Chen Zhu, vice chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee; Lu Shaye, Chinese ambassador to France; Laurent Fabius, President of the French Constitutional Council; Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former French prime minister; Sophie Robuchon and Michel Bernardaud, representatives of the event’s French hosts; Ernesto Ottone Ramírez, assistant director-general for Culture of UNESCO; as well as Chen Dong and Chen Li, Chinese envoys to France attended the event along with more than 60 dignitaries important to both Chinese and French politics, business and culture.