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Opportunities introduces significant charitable, cultural, and educational projects that seek American business support and aims to assist companies in identifying programs meriting their assistance. The materials contained in Opportunities are boiled down; our aim is to provide contact information and only the most skeletal description of each organization's interests. I strongly encourage interested companies to make direct contact with the programs contained here, so that each firm can review for itself the more detailed materials that individual organizations can provide. The importance of American corporate participation in programs that bring benefit to the people of China and strengthen the bonds of US-China friendship beyond the commercial realm cannot be overstated. We congratulate the many American firms that support a wide range of important and positive efforts in China and hope that Opportunities will help companies to explore new ways of making a difference.
Robert A. Kapp
(Note: The purpose of Opportunities is to facilitate direct contact between interested companies and project developers. The US-China Business Council is not a sponsor of any project listed in Opportunities and makes no recommendation with regard to corporate assistance to any specific project.)
This exhibition will explore the contemporary art that is being produced in northwest China, where cultures have been intermingling for centuries as merchants and others have traversed this ancient route connecting east and west. The exhibition seeks to find ways in which the past has influenced the present in the cultural diversity that characterizes the area today. The exhibition will open at Meridian in Washington, DC, in mid-2004 and then be sent by Meridian's Traveling Exhibition Service on a nationwide tour of the United States. Sponsorship is being sought from a consortium of corporations and foundations.
China's AIDS epidemic is unfolding rapidly and threatens to undermine the remarkable economic progress China has made in the last 20 years. Local officials throughout China are largely unaware of international success stories in halting or reversing the progression of the disease or the public policies and required budget needed to do so in China. We therefore propose to organize an executive training course on AIDS public policy for Chinese officials. Coordinated by Harvard and Qinghua universities, a team of international experts will work with Qinghua to develop a core curriculum and design a two- to three-week training course to be conducted in China for national, provincial, and local government officials. The course will be launched in China in summer 2003 and co-taught by Harvard and Qinghua faculty for the first few times (twice a year). Provinces and counties most severely affected by the AIDS epidemic will be invited to join the early sessions. Eventually Qinghua would assume responsibility for teaching the course, with Harvard consultation and assistance as needed. Within as short a time as possible, Qinghua would assist provincial-level academic institutions to conduct the course for county level government staff throughout China.
The China Business Review, Volume 29, Number 6, November-December 2002
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