How do the Guidelines address ceremonial protocol? Please give examples.

1. Protocol means domestic and overseas activities that, in accordance with common courtesy and local custom, are conducted by civil servants when visiting, meeting with or receiving foreign dignitaries or carrying forward government business or facilitating discussions (see Guidelines, Article 2, Paragraph 4).
2. Examples: Visits by the head of an agency or other employees to another organization and the exchange of souvenirs as gifts, or activities held by overseas compatriots abroad to which officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission or other government agencies are invited.