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A Letter of Greetings From Professor Han
Qide Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee,
National Peoples Congress President of the
Western Returned Scholars Association the
Chinese Overseas-Educated Scholars Association
To Scholars Students Studying Abroad
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•  Dear Overseas Scholars and Students,
• Hello, everyone! Warmest greetings for the
  New Year and for the Chinese Spring Festival. On
  behalf of the WRSA /COSA and in my own name, I
  send best wishes to you and your family as you
  are studying or working abroad far away from our
  motherland and your own
• hometown.
• On these festive occasions, we think more
  than ever of our dear ones. Right now you will be
  thinking of China and your family and your dear
  relatives and close friends who are all looking
  forward to New Year reunions. And here, in our
  motherland, we are all thinking of you and
  concerned about you so far away.
• Chinas economy is growing by leaps and
  bounds society is stable and in good order, and
  the Chinese people are living and working

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• in peace and contentment. All social public
  affairs have improved in all-round way our great
  motherland is carrying out her historic mission
  and playing a more and more important role in
  international affairs with an increasing effect
  on the world.  All the nationalities of China are
  living in harmony with stronger coherence than
  ever owing to good state policies and popular
  support. Nowadays, as China grows more
  prosperous, it is necessary for the young
  generation both at home and abroad to create a
  well-off society in all round way so as to carry
  out our great goal of Chinas  renaissance, and
  this will provide an historic opportunity and a
  vast stage for all scholars and students studying
  abroad to develop their talents. It is more than
  130 years since Chinese students were sent abroad
  to study. Throughout this long period, all
  overseas-educated compatriots upheld the
  patriotic banner and went all out to serve the
  cause of the peoples liberation and national
  renaissance, in order to make

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• China prosperous and powerful. During the Chinese
  revolution, the period of Chinas construction
  and the period of reform and opening up to the
  outside world, our overseas-educated scholars and
  students left their glorious footprints in
  various fields-and technology, in education, and
  in national defense.  Among them, the outstanding
  scientists Li Siguang, Yan Jici, Hua Luogeng and
  Qian Xuesen, along with the elite of the older
  generation made great contributions to New China.
  If we look back in the past, we remember Sun
  Yat-sen, educated overseas in Japan, who
  organized and set up the United League of China
  (1905-1912), which led the revolution in 1911 to
  overthrow the feudal imperial system. And among
  the older-generation revolutionaries, were Zhou
  Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping and Zhu De, who
  went to Europe, in searching for the truth to
  save
• China.
• Since Chinas reform and opening up to the
  outside world, some 700,000 scholars and students
  have gone all over the world to study.

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• such an overseas study-oriented army is still
  expanding and flourishing.  Our Party and State
  Administration always pay great attention to all
  of you, who are considered an organic part of
  state personnel resources in accordance with the
  policy for all overseas-educated scholars
  Support going abroad for study, encourage return
  to the homeland and be free to travel back and
  forth.  Therefore, in order to continue such a
  policy, two documents have been issued in science
  entitled  Suggestions for Encouraging
  Higher-level Overseas-educated Members to Return
  to China , and Suggestions for Encouraging
  Overseas-educated Members to Serve China in
  different ways. Both of these documents aim at
  providing much better environmental and living
  conditions for those who wish to serve China when
  they have completed their studies abroad.
• Our Party and State Government earnestly hope
  that you will try your best to be a patriot, a
  hard-working pioneer, a scientific top climber,
  or and a human-civilization disseminator. We
  earnestly hope that most of you will carry
  forward the glorious tradition of dedicating
  yourselves to serve our motherland, and

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• combine your own ideals and ambitions with
  Chinas destiny to write your own glorious epic.
  We trust that you will render your service to
  repay our motherland's generosity and realize the
  value of your life during this historic period of
  China's renaissance and unity.
•   It is nearly 100 years since the WRSA was
  established. Recently, this nongovernmental
  organization was given a second name  The
  Chinese Overseas-Educated Scholars Association,
  as this shows it is more general and broader than
  the Western Returned Scholars Association. It
  should unite overseas-educated scholars and
  students all over the world, and we should make
  full use of such an organizations superiority
  in organizing and encouraging all
  overseas-educated members to play an important
  role in bringing glory to China in building the
  economy and in furthering its political and
  spiritual civilization.  The task of the WRSA or
  COSA is to prompt all overseas-educated members
  to do pioneering work and serve China.

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• In recent years, as we uphold the great
  banner of overseas-educated members dedicating
  our wide-ranging talents to the service of the
  motherland, our association has organized many
  activities to serve China. In order to turn the
  WRSA or COSA members patriotic enthusiasm into
  action to modernize China, the association held
  its 8th Symposium entitled China in the 21st
  Century, which aimed at urging the
  overseas-educated members to make suggestions and
  offer advice. In order to bring their
  intelligence and practical contributions into
  play and help them serve economic construction,
  our association has taken many measures and
  adopted suggestions to help our Study Abroad to
  Serve My Country plan to be carried out.
• Our association has sent more than 30
  delegations to the United States, Russia,
  Japan,South Korea, the UK, France, Germany,
  Canada, Australia and Switzerland and, at the
  same time, set up long-term relationships with
  over 100 associations or leagues of overseas
  study-oriented scholars and students so as to
  increase channels to contact many more

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• study-oriented personnel abroad. From now on, we
  will continue to improve our services and make
  effective efforts to strengthen our organization
  so as to protect your legal rights and interests,
  and turn our WRSA or COSA into a true home for
  all overseas-educated scholars and students.
• Our cause brings with it a great hope that it
  will stimulate limitless power. Let us,
  hand-in-hand, uphold the great banner of Study
  Abroad to Serve My Country, and strive for our
  glorious goal of Chinas renaissance. It is my
  conviction that a prosperous and stable China
  must stand up strongly in the East as her economy
  goes from strength to strength, her legal system
  is functioning well, her science and technology
  becoming more advanced, and her culture enriched
  with our joint efforts.
•  I earnestly wish that in the coming year all
  of you work well, study effectively, and keep
  fit, and 2005 brings happiness to you and your
  families.

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On the eve of New Year 2005