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The 23rd World Hakka Conference opened last night in Heyuan LI Ruqiu and other city leaders attended the opening ceremony

The 23rd World Hakka Conference opened last night in Heyuan LI Ruqiu and other city leaders attended the opening ceremony

Write: Kozma [2011-05-20]
Affection with the ancient town, brotherhood of Hakkas. Last night, the 23rd world Hakka gathering association was opened in Heyuan Culture Square, nearly 6,000 Hakka representatives and guests from more than 20 countries and regions gathered together to renew kinship and friendship. Deputy party secretary of municipal party committee and Mayor Li Ruqiu, party secretary of Municipal NPC Standing Committee and executive deputy director Yang Youyi, Municipal Standing Committee member and director of Publicity Department Huang Yanxing, , deputy director of Municipal NPC Standing Committee Yang Meilin, and vice chairman of Municipal People's Political Consultative Ye Qing, as well as veteran comrades Zhu Youzhi and Ye Yuejian, and Hong Kong Huizhou Federation of Associations chairman Yang Zhao and executive vice chairman Zhu Jianqing, attended the opening ceremony.
According to reports, the World Hakka Conference is one of the wide-relation and high-impact Chinese event in the world, and has become a bridge of friendship for world's Hakkas, known as the Hakkas' "Olympics"; October 16, 2008, Heyuan City won the bid to host the 23rd World Hakka Conference, setting a record of one-off success in "bidding for World Hakka Conference"; and this is the second time for World Hakka Conference to be held in Guangdong 16 years after the Twelfth World Hakka Conference was successfully held in Meizhou City in 1994.