【正】It was midwinter in Beijing in January with piercingly cold north wind blowing. When people had completed a year of busy work and were preparing to greet the arrival of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rat, a CPAFFC delegation headed by its vice president Li Xiaolin paid a goodwill visit to Israel and Palestine, countries that were both familiar and mysterious to us. The visit was made at the invitation of the Council for the Promotion of Israel-China Relations and the Palestine-China Friendship Association.