[1][2][3][4] According to its website, the group "organizes and conducts educational tours to China, often in conjunction with its continuing exchange with the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC).

Its founding convention was held at the University of California in Los Angeles, with speakers including authors David Crook and Han Suyin.

[6]: 123 Hinton was later succeeded as Chairman of the USCPFA by California attorney Frank Pestana and by Mississippi civil rights activist Unita Blackwell.

Notable members of the National Steering Committee included Koji Ariyoshi, a veteran of the World War II Dixie Mission to Yenan and founder of the Hawaii-China Friendship Association, and New York activists Helen V. Rosen and Esther Gollobin.

[citation needed] Starting in the 1970s, the national association or regional chapters published the journal New China and short books and pamphlets such as Debbie Davison, Mark Selden, William Hinton, Chou En-Lai and the Chinese Revolution / Conversations with Americans: Interviews (Los Angeles: US–China Peoples Friendship Association, 1977), Hugh Deane Remembering Koji Ariyoshi: An American GI in Yenan, and China and Us (New York: U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association).