“Yong Bell”, a gift from Guangzhou to Los Angeles to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the sister city establishment, was installed at the Golden Station in Chinatown in 2003.

2003 July -- Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn (third from left) participated in the unveiling ceremony of the Yong Bell.

"Children's Arts Exhibition of Sister Cities" -- May 2002, co-organized by LAGSCA, LA -- Mexico City ASister City Committee and LA Inner City Arts. Over 300 artworks of the children of Los Angeles, Guangzhou, Mexico City were displayed at the Tom Bradley Terminal at Los Angeles World Airport, demonstrating the sister city friendship between LA and its sister cities.

In 1982, LAGSCA assisted with the negotiations for the two red pandas from China that were given to the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association. In turn, Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association made a permanent gift of two drill baboons to the Guangzhou Zoo.

In 1984, LAGSCA assisted in the negotiations with China for the six-month loan of two giant pandas that China made to the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association in honor of the Summer Olympics on Los Angeles.

LAGSCA has assisted the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in an exhibition of Chinese Bronzes, hosted numerous other exhibits by Chinese artists, and has held seminars at the Pacific Asia Museum and similar venues.

Along with the sponsorship and planning grants of corporate board members ARCO and AT&T, LAGSCA supported two major exhibitions of Chinese paintings at the Pacific Asia Museum, which were the first important exhibitions of Chinese contemporary art outside of China - "Beyond the Open Door" (1987), "I Don't Want to Play Cards With Cezanne," (1991) and other works.

LAGSCA supported the exhibition at the Pacific Asia Museum, "Trade with China, the Celestial Kingdom."

The exhibit featured the Kelton Foundation’s major collection of paintings, artifacts and photographs depicting a year of the tall ships traveling between ports of the US and China.

The Association has offered members private tours at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts, the Asia Pacific Museum and the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art.

In 1987, LAGSCA supported corporate board members, Los Angeles Dodgers and AT&T, in their sponsorship of a United States tour of a Chinese youth-exhibition baseball team.

Under the leadership of our corporate board member, the Los Angeles Dodgers, LAGSCA assisted in the development for a Little League "Friendship" baseball field in Guangzhou in 1990 still going strong 12 years later.