Under the reporter exchange program set up with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in March, 2000, Mr. Ding Bang Jie, Managing Editor and Ms. Tang Xu Fen, Editor from Nanjing Daily, China, came to St. Louis on 06/07/2000 and will be staying for 10 days. 

They will interview St. Louis City officials, major companies, educational institutes, environmental organizations, museums, the St. Louis-Nanjing sister city committee, and the St. Louis Chinese community.  Hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Sherwen Liu, a welcome dinner party was held at the St. Louis Mandarin House Chinese restaurant on 06/08 after they visited the St. Louis Chinese American News. They visited with a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, Mr. Jon Sawyer, who just came back from Nanjing after 3 weeks of exchange reporting there.