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Future Ag Leaders Delegation to China Concludes Successful Learning Trip – Press Release

The Future Agriculture Leaders Delegation to China, organized by the U.S. Heartland China Association (USHCA) in coordination with the U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC), successfully completed a week-long learning trip to China from June 1-8. This unique learning trip brought

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From Heartland to Mainland: Reflections and Insights from the 2024 U.S.-China Agriculture Roundtable in China – Pt. 2

On September 12th, 2024, USHCA hosted the second and final part of this special webinar series, where delegates who traveled to China to attend the 2024 U.S.-China Ag Roundtable shared their reflections and insights from their recent travels.

As delegates of two American delegations organized by USHCA – the Ag & Food Business Delegation and the Ag Education Delegation – they had a front-row-seat opportunity to observe and explore the impact of U.S.-China collaboration around agriculture as they traveled through Shanghai, Hefei, Jinan, Binzhou, Weifang, Beijing, and Xi’an.

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From Heartland to Mainland: Reflections and Insights from the 2024 U.S.-China Agriculture Roundtable in China – Pt. 1

On August 29th, 2024, USHCA hosted a special webinar, where delegates who traveled to China to attend the 2024 U.S.-China Ag Roundtable shared their reflections and insights from their recent travels.   As delegates of two American delegations organized by

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6th Annual U.S.-China Sister Cities Summit

Min Fan, USHCA’s Executive Director, was one of many representatives from the Heartland states that traveled to Tacoma, Washington, to participate in the 6th U.S. – China Sister Cities Summit on July 18 – 19th, 2024.

The community of Tacoma rolled out the red carpet for their domestic and international visitors; guests were greeted with a band of bagpipers, a formal cannon salute, traditional Mexican Salsa and Chinese Lion dances, as well as blessings by Puyallup Tribal leaders.

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St. Louis-Nanjing Sister Cities Celebration

On April 21st, 2024, USHCA representatives attended the Celebration for the 45th Anniversary of St. Louis-Nanjing Sister City Relationship to welcome a visiting delegation from Nanjing. This event was jointly organized by the Nanjing Foreign Affairs Office and St. Louis-Nanjing Sister City Committee, and hosted by the World Trade Center-St. Louis at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

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2024 Prospects for U.S. Ties with China: “Are We Partners or are We Adversaries?”

Three members of the USHCA’s leadership had the honor to be invited to a small “old friends” reception to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco on November 18, 2023, the same day that President Biden and President Xi met on the sidelines of the APEC meetings. Following that small gathering, the USHCA representatives then joined close to 200 guests from around the U.S. to attend an exclusive dinner at which President Xi delivered a significant speech in which he shared China’s openness to cooperation and posed a crucial question: “Are we partners or are we adversaries?”

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USHCA Participates in Washington University’s Cabot Zhang Lecture

On Tuesday, January 30th, USHCA leadership was featured in a panel on the potential for collaboration between the U.S. and China in the realm of healthcare innovation. This dialogue was part of the Cabot Corporation–Xinsheng Zhang Lectureship series, organized by Washington University and facilitated by the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.

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