Celebration of the 72nd Anniversary of the Founding of P R China and the 30th Anniversary of China-Latvia Diplomatic Relations
On September 22, 2021, Embassy of People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Latvia organized an online celebration of the 72nd Anniversary of the Founding of P R China and the 30th Anniversary of China-Latvia Diplomatic Relations, among others were two directors from Confucius Institute at University of Latvia who were invited to participate the activity.
Ambassador Liang Jianquan delivered the opening and closing remarks, and three representatives (Mr. Nils Jansons, Director General of the Bilateral Relations Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Mr. Vjaceslavs Dombrovskis, Chairman of the Group for promoting cooperation with the Parliament of the People’s Republic of China, and Mr. Peteris Pildegovics, Director of Confucius Institute at University of Latvia) made a speech successively, and a video about China’s development and China-Latvian relations was also shown during the event.
Ambassador Liang Jianquan and the three representatives reviewed the great achievements of China’s internal affairs and diplomacy as well as China-Latvian relations, and were full of expectations for the future development of China-Latvian bilateral relations. As a witness of the development of China-Latvian relations after Latvia’s regained independence and a leading figure in Chinese language teaching in Latvia, Prof. Pildegovics discussed the bilateral relations between China and Latvia and the achievements of Chinese language teaching in Latvia based on his own personal experience.
Prof. Pildegovics pointed out that People’s Republic of China was among the first countries in the World – in September 7, 1991 who recognized regained Independence of the RL and just after short five days Delegation of the Foreign Ministry of PRC arrived in Riga and both Countries in September 12, 1991 established diplomatic Relations. Over the past 30 years, the two countries have maintained stable, active and pragmatic dialogue as well as exchanges and cooperation at all levels. He himself has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 10 years since Latvia regained its independence. In the first five years, he served as the head of the Asia Division. He participated in the whole process of the deepening of China-Latvian relations. In 1994, he was in the Prime Minister’s delegation and the President’s delegation to visit China, witnessing the normalization of relations between the two countries. In 1998-2000, his duty was to open Latvian Embassy in PRC. During this Period he met two Presidents of PRC – Jiang Zemin and Hi Jintao and had short exchange of ideas about LR and PRC Relations. The other field he has made contribution is teaching Chinese Language in University of Latvia, starting from Year 1986. He together with his wife spent 8 years in compiling “ The Big Chinese – Latvian Dictionary”, which we started in 2002, when he worked in “Xin Hua News Agency”. In 2010 at Shanghai World Expo this Dictionary was presented in Latvian pavilion. The same year during National Day Reception on 18 November – for “The Big Chinese – Latvian Dictionary” he was awarded “Three Stars Order of Latvia”. After that he with his wife spent 6 years in compiling “Latvian – Chinese, Chinese – Latvian Dictionary”. In 2016 during the 5th China-CEEC “16 +1” Summit in Riga he presented this Dictionary to Prime Minister of PRC – His Excellence Li Keqiang. Besides that he wrote the Book “My Chinese Diary” in Latvian, which was published in 2019. Later it was translated into Chinese and published by Commercial Press this year. The book is also translated into Russian and English and will be published very soon. Right now he is translating Tang Dynasty Poetry. Looking to the fast changing World, Prof. Pildegovics is convinced that Relations between PL and PRC are going the right way.
2021年9月22日，中国驻拉脱维亚大使馆举办ZOOM线上“庆祝国庆中华人民共和国72周年和中拉建交30周年招待会”，拉脱维亚大学孔子学院两位院长应邀参加庆祝活动。
梁建全大使致开幕词和闭幕词，三位嘉宾代表（拉脱维亚外交部双边关系负责人亚森斯先生、拉脱维亚议会拉中合作小组主席多姆布罗夫斯基先生和拉脱维亚大学孔子学院拉方院长贝德高先生）先后发言，活动中还播放了有关中国发展和中拉关系的视频。
梁建全大使和三位嘉宾代表回顾了中国内政外交和中拉关系取得的巨大成就，并对中拉双边关系的未来发展充满期待。作为拉脱维亚恢复独立后中拉关系发展的亲历者和拉脱维亚汉语教学的带头人，贝德高院长从他本人的切身经历出发畅谈了中拉双边关系和拉脱维亚汉语教学的成就。
贝教授指出，中国是世界上最早承认拉脱维亚独立的国家之一，拉脱维亚宣布恢复独立五天后，中国外交部代表团即抵达里加，两国于1991年9月12日建立外交关系。三十年来，两国保持稳定、积极和务实的对话以及各个层面的交流合作。他本人从拉脱维亚恢复独立伊始就在外交部工作长达10年，头五年任亚洲处负责人，参与了中拉关系不断深化的全过程，1994年他随同总理代表团和总统代表团访问中国，见证了两国关系走上正常化。1998-2000年，他在中国创办拉脱维亚大使馆，先后与江泽民主席和胡锦涛主席见面，交换中拉两国关系方面的看法。他的另一个重要活动领域是从1986年开始在拉脱维亚大学教授汉语，并从2011年开始出任拉脱维亚大学孔子学院院长。期间，他与夫人一起花费8年时间编撰出版《汉语拉脱维亚语大词典》（始于2002年他在北京新华社工作期间），2010年该词典在上海世博会上展出，在同年11月18日国庆招待会上他因此被授予“拉脱维亚三星勋章”。之后，他和夫人一起花费6年时间编撰出版《精选拉汉-汉拉词典》，2016年该词典被作为国礼赠送给出席第五届中国中东欧“16+1”政府首脑峰会的李克强总理。除此之外，他撰写《我的中国日记》，2019年出版拉语版，今年出版中文版，不久将出版俄语版和英语版。目前，他正在翻译《唐诗》。贝教授在发言结尾中说，展望风云变换的世界，他坚信中拉两国关系行走在正确的道路上。
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