FSM President Manny Mori, Ambassador Sato Shoji of Japan, other officials and Chinese residing in Pohnpei, as well as more than 100 guests attended the reception.
According to Zhang, “Sixty-one years in the Chinese history of 5,000 years is certainly very short and transitory.
But this period of 61 years is a period of glory and success. In 61 years, China has gone through all the twists and turns and made miraculous progress step by step. Sixty-one years ago, on Oct. 1, 1949, the Chinese people stood up and bid farewell to the old China, and successfully transferred a semi-colonized and semi-feudal country into a new one with sole sovereignty and independence. Thirty-two years ago, in 1978, China adopted the ‘reform and opening up policy’ and successfully put China in a fast-lane of economic development and kept China’s economy growing at a high speed thereafter. Now China has become a more united and better-off developing country whose overall economic volume has become the third in the world.”
