Friendship Hotel

On 22 December 2019 I was invited by the Beijing Global Talents Exchange Association for their yearly event at the Friendship Palace (Friendship Hotel). Good to meet several old friends, including Michael Crook I had not seen since … 2009.
Also pictured: Song Peng and Ding Zhifeng (Executive President and Secretary General of BGTEA).

The program of “Talents Forum & Global Talent Summit 2020”:

Award-giving Ceremony – Global Talent Meritorious Honor Award for Isabel Crook followed by her birthday celebration (104 years young!).
BGTEA Ambassadors Awards: Michael Crook, David G. Evans, Erik Robert Nilsson.
Distinguished Foreign Experts Awards: David Feng, Vassilia Pirierros, Terry Crossman and others.
Unveiling “Beijing Home from Home for Foreign Friends by Michael Crook.
International students’ performance and Foreign experts’ performance (Mark Levine and others).

The event

We first had a buffet dinner where I met several familiar faces…
The event was immediately featured on CCTV4, and the clip was shown on screen.
Fu Han was one of the hosts and performed with Mark Levine.
Ding Zhifeng gave a (long) report on the BGTEA activities.

Beijing Global Talents Exchange Association

BGTEA (Global Talent Association) is short for Beijing Global Talent Exchange Association is registered in Zhongguancun, and approved by the civil affairs department as a national organization. Under the strategy on developing a quality workforce, BGTEA aims to facilitate exchanges and cooperation of talents, technologies and high-tech projects, develop an innovation-driven country and offer intellectual support for progress.

BGTEA was initiated by 7 institutions, including Beijing Normal University, Beijing Keda high-tech Ltd., etc. Since the foundation on March 30th, 2015, We have made many achievements, gathered experts on global talents exchange and high-tech projects, reserved a bunch of overseas elites on science and technology.
Website: http://www.talent.org.cn/public/index.php/index/en/index

I am member of the (Foreign) Advisory Committee of Experts.