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Xiamen PCG Celebrates Dr. Jose Rizal’s 154th Birth Anniversary In Jinjiang City’s Rizal Park

Xiamen PCG Celebrates Dr. Jose Rizal’s 154th Birth Anniversary

In Jinjiang City’s Rizal Park

 

  

 

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              • Left : CG Flores (in brown barong) with Xiamen PCG officials and FAX representatives
              • Top: Panoramic view of Rizal Monument in Jinjiang City, Fujian Province

The Philippine Consulate General in Xiamen celebrated Dr. Jose Rizal’s 154th Anniversary with a wreath laying ceremony at the Rizal Park in Jinjiang City, Fujian on 26 June 2015.

 

 

Consul General Julius Caesar Flores was joined by other PCG officers and representatives of Filipinos in Xiamen (FAX). The Chinese government were led by Jinjiang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Minister of United Front Department Wang Jin Zhan, CPC Jinjiang Municipal Committee Zeng Hui Ping, Jinjiang Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (FOCAO) Director General Chen Jian Jun and Deputy Director Dai Shao Yang.

 

 

On behalf of the Philippine Government, ConGen Flores expressed deep appreciation to the City of Jinjiang and its people for its continued hosting and maintenance of the Rizal Park, which has become a lasting symbol of the friendship and understanding between the Philippines and China.

 

 

Furthermore, ConGen Flores requested the local officials that the donated publications be reserved for the Rizal Showroom/Museum envisioned by the City of Jinjiang for its school children and the general public. And that the Consulate General is committed to continue to support this worthwhile endeavor including the donation of a Rizal bust.

 

 

The monument dedicated to Dr. Rizal was completed in January 2003 and stands inside a five-hectare People’s Cultural Plaza in Jinjiang City’s Qiongque Village. The village is believed to be the ancestral home of Rizal’s paternal great, great grandfather, Ke Yinan, who was later baptized with the Christian name, Domingo Lamco, when he immigrated into the Philippines about 300 years ago. END

 

 

 

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        • Top Left: CG Flores during the wreath laying ceremony at Rizal Monument in Jinjiang City
        • Top Right: CG Flores (in brown barong) poses with Jinjiang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Minister of United Front Department Mr. Wang Jin Zhang during the book donation