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CGTN: China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan Writes Letter to German Students

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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, wrote a letter on Tuesday to students and teachers at Burggymnasium, a public secondary school in Essen, Germany, encouraging them to make a new contribution to strengthening the friendship between peoples of China and Germany.

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  • Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, wrote a letter on Tuesday to students and teachers at Burggymnasium, a public secondary school in Essen, Germany, encouraging them to make a new contribution to strengthening the friendship between peoples of China and Germany.
  • It set up the Chinese course in 1994 and organized the students and teachers to visit China for exchange and study multiple times in recent years.
  • In March 2014, when Peng accompanied Xi on a state visit to Germany, she visited the school and sat in on a Chinese class.
  • In October 2016, Peng met the school's students and teachers in Beijing, who were on their study trip to China.