FIVE DECADES AND COUNTING

Five decades may have gone by, but Ye Zhixiong, now in his 90s, can still clearly recall the warm welcome the Chinese delegation received inside the UN Assembly Hall on November 15, 1971. Ye, a Xinhua News Agency reporter at the time, was dis-patched there to witness the debut of the delegation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) at the UN. Some 20 days earlier, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 2758 to restore the PRC's lawful seat.