In March 1971, a 60-member table tennis delegation sent by China went to Nagoya, Japan to participate in the 31st World Table Tennis Championships.
During the game, the U.S. table tennis delegation heard that China invited some teams from other countries to visit China after the World Table Tennis Championships in Japan, so they proposed that the U.S. table tennis team also wanted to come to China, and did not immediately give instructions, until the third day, had decided not to invite the U.S. table tennis team, but changed their attention before going to bed, the news that the Chinese team invited the U.S. table tennis team to play in China soon spread to the United States, and the U.S. team played two games in Beijing and Shanghai.
On April 14, *** met with the members of the U.S. table tennis team, and said to them that you have opened a new chapter in the relationship between the Chinese and American peoples, and I believe that this new beginning of our friendship will be supported by the majority of the people of our two countries, in February 1972, Detroit, which is known as the "hometown of table tennis" in the United States, some people who love table tennis and are full of expectations for China specially made two sets of table tennis rackets, and the center pattern of the blue table tennis racket is a pigeon with an olive branch in its mouth, and a is written on it in English Generation of Peace: An era of peace is used to express appreciation for the beginning of the "era of peace" between China and the United States.