ABSTRACT
The Chinese news agency Zhongguo xinwen she reported on January 3rd, 1995: "Jewish descendants in Kaifeng want official status." In this report from Kaifeng authors read: Kaifeng city of Henan Province and Jewish descendants hope to make use of the relationship between the history of Kaifeng and the Jewish people to attract foreign investment. Since the beginning of the Openness Policy, the relationship and interaction of our country with the Jews has continuously grown. Because of the distinctive characteristics of China and of the Jewish people, and because of the fascination Chinese society has for the Jews, more and more Jews have come to China to visit, to invest, to do business, to work, to study and to live. In the summer of 1998 when President Clinton made his historic visit to China, one of the items on his itinerary was a visit to the site of the Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai.
