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Chinese President Meets Lions Club Int'l Delegation

Chinese President Jiang Zemin said Wednesday that China hopes to see constant development of the good cooperative relations between China and the Lions Club International (LCI), a well-known welfare organization based in the United States.


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Chinese President Meets Lions Club Int'l Delegation
Chinese President Jiang Zemin said Wednesday that China hopes to see constant development of the good cooperative relations between China and the Lions Club International (LCI), a well-known welfare organization based in the United States.

Jiang said this during a meeting with Kay Fukushima, president of the LCI, who is on a visit to China with a delegation from the club.

Jiang said China appreciates the appropriate way the club dealt with the name of the LCI in China's Taiwan Province, and the club's inclusion of the Guangdong and Shenzhen clubs as members of the LCI.

He congratulated the LCI on the successful implementation of the first phase of the "Sightfirst China Action" launched by the club in 1997, and the recent launch of the second phase of the project. The project has benefited many disabled persons in China, he said.

During the first phase of the "Sightfirst China Action" project, the LCI donated a total of 15 million yuan (about 1.81 million US dollars) for the removal of cataracts from 1.75 million Chinese people over five years, and for the training of thousands of doctors in China's rural areas.

Fukushima said it is commonly understood the leadership of the LCI intends to expand wide-ranging cooperation with China. He said the LCI will continue to work with China to ensure the second phase of the "Sightfirst China Action" is a success.

The delegation came to China specifically for the launch of the second phase of the project.


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