On May 25th,2015, with the witness of the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and the Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, Xie Yuan, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and Fernando Matta,  Chairman of Chile-China Culture Institution (CCCI) signed the Memorandum of Cooperation in Santiago, the capital of Chile.

According to the memo, the both sides will enhance the two peoples’ understanding and friendship by developing the exchanges in culture. The both sides will promote the exchange and visits of artists, cultural organizations, and well-known personages based on equality and mutual benefit; establish modern dialogue mode against the background of daily deepening relationship of the two countries, so as to overcome the distance and strengthen the relations of the two countries.

CCCI was established in October, 1952. It is the earliest friendly-to-China organization in South America. Under the leadership of the founders such as the former Chilean President Salvador Allende, well-known poet and the winner of Nobel Prize for literature Pablo Neruda, the famous painter José Venturelli, it has long made important contribution to Chile-China friendship and culture exchange in the way of promoting official diplomacy by non-official diplomacy.