Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will be in Iowa on Wednesday, February 15th, a visit one Professor at Morningside is calling very cultural.
Lin Benchun is teaching two classes at Morningside this semester.
He's from the city of Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province in China, places where Xi was mayor and governor before becoming China's Vice President.
Lin says Xi seems like a nice guy who keeps a low profile, and his visit to Iowa?Wednesday will be a meeting between old friends.
"We really cherish the old friendships," says Benchun.?"He came here in 1985 and he would like to come again to see the old friends, it's so natural in our culture."
So, who are those old friends Xi will be meeting in Iowa?
He'll meet with Governor Branstad, who was also Governor back in 1985, and the same farm family he stayed with during that trip.
Source: http://www.kmeg14.com/story/16936398/chinese-vp-trip-to-iowa-is-cultural-morningside-professor-says
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