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CGCC Welcomes Ambassador Sun Guoxiang
On the evening of September 27th at the Evergreen Shanghai Restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, the China General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) hosted a banquet to welcome Ambassador Sun Guoxiang to his new position as the Consul-General of the People’s Republic of China in New York.
Those in attendance at the banquet included President of CGCC Mr. Yuan Ning, Vice Presidents Ms. He Sujuan and Mr. Wu Shiqiang, Representative of the Vice President Mr. Yang Guang, Executive Board Members Mr. Dong Hui and Mr. Hu Xinqiang, Representatives of the Executive Board Member Mr. Zhang Guangying, Mr. Fang Wei, and Mr. Hong Qing, Secretary General Mr. Richard Huang, and others. The Ambassador’s wife Wang Min, Commercial Counselor of China in New York Xu Bing, Consul Li Xiaomei, and Vice Consul Fu Jingjie also attended.
At the banquet, President Yuan and others spoke, warmly welcoming Ambassador Sun as the the new Consul-General and expressing CGCC and its member companies’ intention to continue to work hard under the guidance of Ambassador Sun and the Consulate General. Ambassador Sun also asserted that he will fully support the development of CGCC and Chinese enterprises in America.
Ambassador Sun arrived in New York on August 20th earlier this year to take over the position of Consul-General after former Consul General Peng Keyu returned to China. Previously, Ambassador Sun was the Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam.