From September 3 to 7, 2019, Professor Lin Jiali, Dean of the School of Humanity & Foreign Languages of Zhejiang Shuren University and Vice Chairman of the International Association of Travel Literature in Chinese, was invited to Manila, Philippines, to attend the "Thousand Islands Country and Cultural Footprint of Chinese - The 3rd International Forum & the Preparatory Meeting of the 7th International Conference on Travel Writings in Chinese". He was also the guest speaker at the opening ceremony.

The conference was jointly organized by the International Association of Travel Literature in Chinese and the Philippine Chinese Writers Association.

Professor Lin Jiali's speech was entitled "A Concentrated History of the Struggle of Overseas Chinese in the Philippines: Talk about Yanhuo (Me and Adoptive father)".