Conferences & Meetings \>\> In China

International Conference on Frontiers of Manufacturing Science and Measuring Technology, Xi'an

The conference aims to promote measuring and manufacturing science, strengthening international academic cooperation and communications, and exchanging research ideas.

Date: June 12-13

Venue: Selected places

Website: http://www.icfmm.org

World CSP Asia Forum, Beijing

A platform for addressing key challenges and strategies faced by the concentrated solar power industry. It is geared toward decision makers from the solar industry across the region.

Date: June 18-21

Venue: China World Hotel

Website: http://www.cspasia.org

Semiconductor Asia, Shanghai

The conference offers a venue for executives from semiconductor equipment and material suppliers to meet key decision makers from semiconductor manufacturers.

Date: June 20-21

Venue: Marriott Hongqiao, 2270 Hongqiao Road

Website: http://www.cdmc.org.cn/sa2012

Offshore Investment Conference, Shanghai

It aims to reveal the abundance of opportunities in the jurisdiction and offer navigation of the multiplicity and complexity of legal and business issues associated with tax, cross-jurisdictional family planning, offshore and onshore structures, wealth succession, philanthropy and personal affairs.

Date: June 20-21

Venue: Pudong Shangri-La

Website: http://www.offshoreinvestment.com

International Conference on e-Learning, Hong Kong

The conference brings together people with different perspectives, experiences and knowledge in one location. It helps practitioners find ways of putting research into practice and researchers to gain an understanding of real-world problems, needs and aspirations.

Date: June 21-22

Venue: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Website: http://academic-conferences.org/icel/icel2012/icel12-home.htm

Conferences & Meetings \>\> In the US

Investing in China's Healthcare Boom, San Francisco

The Asia Society is bringing leading executives and experts in the healthcare industry from the US and China to explore the opportunities and challenges that foreign investors face in China's burgeoning healthcare market.

Date: May 16

Venue: Asia Society Northern California

Website: http://asiasociety.org

China Airborne, New York

China's aerospace industry is growing by leaps and bounds, backed by an ambitious government commitment. China Airborne: The Dream of Aviation in Emerging China is journalist James Fallows' account of his travels around China, not only by scheduled but also by private planes, meeting the entrepreneurs, engineers, workers, dreamers and hucksters for whom the sky's the limit in China's latest commercial venture.

Date: May 22

Venue: 725 Park Avenue

Website: http://asiasociety.org

Culture \>\> In China

The University of Michigan Men's Glee Club

The club is considered one of the oldest collegiate choruses in the United States and the oldest running student organization on the Michigan campus. Long acclaimed as one of the finest male choruses in the world, the Glee Club has achieved this stature by sustaining and respecting the traditions that have been established during its 152-year history.

Date: Till May 13

Venue: Selected cities

Website: http://ummgc.org

Imani Winds, Beijing

The American group is enriching the traditional wind quintet repertoire while bridging European, American, African and Latin American traditions.

Date: May 17

Venue: Multi-functional Theater of National Center for the Performing Arts

Website: http://www.theatrebeijing.com

Culture \>\> In US

Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts, New York

Signing of the book Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts. It examines the coalescing of the two major architectural systems, placing significant shifts in architectural theory and practice in China within relevant, contemporary, cultural and educational contexts.

Date: May 15

Venue: China Institute

Website: http://www.chinainstitute.org

Diplomatic pouch

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong last week hailed the importance of people-to-people engagement during the third annual US-China Consultation on People-to-People Exchange at the National Museum in Beijing. The CPE aims to enhance and strengthen ties between the people of the United States and China in the areas of education, science and technology, sports, culture and women's issues.

"Chinese students can read books about the United States or watch movies from Hollywood," Clinton said, but in-person contact is critical to "get a better feel for who we are as a people".

"And the same goes for American students," she said. "They are yearning to learn more about China, and you cannot learn that from a textbook. You learn it from sitting across a table, having a discussion, sharing a meal, learning a language. There is nothing that substitutes for being in each other's countries.

The two governments agreed to increase support for the bi-national US-China Fulbright Program, double the new Fulbright MA Program for Chinese students, triple Fulbright Critical Language Enhancement Awards for American Fulbrighters to study Chinese, and welcome the first US Distinguished Chair for a highly qualified American professor to teach in China this fall.

Clinton announced that the Ford Foundation will also independently provide $1 million in seed funding to support a private non-profit program that will promote and perpetuate the goals of 100,000 Strong, President Barack Obama's campaign to increase the number of US students studying in China. She also urged members of Historically Black Colleges and Universities to double the number of their students who study in China.

Song Ruan, China's acting consul general for San Francisco, hosted a welcome reception for "Fusion of Mongolia and Hollywood" performing tours in Northern California. The American Universal Culture Heritage Development Foundation, Hollywood Troupe USA, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Wulanmuqi Performing Arts Group and some local organizers were invited.

Song said Inner Mongolia established sister province/state relations with California in 2000, and cultural exchange has been one of the most dynamic areas among their collaborations.

China Daily

(China Daily 05/11/2012 page23)