Allison Vulgamore (left), president and CEO of The Philadelphia Orchestra, presents a gift to Lu Kang (right), deputy chief of mission of the Chinese embassy in Washington, while Nicholas Platt, former president of Asia Society and the chief of political section of US Liaison Office in Beijing in the early 1970s, looked on during a press conference on Tuesday at the Chinese embassy held by the Philadelphia Orchestra to share information about its long history of cultural exchanges with China, dating back in 1973. [Chen Weihua/China Daily]