On 20 July 06 the Beijing Rotary Club held a small reception, sponsored by Kempinski Hotel. The event was to welcome back Kong Li from Shaanxi Province, 9 years old, who had a successful surgery in New York. Media delegates also attended.

See in the picture: Mr. H. C. Kwok, General Manager of Continental Airlines; Kong Li with his father; Mrs. Sarah Randt, wife of the US Ambassador; Ruby Chang (Chairperson, Gift of Life, Beijing Rotary); Mike Furst (Beijing Rotary President).
The Gift of Life was established in 1975 by Rotary International and started full scale in China in 2001. Its purpose is to fund corrective heart surgeries for less privileged children. As a result, by 2005 the program helped 170 Chinese children out of which 25 underwent heart surgery in the USA. Other operations were done in Chinese partner hospitals.
The Gift of Life is one of the many programs of our Beijing Rotary Club.