Xi Jinping Replies to Letters from Mayor of Tacoma Victoria Woodards and Mayor of Steilacoom Dick Muri of the U.S. State of Washington

On January 31, 2022, President Xi Jinping replied separately to letters from Mayor of Tacoma Victoria Woodards and Mayor of Steilacoom Dick Muri of the U.S. State of Washington.

Xi Jinping pointed out, the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 is a joyous event for the Chinese people and a great event for the international Olympic cause. With the support of the Chinese people and the international community, we will certainly present a streamlined, safe and splendid Games, practice the Olympic motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger - Together", and bring people across the world together for a shared future. Xi Jinping also extended holiday greetings to all citizens of the two cities.

Mayor Woodards and Mayor Muri recently sent messages to President Xi Jinping separately, extending their Spring Festival greetings to President Xi Jinping and the Chinese people and wishing the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 a success. Mayor Woodards said, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is fortunate for the whole world to have a responsible host country with great organizational capacity like China to hold a safe, healthy and successful Winter Olympics. The people of Tacoma will watch the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 and cheer for athletes and Beijing. Mayor Muri said, we hold high expectations for Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 and believe it will be well organized and greatly successful. My family and I, as well as the 6,700 residents of Steilacoom, look forward to watching the wonderful performance of the athletes on television. The two mayors also conveyed their wish that the Year of the Tiger will be a year of enhancing peace, friendship and solidarity.