Vice president Xie Yuan met with first lady Carla Markell of the State of Delaware and her family on August 18th，2015.

Vice President Xie extended warm welcome to her first visit to China. He introduced that one of the CPAFFC’s major tasks is to push forward sub-national exchanges and cooperation between China and the U.S.. He highly commended Governor Markell for attaching great importance to the relationship with China and being committed to promoting the exchanges between Delaware and China.

Mrs. Markell held that the State of Delaware is small in size but strong in many aspects. It pays great attention to Chinese language learning and the State’s Chinese Immersion Program covers elementary schools to high schools. She talked about the fate of herself and her husband with China. Twenty five years ago, with Shien Biau Woo’s match-making, they got married. Woo, who served as Lt. Governor of Delaware in the 1980s, is the first Chinese-American lieutenant governor in the U.S. history. Her husband and their son Michael love playing table tennis and Michael is now learning Chinese and fascinated with Chinese cuisine.She hopes to gain more knowledge about China through this trip.