"China has made substantial contributions to realizing the ideals of the United Nations," former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a recent interview with Xinhua. "The restoration of the lawful seat of the People's Republic of China was a landmark event in the history of the UN," Ban said when recalling China's role in the United Nations during the last 50 years. "The United Nations became a universal organization in terms of its size and contents by the restoration of the seat by China," he added. During his ten-year tenure as secretary-general, Ban has witnessed the occurr
Fifty years ago today, the 26th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution 2758 with an overwhelming majority and decided to restore the lawful seat of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the world body. In the conference hall at the UN Headquarters located in New York City, thunderous applause and cheers echoed from all sides of the hall. Former Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United States Salim Ahmed Salim, as the representative of the campaign for this cause, congratulated China with cheers and applause on the spot, which left an unforgettable
ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The restoration of China's lawful seat in the United Nations in 1971 was a milestone moment that injected momentum in propelling global development, said Teruneh Zenna, Ethiopia's former ambassador to the United Nations. China, as a responsible major country, "has played an active role in the UN peacekeeping operations and influenced the organization to adhere to its guiding principles," Zenna told Xinhua recently. Sharing his memory about China's restoration of its lawful seat in the United Nations, Zenna said there was unparalleled jubilation during that hist
BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- "Both climate change and COVID-19 have shown us that we, as a species, as humanity, we can survive only through multilateralism." This emphatic and shrewd observation was made by Abdulla Shahid, president of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), in an exclusive interview with Xinhua in the lead-up to the 50th anniversary of the restoration of China's lawful seat in the United Nations, which falls on Monday. Indeed, those pressing planetary challenges, along with ongoing profound global changes unseen in a century, have led humanity to yet another cruc
아시아통신 송신화 기자 | Source: Xinhua| 2021-10-13 16:28:25|Editor: huaxia (중국 창사=신화통신) 저우몐 천쓰한/송신화 기자 = 후난(湖南)성 이양(益陽)시 허산(赫山)구의 한 찻잎 시장에 '융러(永樂)흑차박물관'이라는 간판이 눈에 띈다. 이양시에서 규모가 가장 큰 사립 흑차박물관의 주인은 놀랍게도 중국인이 아닌 한국 대구 출신 예호준씨다. 예호준(1962년생)씨는 어렸을 때부터 중국 문화에 관심이 많았다. 학업과 일 때문에 베이징에서 수년간 지내면서 2006년 '흑차의 본고장'이라고 불리는 이양시에 조사를 나갔던 그는 2009년 '융러흑차박물관'을 세우기에 이르렀다. 지난 10여 년 동안 그는 '차마고도(茶馬古道)'를 따라 흑차의 주요 생산지와 판매지를 찾아다니며 박물관에 전시할 수많은 흑차를 수집했다. 흑차는 중국의 6대 전통차(茶) 중 하나로 유구한 역사를 자랑한다. 예씨가 수집한 흑차 중엔 1949년 신중국 건국 이후 거의 매년 생산되고 있는 흑차 제품뿐 아니라 흑차에 일가견 있는 그가 직접 디자인한 굿즈도 있다. 그의 박물관은 매일 무료로 대중에 개방하고 있다. 시간 날 때마다 직접 관람객에게 소장품에 대한