Learning·Story丨Witnessing the love affair with China for more than 40 years, Xi Jinping awarded him the "001" Medal, the love affair with Xi Jinping

Release time:May 06, 2024 17:10 PM

On the afternoon of May 5, local time, President Xi Jinping arrived in Paris by special plane and paid a state visit to France at the invitation of President Macron of the French Republic. This visit is President Xi Jinping’s third state visit to France since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

France was the first major Western country to establish diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level with the People's Republic of China. Sino-French relations have long been at the forefront of Sino-Western relations.

In the office of Alain Merieux, chairman of the French Mérieux Foundation, a gold medal shines brightly - this is the China Reform Friendship Medal. On December 18, 2018, at a conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening up, President Xi Jinping awarded the China Reform Friendship Medal to Alain Merieux and other 10 international friends to express his gratitude to the international community for its support and help in China’s reform and opening up cause. Alain Mérieux's certificate number is exactly "001".

On December 20, 2018, Alain Merieux displayed the China Reform Friendship Medal and certificate at his office in Lyon, France. Photo by reporter Chen Yichen

On April 8 this year, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, President Xi Jinping met with Mr. and Mrs. Merieux, chairman of the French Mérieux Foundation, in Beijing. President Xi Jinping expressed his appreciation for the Merieux couple and the Merieux Foundation for their long-term concern and support for the development of Sino-French relations and China's health undertakings, and welcomed the Merieux Foundation to continue to deepen cooperation with China.

On April 8, 2024, President Xi Jinping met with Merieux and his wife, chairman of the French Mérieux Foundation, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photo by reporter Huang Jingwen

"My contacts and friendship with China began 46 years ago. Over the years, I have always paid attention to and admired China's development and progress." Alain Mérieux, who is nearly 90 years old, is a well-deserved old friend of the Chinese people.

In 1978, Alain Mérieux set foot on Chinese soil for the first time, kicking off the friendly cooperation between Mérieux Company, Mérieux Foundation and China. From the first tuberculosis prevention and control vaccine to the Beijing Joint Laboratory for the Identification of Emerging Respiratory Pathogens, and then to Asia’s first biosafety level 4 laboratory, Alain Mérieux has participated in and witnessed almost everything in China’s medical and health field. every critical stage of development.

Looking back on the path China has taken through reform and opening up, Alain Mérieux was deeply moved: "China's changes have not only benefited hundreds of millions of Chinese people, but also benefited the world."

There are close friends in the sea, and there are neighbors in the world. In March 2014, during President Xi Jinping’s visit to France, he visited the Mérieux Biological Research Center. Alain Mérieux led his family members and center staff to line up to warmly welcome him. Recalling the scene at that time, Merieux was very excited: "All the scientific researchers rushed to shake hands with President Xi." President Xi Jinping said that I am very happy that the Merieux Group has achieved so many results in cooperation with China. I appreciate your contribution to promoting friendly cooperation between China and France.

On October 23, 2012, then Vice President Xi Jinping met with Alain Merieux at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photo by reporter Li Tao

The path to benefit always goes with the times. Alain Merieux is not only a witness to China's reform and development, but also a participant and contributor. Together with the Chinese people, he writes the story of friendly exchanges between China and France.

As President Xi said when meeting with the Merieux couple, over the past 60 years, generations of people have inherited and developed China-France relations, and the friendship between the two countries has become stronger over time.

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