5. In July 2005, MOC pushed forward a worldwide activity to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Zheng He’s Voyages to Western Seas. The global itinerant large-scale picture show, Messengers of Peace from China, was presented in Malaysia and some other 40 countries along the sea routes of Zheng He. The activity displayed China’s foreign policy of peace and the nation’s peace-loving image to wider range of people.

6. Since 2005, Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece and Britain successively worked with China to sponsor Culture Year or Culture Festival, making Chinese culture a fashion across the world.

7. From 2006 and 2007, China and Russia launched State-Year activities. In 2006, China held a Russia Year, and in 2007, Russia held a China Year. The events comprehensively promoted the strategic partnership of co-ordination between the two countries. Since sponsoring State Year in each other’s country was a major project covering diversified fields, the Chinese and Russian governments attached great importance to it and also set up organizing committees for the purpose.

8. In 2007, China and Japan sponsored the China-Japan Culture and Sport Exchange Year. Inaugurated in Tokyo, Japan, the activity comprised nearly 100 items to facilitate friendly ties between the two countries and understanding among their people.

9. Since its establishment in 1949, the People’s Republic of China has sent 37 Chinese art ensembles to make touring performances in Japan, under the invitation of Japan Soka Society. They have made 1,500 performances in 47 cities across Japan, attracting about 3 million Japanese audiences. Moreover, many Chinese non-governmental organizations have worked in support of government diplomacy to tap countries that have not yet established diplomatic relations with China, such as sending art ensembles to Panama and Dominica. China has also sponsored cultural aid projects to foreign countries. It has cultivated acrobatic talents for African countries. It has joined international efforts to aid Cambodia to renovate the Angkor Monuments. It has extended aid, and given gratis to Mongolia to maintain the Bogd Khan Palace Museum.

10. On June 17, 2009, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Medvedev jointly attended an entertainment party celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Russia. When the performance was over, Ling Jihua, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China and concurrently director of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and State Councilor Dai Bingguo, commissioned by President Hu Jintao, met the Chinese performers, speaking highly of their state-level performances and thanking them for winning honor for the country.