Eirene Hope Liu，
A 10 Year Old Girl Who Actively Paints
And
Participated
In The Exhibition
On the Anniversary of 9/11
NEW YORK, NY., Sept
11
The Chinese American Hotel Association held a photo
exhibition to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
The Event was hosted in Chinatown today, 11 September,
and called on the government
to reopen Pak Road and revive Chinatown’s small businesses.
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Huang Huaqing,
chairman of the association, said that the association had
held photo exhibitions on the fifth, 10th and 15th
anniversaries of 9/11, and hoped that this year, the exhibition
would remind Chinese businessmen to unite and fight against
the attacks.
9/11 was the
most painful accident in NY history. since that time, The
closure of Chinatown Pak Road for 20 years was a painful ,
blow to the Chinatown economy
and blocked economic ties.
Steven wong said the
terrorist attacks on government grants the world trade
center reconstruction, full of vigor and vitality for
today’s financial district and Wall Street , but neighbors
of Chinatown, was still closed because cypress road which is
unreasonable, it cause the serious lack of traffic parking,
twenty years inanimate, lifeless, plus Chinatown and the
outbreak of the new Covid 19 last year, continue to let
small shops, hotel industry has gone down.
Before the
exhibition, The American Hotel Association called for
Chinese artists and photographers to actively submit
their art works
and to support their community by exhibiting.
After learning the news, Eirene Hope Liu, a 10 years old
senior student of Jericho Cantigague Primary School,
immediately began to create a new painting for 911, she
completed the painting in two hours.
The Exhibition was a huge success.
Huang Huaqing,
President of the Hotel Association, said:
We
must help the next generation
remembers the day 9/11,
We will teach our children about peace
through education we will be
successful
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Eirene Hope Liu
was born in a family that lives by the motto
“Harmony for Peace”.
She often participated in UN and community volunteer
performers with her sister and brother since childhood.
A week ago, she attended a fundraising performance in support of
mayor-elect Eric Adams with her sister and brother.
She said:
“We can’t forget the sad history of 9/11".
New York is a cosmopolitan city of all races and colors from
the world.
New York must be harmony.
We must elect a
Harmony mayor who Eric Adam is the one.
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