On 26 Feburary, 2016, the Press Conference of the 2016 Year of China-CEEC People-to-people and Cultural Exchanges was held in Diaoyutai State Guesthouse by the Secretariat for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries. Present at the Conference were Assistant Foreign Minister and Secretary General of the Secretariat Liu Haixing, Assistant Secretary of State for the Latvian Foreign Ministry, the Ambassadors and representatives from the 16 Embassies of Central and Eastern European Countries, Chinese co-hosts of the Year of People-to-people and Cultural Exchanges, and media from home and abroad. Lv Hongwei, deputy director general of European and Asian Department of CPAFFC, attended the conference on behalf of CPAFFC as member of the Secretariat.