From left: Liang Shijie, deputy director of CAAC central and southern regional administration; Gert-Jan de Graff, president and CEO of JFKIAT, LLC; Michael Moran, JFK general Manager; Si Xianmin, chairman of China Southern Airlines; Susan T. Mitchell, port director of JFK Airport; Rich Newman, executive vice-president of state marketing strategy at Empire State Development; Cheng Lei, acting consul general of Chinese Consulate General in New York; pose for a group photo after the press conference of China Southern Airlines’ Boeing 777-300ER Guangzhou-New York inaugural flight on Wednesday at JFK International Airport. [HU HAIDAN / CHINA DAILY]