Dick Murray is the mayor of stratocon, a small coastal town in the northwestern state of Washington. *** Murray was deeply honored: "you can imagine how many letters the Chinese president will receive every day. I'm just the mayor of a small town. I'm very grateful for the reply." A few days after receiving the reply, Murray watched the live broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games at home. "It's wonderful! I'll see it again!" Murray is confident that China will host a successful Winter Olympics. Murray (right) watches the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games at home. "This friendly relationship should be maintained and closer" According to Murray, stracon has a long tradition of friendly exchanges with China. In 2006, stracon city and Wenchang City, Hainan Province formed a sister city. *** Mayor Murray said in his letter that we especially look forward to and believe that the Beijing Winter Olympic Games will be well organized and very successful. My family and 6700 residents of stratocon are looking forward to watching the wonderful performance of athletes on TV. I wish the year of the tiger a year of peace, friendship and unity. Murray said that Washington state has very close economic and trade relations with China. Stracon is located in the gateway area of U.S. - China exchanges, facing China across the ocean, and deeply feels that the economies of the United States and China are dependent on each other. "This friendly relationship should be maintained and closer." "More efforts will be made to promote cooperation with China in the future" *** Murray believes that the future of U.S. - China Friendship depends on the acquaintance and affinity of the young people of the two countries. Chinese youth know more about the United States than American youth know about China. "The United States should send more students to study in China to learn Chinese and understand China." Murray's two grandchildren are approaching the age of high school. Murray hopes that they will have the opportunity to study in China in the future. Murray said that visiting China is my lifelong wish. I am deeply attracted by China's unique culture. I hope this wish can be realized as soon as possible. Murray also talked about the idea of "inviting pandas". He said that many Americans fall in love with Chinese culture through lovely pandas. At present, there are no giant pandas from China in the northwest of the United States. "We hope to invite the precious giant pandas here one day." According to him, not only stracon City, but also the whole northwest region are making efforts to this end, and even have preliminarily determined the place where giant pandas will live in the United States in the future. "To the future together, this is the significance of the Olympics" Murray watched the broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. He marveled: "the image display technology is extremely impressive. It's the best (opening ceremony) I've ever seen. It's particularly fascinating and wonderful!" He also said that he would watch the video of the opening ceremony again and again. On the evening of February 4, the opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games was held in Beijing National Stadium. This is the last torchbearer, diniger ilamujiang (left) and Zhao Jiawen embedded the torch in the center of the "big snowflake". Murray agreed with the slogan of "together for the future" of the Beijing Winter Olympics and said that the Olympic spirit has also provided enlightenment for the development of us China relations. "To the future together," Murray said. "That's the significance of the Olympics." (Xinhua News Agency)