The People to People Ambassador Programs (PPAP), a non-governmental organization of the United States, will send more than 30 delegations from the US and other special international organizations to southwest China's Guizhou Province this year.
Ralph Baard, vice-president of PPAP made the announcement at a news conference held Guiyang Friday.
He said, to cooperate with the efforts of the Chinese government to develop the country's western region, PPAP will send more than 1,000 people to visit Guizhou this year to conduct exchanges with concerned universities in the field of medicine, education, agriculture, science and technology.
The organization will send more than 2,000 people to Guizhou in 2002, according to Ralph.
A 52-member delegation sent by the PPAP visited Guizhou in March and conducted exchanges with Guizhou Teachers' University in the field of mental health.
PPAP was set up by former US president Eisenhower in 1956. The organization has sent more than 50,000 people to China to conduct professional, scientific and technological exchanges since it began exchanges with China in 1977.
(Xinhua 04/23/2001)
