On June 4th, 65438, when Zhou Enlai met the American table tennis team in the Great Hall of the People, he said, "You have opened a new chapter in the relationship between the Chinese and American peoples. I believe that this new beginning of our friendship will be supported by most people in our two countries. " On April 1972, China table tennis team paid a return visit to the United States. The exchange of visits between Chinese and American table tennis teams has aroused international public opinion and become a world-renowned event, which has been called "table tennis diplomacy" by the media. Since then, it has ended the isolation of personnel exchanges between China and the United States for more than 20 years and achieved a historic breakthrough in Sino-US reconciliation. 1972 February 2 1 day, Nixon visited China, and Sino-US relations finally moved towards normalization.

1971April 10 to June 17, the American table tennis delegation participating in the 3rd1World Table Tennis Championships held in Nagoya, Japan visited China at the invitation of the China table tennis delegation, which opened the door to Sino-US exchanges after 22 years of isolation and was praised as "table tennis diplomacy" by international public opinion.

During the 3rd1table tennis championship, the American table tennis delegation told the China table tennis delegation that they hoped to visit China after the match. On April 6, the game was coming to an end. President Mao Zedong changed his mind and decided to invite the American table tennis delegation to visit our country.

On April 10, the president, director and athletes of American Table Tennis Association Cohen and resek arrived in Beijing. Premier Zhou Enlai made specific arrangements for this visit, pointing out that this visit is a good opportunity to open up the situation of Sino-US relations. This move has had an impact on the breakthrough of Sino-US relations, and is called "small ball pushes big ball"

Zhou Enlai met with the first visiting American sports delegation since the founding of New China.

Members of the American table tennis delegation visited the Great Wall.

On April 6, 2004, Premier Zhou of the State Council met with table tennis delegations from the United States, Canada, Colombia and other countries in the Great Hall of the People, and had a long talk with the American delegation. The Chinese and American table tennis teams held a friendship match. American friends also visited the Great Wall and Tsinghua University. On the same day, US President Nixon issued a statement and adopted a series of measures to improve and ease relations between the two countries.