Li Yang, a Chinese resident officer at NEAR Secretariat who was dispatched from Heilongjiang Province in China on December 28, 2018 completed his tenure and returned to China on December 27.

Li Yang contributed to business exchange between the Secretariat and Chinese Regional Governments, taking charge of support work of various international interchange meetings held by Chinese members as well as supervising Chinese documents drawn up at the Secretariat for the past year.   

As part of his parting greeting to his colleagues of at the Secretariat, Li Yang, who majored in Korean literature, quoted a line from the poem Silence of Lover, ‘We believe that we’ll meet again when we part.’ by Han Yong-woon, one of the representative national poets of Korea.