Xi invited 100 Lincoln students to visit China next year, according to the Seattle Times. “You will know China better, and hopefully you will fall in love with China,” he said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping receives a custom No 1 Lincoln Abes jersey that bears his name as he visits football players at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington, September 23, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]
Chinese President Xi Jinping visits with football players at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington, September 23, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]
He had visited the Lincoln High School in Tacoma in 1993 when he was the Party Chief of Fuzhou, the capital of East China’s Fujian province, and helped establish a sister-city relationship between Fuzhou and Tacoma.