Photo event collects Sino-US memories

Sarah Daley, a student at the University of Virginia, has deep connections with China. She spent the summer of 2018 teaching English in Hebei province and has a younger sister who was adopted from China in 2009. Both experiences left her with positive impressions of Chinese people and long-lasting friendships.

Those connections led to Daley being honored by the Chinese embassy in the United States during an award ceremony in Washington on Saturday, after she shared her stories with the world through an event hosted by the embassy and China Daily.

"The overall stability of China-US relations over the past four decades has been a blessing to not only our two countries, but the whole world," said Cui Tiankai, Chinese ambassador to the US, in his remarks during the awards presentation.