Xin Nian Kuai Le! Mona and I would like to extend our best wishes to everyone here in China and our friends and family back home in America as we celebrate the Chinese New Year. This is a special time of a year, many people returning to their Laojia, reuniting with family and enjoying a holiday meal with loved ones and friends.
People born in the Year of the Horse are known for strength and vigor. This past year has been an important one for new relationships to form between the United States and China. We are optimistic that in 2014 we will continue to see further strengthening of these relationships.
Although Mona and I will soon be departing for our hometown of Seattle, we will continue to actively promote people-to-people relationship between our two great countries. We've all worked so well together in these past two and half years. US officials, Chinese officials, members of the business community in both our countries, to say nothing of the students, educators, journalists, artists and athletes bringing our two countries closer together in a million different ways. We've accomplished a lot together and I'm optimistic about what the future holds.
The kids and I have been enjoying the great adventures we had in China, reconnecting with family members in Shanghai and Taishan, and working with Chinese and American friends to increase people-to-people exchange. It has been our family's greatest honor to represent the millions of Chinese Americans as well as all Americans who appreciate the value of family and community that the Chinese new year is embodied so well.
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