May 16, 2007
Song Jingquan
The Japanese Esperanto Institute is issuing a special invitation to 23 Asian Esperanto activists to take part in this year's World Esperanto Congress in Yokohama. In the April issue of the Japanese magazine La Revuo Orienta JEI has published statements by each of these people. I am reproducing them here, in English translation, one by one.
The next listed activist is SONG Jingquan of China. Song is a 42-year-old customs officer.
Esperanto and I
I became an Esperanto speaker in 1983. I was elected vice-president of the Tianjin Esperanto Association in 1993, as general secretary in 1998, as vice-president as well as general secretary in 2005. I am an adviser to the Chinese Esperanto League. I often inform about Esperanto, have taught Esperanto in the Esperanto course, organized the 14th Common Seminar among Chinese, Japanese and Korean Youth in Tianjin, participated in the 71st World Esperanto Congress in Beijing in 1986, the 79th World Esperanto Congress in Seoul in 1994, the 89th World Esperanto Congress in Beijing in 2004, the 3rd Asian Congress in Korea in 2002, and national congresses, conferences and meetings. In 2006 I was invited as a worker by the Local Congress Committee of the 58th Railway Workers' Esperanto Congress in Shanghai. I have also often received Esperanto speakers from various countries, from example Japanese, German, Iranian, Swedish, American, Bulgarian, Australian, New Zealander, Polish, Korean etc.
World Esperanto Congress and After
As a sincere and active Esperantist, I will work harder to inform about our common language Esperanto, as I have done before, so that more and more people will get to know and learn Esperanto and speak Esperanto.