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Visiting PFP Chairman returns to mainland Alma Mater
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-05-09 20:28 Visiting chairman James Cy
Soong of the People First Party (PFP) in Taiwan and Mrs. Soong were warmly
welcomed Monday afternoon at Soong's alma mater in Xiangtan of central-south
China's Hunan Province.
Along the Chengzheng Street in front of the Shuguang Primary School, nearly
10,000 local residents lined up to greet Soong, who left the town 56 years ago.
On the playground, banners reading " Welcome back, Chairman Soong" and "Your
alma mater bless you" and "Please come back to alma mater often" fluttered in
the wind.
Recalling his school life there as a second-grader in 1949, Soong said he had
received an sound education at the school.
"It was from here that I understood I am not only a Hunanese but also a real
Chinese," he said.
After a brief tour to the former private school founded in 1902, Soong
excitedly took out a school report card he had long cherished. Four of his
classmates were present at the welcoming ceremony.
James CY Soong made private donations to the school and left an inscription
exalting the school's salutary influence in education and children's future. He
received an album from the school in return.
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