Prince Coco Chen Entian met with Sommad Pholsena, Vice President of the National Assembly of the Lao PDR

 

(Sommad Pholsena, Vice President of the National Assembly of the Lao PDR)

 

Chairman Sommad Pholsena is the third son of Guinness Pholsena, an outstanding politician and diplomat, who is a predecessor of the Lao revolution. In the 1960s, he and his siblings studied in Beijing, China, and formed a friendship with the current Chinese leaders. A former Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Laos, Sommad has visited China many times and actively promoted cooperation between the two countries in the areas of ecology, environment, water conservancy and meteorology. Chen Entian, Prince Coco, used to serve as the director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies, vice president and secretary general of the JunFu Calligraphy and Painting Institute, and director of the JunFu Science and Technology Research Institute. More than a decade ago, Chinese official media revealed that his grandfather, Chen Guangmei, and his grand-aunt, Chen Zimei, were the children of Chinese Communist Party founder Chen Duxiu and Gao Junman. As Chen Entian is the Chief Goodwill Ambassador of the World Peace Ribbon Organization, and the initiator and promoter of the International Chinese Language Day (April 20), the International Tea Day (May 21), and the Belt and Road International Day (December 16), the international community honors him as Prince Coco.

 

Chairman Sommad Pholsena welcomed Prince Coco Chen Entian, and made special mention of the foundational contribution of the revolutionary forefather Chen Duxiu to the founding of the CPC, and the two martyrs Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian, sons of Chen Duxiu, who sacrificed their young lives for the great cause of the CPC and set an example of the revolution of going forward to succeed one another. Prince Coco Chan Entian expressed his gratitude to Chairman Sommad Pholsena for taking time out of his busy schedule to meet with him, emphasizing that he has long been concerned about Chairman Sommad Pholsena's family, and that many years ago when Chinese leaders visited Laos, they specially met with Chairman Sommad Pholsena's family, and Chairman Sommad Pholsena made a speech on behalf of the family, which left a deep impression on us.

 

Prince Coco Chen Entian also said: more than a decade ago, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General Ji Chaozhu and I, with the support of the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and others, co-founded the World Peace Ribbon Organization (World Peace and United Front) and designated 16 December as the Belt and Road International Day, and put forward the Five-in-One Proposal for World Peace, which was widely supported by international civil society. Last year, we set off from the aircraft carrier town of Nantianmen in Tianfu New Area, Sichuan Province, and retraced the Southern Silk Road, passing through Yunnan along the Ancient Tea and Horse Trail, then arriving at Prince Coco's residence in Myanmar through the China-Myanmar-Indian Ocean Corridor, using Myanmar as a transit hub, along the north-west route through 10 countries to Kazakhstan, where the “Belt” Initiative was proposed, and along the south-east route through 10 countries to Indonesia, where the “Road” Initiative was proposed. We have identified 22 countries along this route as the Southern Silk Road International Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone.

 

(Chen Entian, Goodwill Ambassador of the World Peace Ribbon Organization)

 

Prince Coco Chen Entian invited Chairman Sommad Pholsena, hoping that Chairman Sommad Pholsena and the Lao side will actively support the construction of the International Economic and Trade Cooperation Mechanism of the Southern Silk Road, and work together to build the SCO-Southern Silk Road International Cooperation Committee of the World Peace Ribbon Organization. Chairman Sommad Pholsena expressed his gratitude to Prince Coco Chen Entian for his invitation and hoped that the Southern Cooperation Plan of the Southern Silk Road International Cooperation Committee of the World Peace Ribbon Organization would be a complete success. Mr. Chen Bin, Chairman of Laos Latsavong Development Co. Ltd. and Myanmar Belt and Road Development Co. Ltd. and other relevant persons in charge accompanied the meeting.