(Photo: Consul General James Levy personal photo) 

#美中40年# #历任美国总统访华# 美国前总统吉米·卡特（Jimmy Carter）形容美中关系是“世界上最重要的友谊之一”。卡特总统时常谈起中国对于他有着一生的吸引。当卡特还是个小男孩的时候，他在海军服役的叔叔从中国寄给他信件和礼物。卡特记得在1949年第一次乘潜艇到访中国南方的美好回忆，也还保留着香港港湾、街头巷尾还有人力车的照片。多年之后，这张照片记录下了卡特2011年重返中国南方之旅。

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter describes U.S.-China relations as “one of the most important friendships in the world.”  President Carter sometimes talks about his lifelong fascination with China.  When he was a small boy, his uncle who was in the Navy sent him letters and gifts from China.  Carter remembers fondly visiting southern China on his first submarine in 1949 and still has photographs of Hong Kong Bay, streets, and rickshaws.  Years later, this picture shows Carter’s return to southern China in 2011.