Vanuatu Prime Minister Edward Natapei Visited Our Museum

On the morning of 14th, Apr, a delegation led by Vanuatu Prime Minister Edward Natapei and the couple of Cheng Shu-ping, Chinese ambassadors in Vanuatu, visited our museum accompanied by Guo Kai-lang, vice-governor of Hunan Province and Fu Xing-hua, deputy director of Hunan’s Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.

Natapei (third from the left) and his wife (second from the left) are looking at the Plain Silk Gauze Gown

Under the guidance of an English docent, Natapei visited our museum’s key display---Cultural Relics from Mawangdui Han Tombs with great interest. He was especially impressed by the music instruments, textiles, bamboo tablets and silk scripts that represented the high scientific and technological level of Han Dynasty, saying that these things are “incredible”. 

At the end of the visiting, Natapei wrote on our museum’s guestbook, “This is our most memorable visiting in China and we enjoy it very much. I must congratulate you on these well-preserved cultural and historical relics and thank you for your generosity.”

Natapei is writing on the guestbbok

The delegation led by Natapei came to visit China on the invitation of Chinese Premier Wen Jia-bao. Apart from Beijing and Hunan, they will also go to other places like Guangdong to get first-hand information about China’s economic development.