Peng Liyuan visits the gift of Panda Toys for children with special mental retardation

Steel drum playing Chinese song "On the field of hope"

On June 1st, local time, President Xi Jinping, Mrs. Peng Liyuan, accompanied by the President of President Trinidad and Tobago, President Carmona, came to the National Performing Arts Center of Trinidad and Tobago to watch the special performance. The actors performed dances and Calypso songs with strong local characteristics, and also played Chinese songs "On the Field of Hope" and "Who Doesn't Say Hometown" with steel drums.

Peng Liyuan walked to the middle of the band and picked up the drumsticks to play with the actors. She told the actors that in the 1980s, the special steel drum band visited China and brought a unique artistic enjoyment to the Chinese audience. You are welcome to go to China to perform in the future. I hope that the friendship between China and the United States will be like a wonderful music.

On May 31, local time, when Xi Jinping and his wife arrived at the airport, Xi Jinping also welcomed the drums of the Teto national steel drum band with their drums.

Visiting children with intellectual disabilities to give panda toys

On the second day of arrival at Teto, the local time was on June 1st International Children's Day. On the same day, Peng Liyuan, accompanied by Mrs. Carmona, visited the Children's Association for the Disabled.

Peng Liyuan listened to the introduction of the person in charge of the association and went into the classroom to see the children. When visiting the child in a wheelchair, Peng Liyuan crouched down, smiled and reached out, and put it together with the little child's little hand, and the warmth passed. In the event hall, Peng Liyuan also watched the songs and dances performed by the children and presented toys such as plush pandas. She said that children need care, and special children need more care. China and the United States can conduct exchanges on charity.

Encourage many middle school students to be friendly career successors

Accompanied by the President of Trinidad and Tobago, Carmona, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan met with representatives of the special middle school students.

Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan shook hands with these middle school students and talked cordially, encouraging them to strengthen exchanges with Chinese youths and become successors to China-Singapore friendship.

Xi Jinping said that youth is the hope of the country and the future of friendship between China and the United States. We must create conditions for the young people of the two countries to exchange more and understand more, so that the seeds of friendship can be planted and blossomed in the hearts of young people.

Concerned about "Mrs. Diplomacy"

Mrs. Diplomacy highlights humanistic care

Chen Mingming, a member of the Public Diplomacy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former ambassador to Sweden and New Zealand, said that when the heads of state and the couple visited, the two had a general division of labor. For example, President Xi Jinping focused on political relations, foreign contacts, economic cooperation, etc., Mrs. Peng Liyuan pays more attention to women. Children's charity activities.

"This is also the practice. Foreign heads of state come to China. Their ladies will also look at some projects for women and children. Both of them have different emphasis on each other. They are also considered as 'Mrs. Diplomacy'." Chen Mingming pointed out that "Mrs. Diplomacy" is a very effective one. The form of public diplomacy is a supplement to the formal diplomacy of the chairman, and "the effect is very good."

Chen Mingming said that when the wife accompanied the head of state, she generally had relatively independent activities. She would consider the wife of the head of the head as a woman and pay more attention to projects related to the rights of women and children. Therefore, the two sides will naturally pay attention to these areas when discussing arrangements. For example, go to school, orphanage, hospital, etc.

Zong Zongze, deputy director of the China Institute of International Studies, also mentioned in an interview with this reporter that the image of "Mrs. Diplomacy" to China and the information to be transmitted are extremely valuable resources, so that a country’s diplomacy is not only very hard. The thing also conveys humanistic care and thus becomes more plump.

Expressing love on behalf of the Chinese people

Chen Mingming believes that Peng Liyuan visited the Teto Mentally Handicapped Children's Association to express concern and attention to the cause of local women and children. "In the process of contact, Peng Liyuan not only represents herself, but also represents Chinese women, represents the Chinese people, and expresses the children of Teto. Love, let them feel this concern.

When Xi Jinping visited Russia and Africa in March this year, Peng Liyuan went to the boarding school in Russia, the abandoned child adoption center in Congo to visit the children, and also chatted with orphans. Yesterday, she crouched down and sat in a wheelchair with a child's hand. Tan Youzhi, head of the Department of Diplomacy at the School of International Relations at the University of International Business and Economics, believes that Peng Liyuan, as the World Health Organization's “Breaking TB and AIDS Goodwill Ambassador”, is suitable for her and can serve as a bridge to deepen Sino-foreign friendship.

During the visit, Peng Liyuan also presented toys such as plush pandas to the children of Tedo. Chen Mingming feels that this gift is very Chinese. It is a Chinese symbol. It not only expresses the concern and love for local children, but also enables local children to feel the attraction and beauty of Chinese culture and enhance their feelings.