CHINESE EMBASSY CELEBRATES SPRING FESTIVAL 2015

Anvil's President Mr. Reginald Yu lead the delegation of the Anvil Business Club (Association of Young Filipino-Chinese Entrepreneurs ) during the annual Spring Festival Reception 2015, hosted by the Embassy of China, spearheaded by His Excellency, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Philippines, Zhao Jinhua (趙鑒華) at the Rizal Ballroom of the Makati Shangri-La, Manila. The affair was graced by a number of key Philippine government officials, as well as top Chinese Embassy bureaucrats and prominent business figures in the Chinese-Filipino community.

In his short remarks, The Honorable Ambassador Zhao thanked guests and friends who graced the event and hoped that the Year of the Sheep would bring in a calmer and stronger relations between the Philippines and China, while reiterating China's commitment to a China-Philippines partnership of common prosperity. "The Chinese Embassy in the Philippines will remain relentless in its efforts to push forward the bilateral exchange and cooperation between the two nations," Ambassador Zhao said, "and I'm asking everyone here to join us to make China-Philippine ties even stronger." His relevant message comes under the heels of the 40th Anniversary of bilateral relations between China and the Philippines, which shall be commemorated in June of this year.
A respectable number of delegates from the Club, including some of the organization's past presidents, graced the modest affair. The Confucius Institute of the Ateneo de Manila University enlivened the event by augmenting the ballroom with a Chinese arts and crafts workshop table, which included services on Chinese calligraphy and painting, paper cutting, knot tying, and Peking opera mask painting. Special VIPs and select envoys were also gifted with a special Chinese-Filipino-English language translator-and-lesson software.