The overseas Chinese community in France held a reception to celebrate the 77th anniversary of the founding of New China and the Mid-Autumn Festival in Paris

China News Service, Paris, September 28. The overseas Chinese community in France held a Mid-Autumn Festival reception to celebrate the 77th anniversary of the founding of New China in Paris on the evening of September 25, local time. Chinese Ambassador to France Deng Li and his wife Zhang Hua attended the reception.

On the evening of September 25, local time, the overseas Chinese community in France held a Mid-Autumn Festival reception to celebrate the 77th anniversary of the founding of New China in Paris. Photo by reporter Li Yang

Ambassador Deng Li extended his National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival blessings to the overseas Chinese in France at the reception. He said that the vast number of overseas Chinese are friendly envoys who tell the story of China well and are also an important link connecting China and the world. He hopes that everyone will be based in France, love their homeland, and look at the world. They will always be good tellers of Chinese stories, participants in harmonious overseas Chinese communities, and promoters of Sino-French friendship, and make new and greater contributions to promoting exchanges and cooperation between China and France in various fields.

Zheng Jinbiao, chairman of the French Overseas Chinese Association, delivered a speech on behalf of the overseas Chinese community in France. He said that over the past seventy-seven years, despite the wind and rain, the motherland's leap-forward development has made all overseas Chinese people feel proud and glorious. He said that the feelings of family and country are the foundation of the overseas Chinese community, and it is the responsibility of the overseas Chinese community to be successful. In the new era, overseas Chinese in France will deepen people-to-people diplomacy between China and France and build a bridge of friendship for economic and trade exchanges, cultural integration, and people-to-people bonds. He said that all overseas Chinese in France will keep in mind their original aspiration and mission, bravely shoulder the responsibilities of the times, cultivate deep feelings for home and country, work together to help each other, work together, continue to use overseas Chinese as a bridge and empower them, and continue to promote the stable and long-term friendly cooperation between China and France and China and Europe.

The cultural performance at the reception was directed by Hou Yuxia, President of the Sino-French Art Exchange Association, and collaborated with artists Wu Lin and Lu Yaxiang living in France, as well as literary and artistic talents from the overseas Chinese community and descendants of Chinese descent. It used singing and dancing, instrumental music, cross talk, chorus and other popular art forms to express the innocent feelings of overseas Chinese who care about the motherland and share the same origin of home and country.

During the reception, the video "Moon Full in China, Overseas Chinese Hearts Are Together" produced by the European Times Culture and Media Group was also played, which selected 77 blessings from 77 overseas Chinese to celebrate the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and show the feelings of the overseas Chinese in France about their home and country. (over)