Vice President Xie Yuan met with a delegation from American Chinese Restaurant Institute in Beijing on April 19.

Vice President Xie briefed the guests on the major tasks the CPAFFC has been performing in promoting people-to-peoples exchanges, especially in the cultural sector, between China and the US. He said, food culture is the major component of the cultural identities of every nation in the world. The CPAFFC would like to work with the American Chinese Restaurant Institute to, by means of food culture exchanges, increase mutual understanding and friendship between the people of the two countries.

Hu Xiaojun, Chairman of American Chinese Restaurant Institute, said he would like to take the trip to China as an opportunity to build connections and make friends through food culture. By increasing exchanges in food culture, he hoped to strengthen people-to-people friendship and continue the prosperity of Chinese food abroad.