Feature: 32 years on, memories about Rewi Alley continue to promote NZ-China friendship

Deng Bangzhen, a painter and one of Rewi Alley's adopted sons, colors a statue featuring Rewi Alley in Auckland, New Zealand, Aug. 30, 2019. People from both New Zealand and China still very often talk about Rewi Alley, a New Zealand-born writer, social reformer and educator, even 32 years after his death in Beijing. An old friend of the Chinese people, Rewi Alley spent 60 years living and working in China. He made important contributions to the Chinese people's fight against the fascist invasion, the economic development of the new China, and the friendship between China and New Zealand. TO GO WITH "Feature: 32 years on, memories about Rewi Alley continue to promote NZ-China friendship" (Xinhua/Guo Lei)