The Cuban Embassy to China in Beijing Friday donated the book "Chinese and Cuban Independence" by well-known Cuban writer Gonzalo Quesada to the Chinese National Museum, to commemorate the Chinese workers in Cuba who made tribute and even died for the Cuban Independence War.

Alberto Rodriguez Arufe, Cuban ambassador to China, said at the donating ceremony that almost all Chinese workers in Cuba joined the Cuban people for independence from 1868 to 1898, which was written into "Chinese and Cuban Independence" by Quesada in 1892.

According to him, the Chinese Pang Bing'an, who then worked for China's state media Xinhua, brought the book back from Cuba in 1965, after completing his commission of setting up new branch office in Cuba for Xinhua. In 2003, during his meeting with the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Pang had the book signed with Castro's name and later returned it to the Cuban side.