Since its inception, over the years, the association has been recognized as a driving force successfully assembling and supporting the Chinese writers in Europe.
Apart from a few (Ms. Susie Chao, Mr. Chu Wen-Huei, Ms. Daming Lü, Ms. Wang Jiafeng), all other founding members (Ms. Foncy Kuo, Ms. Hsu Sheng-Mei, Ms. S.S. Schwedler, Ms. Yang Ling, Mr. Zu Wei) only finally met face to face either at their hotel on the eve of the opening ceremony or during the ceremony itself.
At that time, Mr. Sui Haoping, then only 30-year-old, but already a well-known writer, TV presenter, and a household name in Taiwan, was in the UK for his PhD studies.
To ensure that the venue and organization of the opening ceremony were perfectly ready, Ms. Chao, who was based in Switzerland, undertook a special trip to Paris prior to the event.
Chinese writers, who until then mostly worked in isolation in different parts of the world, came under one roof, to share the same passion and a longing for their homeland.