On Jan 14th, Chinese Microsoft Employee Network held 2012 Microsoft Asian Spring Festival at Redmond, where the headquarters of Microsoft is located. Consul General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco Gao Zhansheng, the Lieutenant Governor of Washington Brad Owen, and the president of Microsoft's Online Services Division Qi Lu attended this event to celebrate Spring Festival with over 2000 attendees.

    In addition to wishing a best new year to everyone at the celebration, Consul General Gao talked about the development of China- U.S. relations in the past year, and the various achievements reached from a mutually beneficial relationship between The State of Washington and China. At the end of the speech, Consul General Gao thanked all the Microsoft employees for their contributions toward China- U.S. relations, and encouraged them to continue pushing forward the China- U.S. relations.