Across Americas
Updated: 2013-07-19 12:02
(China Daily)
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Los Angeles: LA welcome The new Chinese consul general in Los Angeles Liu Jian (fourth from right), and his wife were greeted on their arrival at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday morning by members of the local Chinese community. Provided To China Daily |
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Washington: Musical gift Li Hong, minister counselor for cultural aff airs at the Chinese embassy in the US, receives a CD from Joan Gregoryk, founder and director of the Children's Chorus of Washington, on Tuesday. The recording captures the group's spring concert of classical Chinese songs. Composed of students from over 100 schools in and around Washington, the children's choir is considered one of the best of its kind. This week it embarked on a China performance tour that includes Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an and Tianjin. Cai Chunying / China Daily |
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New York: Fabric fest Dignitaries assemble for a photo at the opening of the 15th Texworld USA and fourth Home Textiles Sourcing Expo and International Apparel Sourcing Show on Tuesday. Sun Guoxiang (fourth from right), China's consul general in New York, attended. Provided To China Daily |
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Thornhill, Ontario: Panda pause Celebrating the arrival in Toronto of giant pandas Da Mao and Er Shun, Consul General Fang Li of the Consulate General of China in Toronto and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne will co-host a fundraising gala on August 3 at the Toronto Zoo. Proceeds will go to the Canadian Fund for International Understanding through Culture's (Can4Culture) Canada-China Book Program, which donates books to schools in Sichuan, the pandas' home. Pictured here, guests and sponsors gather at a press conference on July 18 in Thornhill, Ontario to announce the gala, from left: Zheng Weili, president of Premier Candle Corp; Irwin Li, managing director of MENNIE Canada Ltd; Denson Xu, president and CEO of ZTE Canada Inc; Nelly Ng, chair of Can4Culture; Judy Lee, vice president of RBC Royal Bank; Consul General Fang Li; Michael Chan of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport; Jennifer Tracey, senior director at Toronto Zoo; Liu Ning, chief representative of UnionPay International Canada. Li Na / China Daily |
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Richmond Hill, Ontario: Warm welcome Wu Dongmei, Chinese deputy consul in Toronto, welcomes a delegation from the Guangdong Overseas Friendship Association on July 11 in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Delegates said they hoped to strengthen ties to Toronto's Chinese community and promote Guangdong province. From left: Jiang Leyi, head of the GOFA delegation; Wu; and Ma Songlin, president of the Guangdong Association of Canada. Li Na / China Daily |
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Los Angeles: Leading business Sun Weide (third from right), Chinese deputy consul in Los Angeles, joins other guests at the opening ceremony for the seventh World-Chinese Entrepreneur (USA) Forum on July 11. Overseas Chinese business leaders from Germany and Thailand, along with counterparts in the United States, took part in the forum. Provided To China Daily |
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New York: Showtime Dong Xiaojun (right), Chinese deputy consul general in New York, shakes hands with a cast member at the opening of the opera Monkey: Journey to the West on July 12. Provided To China Daily |
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Washington: Talking trade Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Yang (right) chats with US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and US Trade Representative Michael Froman during a morning meeting in Washington on July 12. Wang was in the US to co-chair the fifth US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Chen Weihua / China Daily |
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San Francisco: Bank on it Jim Wunderman (left), chairman of the Bay Area Council, a local business association, talks to Min Luhao, deputy director general of non-bank financial institution supervision of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, during a Visa-Meridian-sponsored delegation visit from China on Wednesday. Zhang Qidong / China Daily |
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Washington: Linsanity rules Producers Christopher Chen (left) and Brian Yang pose for a photo on Thursday in Washington ahead of a screening of their documentary Linsanity, about the legendary NBA player Jeremy Lin's road to stardom. The documentary, which has been screened in several film festivals including the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, will hit theaters across the US in September. Chen Weihua / China Daily |
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Washington: Writers rap From left: John Delury, assistant professor of East Asian studies at South Korea's Yonsei University; Orville Schell, director of the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York; and Edward McCord, associate professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University. They had just given a talk on Wednesday about the historical roots of China's rise. The talk was based on the new book Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the 21st Century, by Schell and Delury. Chen Weihua / China Daily |
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Washington: NGO focus Shawn Shieh (center), head of the Beijingbased publication China Development Brief, speaks to an audience member on Thursday at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. Shieh spoke about the increasing advocacy of grass-roots organizations in Chinese civil society. At right is J. Stapleton Roy, a former US ambassador to China who directs the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute on China and the United States. Sun Chenbei / China Daily |
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Rockville, Maryland: Step lively Dancers from the Li ethnic group of China's Hainan province, perform a bamboo dance on July 10, during a tour organized by the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. Sun Diantao / For China Daily |
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Silver Spring, Maryland: Solid backing Delegate Susan Lee (with microphone), Maryland's only Chinese-American legislator, endorses Clarence Lam (second from left), a Chinese-American physician who is running for a seat in the state's House of Delegates, at a recent campaign event. Joining them are Delegates Aruna Miller (left) and Dan Morhaim. Provided To China Daily |
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New York: Artscape A man takes a break on Manhattan's Broadway next to a piece of public art by Xin Song. The artist has teamed up with the Fashion Center Business Improvement District to display his work, The Five Elements, inspired by the Eastern philosophical notion that the world, and everything in it, is made of water, fire, wood, metal and earth. Song's photo collages were unveiled this month and will run through Aug 30, also in midtown Manhattan. Caroline Berg / China Daily |
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San Francisco: Aftershock Zhang Yuan, who was a passenger aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214 with her husband and their 12-year-old daughter as well as her brother's family, is interviewed last week about the July 6 crash. Zhang said she is concerned about financial hardship for victims of the crash. Chen Jia / China Daily |
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New York: High cotton Liu Hua (left), general counsel for China National Cotton Reserves Corp, answers questions about Chinese cotton production during an industry conference on Monday as Tim Barry, vice-president of ICE Futures US, looks on. A new international cotton contract is in the works. Caroline Berg / China Daily |
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Los Angeles: Branching out South Coast Plaza General Manager Anton Segerstrom (left) and restaurateurs Joanne and Frank Yang gather on Monday to announce that the couple's Din Tai Fung will open at the mall in spring 2014. Din Tai Fung, a Chinese restaurant chain that originated in Taiwan, currently has more than 80 locations worldwide. Wang Jun / China Daily |
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San Jose, California: Pitch counts Victor Wang (second from right) of Hanhai Investment Group discusses tech startups with a Silicon Valley innovator at the Chunhui Cup for Innovation convention on July 9. Zhang Qidong / China Daily |
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Redmond, Washington: For art's sake Microsoft Inc's campus was the site of a panel discussion on Wednesday about efforts to protect and preserve China's ancient Dunhuang grottoes. Panelists included Wang Xudong (far left), executive director of Dunhuang Academy; Mimi Gardner Gates (center), director emeritus of the Seattle Art Museum and chairwoman of the Dunhuang Foundation; and Hsiao-Wuen Hon (far right), managing director of Microsoft Research Asia. Deng Yu / China Daily |
(China Daily USA 07/19/2013 page12)
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