In February 2016, Luo Linquan, the Consul General of The People’s Republic of China in San Francisco, sent the Sonoma-Penglai Sister City Committee this letter, wishing us a good New Year of the Monkey and supporting our building a Chinese Pavilion (Ting) in Sonoma to honor the Chinese workers who, beginning in the late 1800’s, helped build the budding winery industry in Sonoma County and elsewhere in California.