Events

Updated: 2013-05-10 07:35

(China Daily)

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Conferences & Meetings \>\> In China

Bakery China 2013, Shanghai

Representing the entire range of products and services offered by the baking industry, including handcrafted bread, cakes and pastries, as well as large-scale production with state-of-the-art machinery, the fair offers first-hand information on current trends, methods and technologies.

Date: May 20-22

Venue: Shanghai New International Expo Centre

Website: www.cnbakery.com

SIWS Expo 2013, Shanghai

An international wine event where exhibitors can meet with distributors, agents, importers, wholesalers, retailers and potential business partners.

Date: May 23-25

Venue: Shanghai Mart Exhibition

Website: www.globalwine.com.cn

Dive China 2013, Guangzhou

With 400 booths spread over an area of 8,000 square meters, Dive China 2013 will be double the size of last year. Pavilions will be set up to showcase dive equipment, accessories, resorts, clubs, foreign trade and more. There will also be an underwater photography competition, dive films, forums and lectures during the fair.

Date: May 10-12

Venue: China Import & Export Fair Pazhou Complex

Website: www.chinadiveshow.com

The 8th International China Pharmaceutical R&D Summit, Shanghai

This event focuses on changes in and the impact of the political environment, and the latest scientific innovations and advances, as well as providing invaluable networking opportunities.

Date: May 20-23

Venue: Grand Hyatt Shanghai

Website: www.chinapharmard.com

Conferences & Meetings \>\> In the US

China's Investment Surge in Silicon Valley, San Jose

Silicon Valley's dynamic high-tech market attracts many Chinese firms and investors as they expand their businesses overseas. Experts and business leaders will explore the latest trends emerging from Chinese investment in Silicon Valley.

Date: May 23

Venue: San Jose Hilton

Website: asiasociety.org

3rd Annual US-CHINA PHARMA, Boston

This conference focuses on how to adapt to China's new healthcare system with strategies on maintaining profitable long-term growth. Topics under discussion will include intellectual property, brand marketing, and generic and bio-similar products.

Date: May 20-21

Venue: TBD

Website: www.chinamdpartnership.com

Culture \>\> In China

Azure Ray 2013 China Tour, Beijing

See American pop duo Azure Ray in Beijing. The duo consists of Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink who met at the age of 15 at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. They previously fronted a band called Little Red Rocket, often compared to Veruca Salt, in their hometown of Birmingham, Alabama.

Date: May 21

Venue: Zhangzizhong road 3-2

Website: weliveinbeijing.com

The Last Will, Wuzhen

Tony Award nominee Austin Pendleton stars as Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare in the off-Broadway premiere of Robert Brustein's The Last Will. The play has been invited to the first-ever Wuzhen International Theater Festival.

Date: May 15-18

Venue: Ancient Courtyard Theater

Website: www.damai.cn

Culture \>\> In the US

Modern Chinese Language, Houston

As Chinese becomes a more desired means of communication for business, it has also become popular in the performing and visual arts communities. This workshop will examine the language's usage around the world, the development of Mandarin Romanization, and common challenges in translation between Chinese and English. It will be of interest to anyone intrigued by Chinese culture.

Date: May 16

Venue: 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston

Website: asiasociety.org

Front Row: Chinese American Designers, New York

Guest-curated by designer Mary Ping, the show will demonstrate the unique visions of 16 Chinese-American designers, showing the origins of their careers and development of signature styles, as well as their relationship to the concepts of New York and Asia.

Date: April 26-Sept 29

Venue: The Museum of Chinese in America

Website: www.feedage.com

Diplomatic pouch

China's new ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, attended the opening session of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Committee of 100 late last month and spoke on China-US relations. Chairman of the Committee of 100 Dominic Ng and more than 200 guests attended the event.

Cui commended the committee's efforts and contribution in promoting friendship and cooperation between the two countries. He pointed out that over the past 34 years since China and the US established diplomatic ties, relations have made remarkable progress despite "twists and turns". He urged news media to provide more objective, accurate and balanced reports on China and China-US relations, in order to create a favorable atmosphere and promote a stable and healthy China-US relationship.

Richard Foristel, director of Webster University in China, recently marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with a lecture-discussion at the Shanghai consulate, laying out the contemporary significance of that historical document. Foristel outlined the issues, laws and actions leading up to the Civil War in 1861. He described manifest destiny, the profitability of slavery in the southern agricultural economy, the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the secession of the southern states among other developments. He ended the talk by saying that 150 subsequent years of citizen action, political and legislative change, civil rights marches and protests have moved the US closer to being the kind of equitable society we seek.

China's deputy consul-general for San Francisco, Bi Gang, recently visited the campuses of the University of Alaska located at Fairbanks and Anchorage. During the meeting with the chancellors as well as other administrators of the two universities, Bi exchanged views on promoting educational exchanges and cooperation between universities in China and the University of Alaska. He explored the possibilities of promoting student mobility, faculty exchanges, as well as joint educational programs. Bi also met with Chinese students and faculty studying and teaching at the two universities, and concluded his visit by meeting members of the staff of the Confucius Institute in the University of Alaska in Anchorage.

Send embassy and consulate news to michaelpeters@chinadaily.com.cn.

(China Daily 05/10/2013 page23)

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