More than 100 artifacts unearthed from a burial site near Xi'an, China, will be on display at the High Museum.

The Chinese ambassador to the United States will headline a gala dinner in Atlanta on Nov. 10 celebrating three decades of diplomatic ties between the two countries. 

Zhou Wenzhong became China’s top representative in Washington in 2005, continuing a long and decorated career in the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The National Association of Chinese-Americans will host the dinner, which takes place about a week before the debut at the High Museum of Art of an exhibition featuring China’s premier archaeological treasure, the 2,200-year-old terracotta warriors.

NACA has helped gather some 70 volunteers from local educational institutions to help facilitate the exhibition.

After about 30 years of cool relations in the wake of the communist takeover of China in 1949, the U.S. switched its official diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China, the exiled government in Taiwan, to the communist People’s Republic of China.

Around the same time, China’s leadership enacted reforms that would start it on a gradual course to integration with world markets. 

Thirty years later, China’s cooperation on the global economic stage has shown to be particularly useful in attracting foreign investment, one of the main catalysts for its unprecedented economic growth.

This has not come without tension.  The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing brought to the fore some of the sore spots between democratic countries and an economically bolstered China on human rights issues.

The National Association of Chinese-Americans has sought to foster healthy interaction between the two countries since 1977, two years before the normalization of relations.  

China has become Georgia’s second-largest export destination, and the state in recent years has made concerted efforts to court investment and tourists from there.

The state opened a trade and tourism office in Beijing in April.