Philippine media reportThe former chief reporter of the United States CNN (CNN) Jaime Adriano Florcruz, the chief reporter in Beijing, is the new ambassador to China and is currently waiting for the Philippine Syrian Commission.
According to the Philippine Business Daily on Sunday (November 6), the Philippine Syrian Commission announced on October 22 on the Philippine Media Manila Times and the Manila Standard Newsletter.The three people will be appointed as the ambassador abroad, including the appointment of Jimmy as a full -power ambassador to the Philippines in China, and concurrently the ambassador to North Korea and Mongolia.
Reporting describes that Jimmy is one of the few "China Tong" and "Zhihua School" in the Philippines.He was asked when he was interviewed by the Philippine Business Daily and was asked during the grudge with the Marco family that he was willing to let go of his prejudice and everything was for the Philippines.
In 1971, the Chinese People's Association of Friendship with Foreign Friendship invited more than a dozen Philippine student leaders such as Jimmy to visit China. They regarded the Philippine government's ban on the People's Republic of China who had not yet established diplomatic relations with the Philippines.On the day they arrived in Beijing, the then President Marco announced the suspension of personal freedom. They were trapped in China. Although someone returned to China one after another, they chose to stay in China after they learned that they had on the blacklist of the Marco government., I have lived in 50 years.
At that time, the Chinese Cultural Revolution was not over yet, and Jimmy and two other companions Rome (the late former ambassador to China) and Elison Bagulau (the current chief reporter of the NBC TV station in the United States) followed.The educated youth went up the mountains and went to the countryside. He first worked in rural Hunan and later worked on fishing boats in Qingdao.
In 1977, Jimmy returned to the Department of History of Peking University and focused on Chinese history. During the same period, the students include the current Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang.
Jimmy later served as a reporter in China in the United States, Journalism Weekly reporters, and chief reporters in CNN in China until retirement in 2015.
Jimmy is regarded as the "Big Brother" of the Beijing Foreign Journalist Group, becoming the longest -term foreign journalist in China.He has been the president of the Chinese Foreign Journalists Association twice and also founded the Peking University International Student Alumni Association.In 2017, he was the vice president of the Alumni Association of Peking University, currently a professor at the Asian Center of Peking University and the National University of the Philippines, and vice chairman of the Chinese Studies Society of the Philippines.
After retiring, he was invited to give speeches around the world as an observer of China, sharing his experience in China, and how he witnessed that New China has ranked among the world's power from one poor and two.