On the picture Ambassador Chen Xu.
By Roy Lie A Tjam.
H.E. Mr. Chen Xu, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Netherlands, on Thursday July 16 hosted a reception to say farewell to one Political Counselor and welcome his successor.
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Mr. Liu Chun will soon be leaving the Netherlands after serving as the political advisor to Ambassador Chen Xu for the past two years. He is returning to the MFA in China to take up a new post. In his valediction speech, Liu Chun expressed his love of and admiration for the Netherlands and noted that the famous Dutch tulip originates from China, ending up in the Netherlands via Turkey.
His successor Mr. Chen Ribiao was welcomed at the same reception. Chen Ribiao is no stranger to the Netherlands. He studied here some twenty years ago, and is fluent in the Dutch language. His entire speech was in Dutch.
Along with the departing and arriving Political Counselors, Ambassador Chen Xu applauded the strong relationship between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the People’s Republic of China. Ambassador Chen Xu also fondly referred to the historical visit of his President Mr. Xi Jinping to the Netherlands in order to attend the NIS summit in 2014.
