US foundation encouraged to help boost ties

Xi calls on organization to continue to serve as bridge promoting friendship

In the 1930s, Edgar Snow and Helen Foster Snow, who were journalists and authors from the United States, made the Communist Party of China known to the world through their books and articles on the Party and the Chinese revolution. They are seen as a bridge connecting China and the US.

After Adam Foster, president of the Helen Foster Snow Foundation, wrote recently to President Xi Jinping, Xi replied and encouraged him and the foundation to continue to serve as a bridge promoting friendship between the two nations.

In the letter sent on Jan 27 to Foster, who is Helen Foster Snow's grandnephew, Xi said the Chinese people bear in mind the contributions made by international friends, including the Snows, to China's revolution and construction, as well as their sincere friendship with the CPC and the Chinese people.