sent a table tennis bat with her signature from Colorado, to celebr ....

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