From left: Samuel Mok, president of National China Garden Foundation; Chavonda Jacobs-Young, administrator of Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA); Susan Thornton, US principal deputy assistant secretary of state; Catherine Novelli, US undersecretary of state; Catherine Woteki, undersecretary and chief scientist of USDA; Jiang Zehui, vice-chair of the Committee of Population, Resources and Environment of CPPCC; State Forestry Administration Director Zhang Jianlong; Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai; Le Aimei, vice-president of China Ecoculture Association and counselor of Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Cong Peiwu, head of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of Ministry of Foreign Affairs attend a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday afternoon for the China Garden in the US National Arboretum in Washington. The Memorandum of Understanding for the Sino-US China Garden Project was first signed in October 2004. [Photo by Chen Weihua/China Daily]