On this Day in Chinese History; 10 April

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This day, 10 April, in 1971, the American table tennis delegation participating in the 31st World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan, visited China at the invitation of the Chinese delegation. This visit opened the door on the 22 year isolation between China and America, promoting the normalisation of Sino-US relations and earning international acclaim as “ping-pong diplomacy”.

这一天,即1971年4月10日,参加在日本名古屋举行的第31届世界乒乓球锦标赛的美国乒乓球代表团应中国代表团的邀请访问了中国。 这次访问开启了中美22年隔阎的大门,促进了中美关系的正常化,並贏得了「乒乓球外交」的國際讚譽。

Visiting Nanjing