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SHORTLIST
 

2009
 

Big Ben Award
 

Ten Outstanding Chinese Young

 Persons Selection in the UK

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The judging and public voting period runs from 12th March 2009 until 10 April 2009. Final results will be decided by the committee based on a combination of judge panel recommendations and public votes. Please download your voting form HERE).

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The Shortlist persons (totally 28 people) are listed by the  stroke order of the Traditional Chinese surname characters:

丁俊暉 DING Junhui (No. 1)、王健Jian Jim WANG (No. 2)、
成德仁 Daniel SHING(No. 3)、朱寒柏 Hanbo ZHU (No. 4)、
何雪怡  Jo HO (No. 5)、李超 Chao LI (No. 6)、
孟明毅 George MENG (No. 7)、
林豐 Fung LAM (No. 8)、吳豔梅 Yanmei WU (No. 9)、
柳琪妍 Liz Chi Yen LIEW (No. 10)、
孫繼海 SUN Jihai (No. 11)、
華天 Alex Tian Noble HUA (No. 12)、
梁佩詩 Katie Liu LEUNG (No. 13)、
陳美 Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn NICHOLSON (No. 14)、
陳佳峰  Jiafeng CHEN (No. 15)、
智升科  Shengke ZHI (No. 16)、
傅家俊 Marco FU (No. 17)、
湯唯 Wei TANG (No. 18)、
黃瀞億 Ching-He HUANG  (No. 19)、
古克•溫 Gok WAN (No. 20)、 劉桓 Huan LIU (No. 21)、
廖錦揚 Daniel Jacoel (No. 22)、
鄭智 Zhi ZZ ZHENG (No. 23)、
薄瓜瓜 Guagua BO (No. 24)、
薩頂頂 Dingding SA (No. 25)、範鐵 Tie FAN (No. 26)、
謝麗莎 Lisa Tse (No. 27)、
艾裏珊•鐘 Alexa CHUNG  (No. 28)

TWO STROKES

DING Junhui 丁俊暉：Male, 22. Ding is a Chinese snooker player, born in Yixing, Jiangsu, and is now a resident of England during the snooker season. A prolific break-builder when on form, it took him only five seasons to compile a century of centuries, a record he shares with Ronnie O'Sullivan. Ding started playing snooker at the age of nine, when his father took him to the Chinese national team training centre near Shanghai. His father persuaded his mother to sell their house in order for Ding to continue playing snooker as a career. In 2003, he became the number one ranked player in China.

Ding shot to international prominence in 2002, when he won the Asian Under-21 Championship, the Asian Championship and the IBSF World Under-21 Championship. He was unable to progress much in 2003, as both the Asian Championship and Under-21 Championship had to be cancelled because of the SARS virus crisis, but he was a semi-finalist in the IBSF World Under-21 championship, and was awarded a Main Tour concession by the WPBSA, which enabled him to turn professional in September 2003.

In February 2004, Ding was awarded a wildcard entry to the Masters in London, where, in the first round, he defeated the then world no. 16-ranked player, Joe Perry, before narrowly losing 6-5 in the second round to experienced top player Stephen Lee after holding a 2-5 lead over him. His performance favourably impressed many commentators, who since then rated him a likely future World Champion.

In March 2005, he celebrated his 18th birthday by reaching the final of the China Open in Beijing, along the way defeating world top-16 ranked players Peter Ebdon, Marco Fu and Ken Doherty. In that final he played against then world no.-3-ranked Stephen Hendry, whom he beat by 9 frames to 5, to score his first ranking tournament win.

In December 2005, he beat another crop of world top-16 players, namely Jimmy White, the late Paul Hunter and Joe Perry once more on his way to reaching the final of another major tournament, the UK Championship at the Barbican Centre in York. This time he met the resurgent snooker legend Steve Davis, and defeated him by ten frames to six, in doing so becoming the first player from outside Britain or Ireland to win that particular title. Following this victory, his world ranking was provisionally raised from 60 (62 at the start of the season) to 31. At the end of the season, he was ranked 27th.

He got the Gold 2006 Doha for Individual, Doubles, and Team. In the 2006 China Open he gave his home crowd a good run for their money, but lost 6-2 to eventual winner Mark J. Williams in the semi-finals.

On 19 August 2006, he beat Stephen Lee 6-1, and reached the final of the Northern Ireland Trophy, meeting Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final the following day. He beat O'Sullivan 9-6 to claim his third ranking tournament win, becoming only the third person ever to do so before his twentieth birthday, after O'Sullivan and John Higgins. This win pushed his provisional world ranking position up to fifth.

In December 2006, he won three gold medals at the Asian Games, winning the Single, Double and Team Snooker competitions. The following week, he reached, as the defending champion, the quarterfinal stage of the 2006 UK Snooker Championship, and subsequently lost to his practice partner and eventual winner, Peter Ebdon, by 9 frames to 5.

On 1 January 2007, he narrowly defeated Cao Xinlong 5-4 to reach the final of the Chinese National Snooker Championship in East China's Yixing, Jiangsu province, his home town. The following day, he beat Xiao Guodong in the final by 6 frames to 2, in doing so becoming the national champion once again.

On 14 January 2007, Ding made a 147 break in the opening match of the Saga Insurance Masters against Anthony Hamilton. It was the first maximum in the competition since that of Kirk Stevens in 1984, which was also the only one up to then. Additionally, Ding is the youngest player to make a 147 during a televised session (a record previously held by Ronnie O'Sullivan), and became the first Chinese snooker player in the history of BBC's coverage to make a televised maximum. He went on to make the final of the tournament, becoming the second youngest player to reach a Masters final. In it he made a confident start by winning the first two frames. However, O'Sullivan went on to produce what many regard as one of the finest displays of snooker ever seen on television. His dominance, along with the boisterous and hostile nature of the crowd, left Ding in tears during the twelfth frame, trailing 8-3 in the best of 19 frames contest. The latter appeared resigned to defeat, taking little time to consider his shot selection, and after the frame shook hands with O'Sullivan, after which the two walked arm in arm to the dressing room area, but because it had only been the last frame before the mid-session interval, and so indeed not the very last frame of the match, no-one knew if he had conceded the match, believed the match was over or was just congratulating O'Sullivan on his formidable play. He ultimately lost the match on the next frame, and later claimed that he thought the match was indeed a "best of 17".

He was next bumped out of two tournaments in a row in the first rounds, losing 5-2 to Stephen Maguire in the Malta Cup and 5-1 to Jamie Cope in the Welsh Open. By 14 March 2007, however, Ding had qualified for the televised final stages of the World Championships for the first time by beating Mark Davis in the final qualifying round. However, his losing streak in ranking tournaments that season continued with a 5-3 first round loss to Barry Hawkins in the China Open and a 10-2 loss against Ronnie O'Sullivan in the World Snooker Championship, but he still ended the season ranked in ninth place, his highest ever ranking.

In September 2007, he joined other top snooker players and other stars from film, sport, television and music at inter-dealer broker BGC's 3rd Annual Charity Day to help raise funds for a number of charities.

The following season was consistent, reaching the last 16 of all but one ranking event, but he failed to reach a single semi-final, causing him to slip down two places, to number 11 in the world rankings. At the Crucible he managed to reach the second round for the first time, beating Marco Fu 10-9 in a high quality match, but he was unable to progress further, going down 13-7 to Stephen Hendry.

However, he started the next season on a high by winning the Jiangsu Classic, beating Mark Selby 6-5 in the final.

On the 16th of December in his Second Round match against John Higgins at the UK Championship, Ding scored a maximum 147 break in the third frame of the match.

Currently, Ding Junhui holds the record for the most unanswered points (495) in any snooker tournament. This was during the Betfred Premier League against Stephen Hendry.

FOUR STROKES

Jian Jim WANG 王健：Male, 29. After graduated from University College London, Jim Wang works for different I.T companies in the UK. Currently he is working for a UK consultancy company as a senior technical architect.

As a highly proficient IT engineer and consultant, Jim focuses on IT Business Solutions, especially in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system and its integration with other Business Intelligent (BI)
system. Jim has been awarded two distinct certificates in the IT industry:

1) Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.) Jim is one of the 31 Microsoft CRM MVPs in the world; Jim is the only Chinese MVP in the UK.

2) British Computer Society Chartered IT Professional (BCS CITP is a professional credential that demonstrates both competence and a commitment to keep pace with advancing knowledge and the increasing expectations and requirements of the profession. CITP is the hallmark of a true IT professional. Achieving Chartered IT Professional status demonstrates that you practise the highest professional information technology standards.)

Except for the self-development, Jim also likes to help other junior ITers to design their career path, give advice to them and discuss the IT and Business.

Jim likes to share his knowledge to other people and hope to see every Chinese in the UK have a brilliant and designable future.

SIX STROKES

成德仁 Daniel SHING ：Male, 26. Shing is a British Born Chinese citizen from Eastbourne, East Sussex. He is the middle of 3 siblings to parents Stephen and Oi Lin Shing, both caterers who emigrated to Britain over 30 years ago. Daniel is privileged to be Britain’s youngest Chinese Councillor, holding two seats, both as a Parish Councillor and a District Councillor, independent of any political party.

At 14 years old, Daniel first became involved in politics when his father, Stephen Shing, became a candidate for Parish Councillor in a local by-election. During the by-election campaign, Daniel first gained experience of local politics by supporting and campaigning with his father in 1997. After was successfully elected, Daniel became involved with his father’s political life, exposing him to very unique experiences in helping members of the local community and understanding how democracy worked.

Throughout the many years in helping his father with case work and subsequent elections to the District and County Council, Daniel became more and more interested in becoming a Councillor himself and decided that one day he would aspire to follow in his father’s footsteps and stand for election in the near future.

Whilst at Kingston University, Daniel continued to assist his father when he returned to Eastbourne on the weekends and work in the family take-away. Through his continued exposure to local politics, Daniel realised that knowledge and problem solving were important skills in succeeding as a local councillor. This belief led Daniel to understand the importance of governance in Local Authorities and the Legislation, also, many Councillors and Politicians had either studied Law or were qualified as lawyers.

Upon graduating in Computing with Business Management in 2004, Daniel still had Law and Politics on his mind and began his career change by taking the Graduate Diploma in Law at Kingston University. At the same time, the Country was preparing for General and County Council elections. At the age of 21, Daniel stood for the first time as a Candidate in any election and uniquely ran a father and son campaign. During the election period, Daniel divided his time between campaigning as a Candidate during his occasional days off from university and during the weekends whilst preparing for his upcoming final Law exams as a full time student.

Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat on East Sussex County Council in 2005, Daniel passed his Graduate Diploma in Law and continued to pursue his ambitions of becoming a Councillor and a qualified Solicitor. However, he decided not to take the Legal Practice Course straight away as felt he did not have sufficient work experience.

As a fresh graduate, the prospects of finding work in the legal market or a Training Contract (A Training Contract is akin to an apprenticeship in the legal profession for qualifying as a Solicitor) were slim and Daniel decided to overcome this by gaining experience in the legal field by undertaking unpaid work experience. By coincidence, Daniel would undertake work experience in East Sussex County Council’s legal department, the very Council that Daniel was not successfully elected to. Daniel was always aware that his work placement at East Sussex County Council could be construed as an act of nepotism, as Stephen was on the Council. Daniel’s hard work and sheer determination to succeed proved that he was very capable in his role.

Within a short space of time, the Legal Department at East Sussex County Council recognised Daniel’s potential and motivation and offered him a low-paid position as a Clerical Assistant. Over time, he worked his way up to a Paralegal position and was fortunate to be seconded to the Legal Department at Sussex Police headquarters.

After 6 months at Sussex Police, Daniel returned to East Sussex County Council and decided to start the Legal Practice Course in September 2006 at the College of Law in London, Bloomsbury. Leaving East Sussex County Council with a good understanding of Local Government Law, Daniel was sure that he would prefer to work in Local Government or in-house rather than private practice.

During his studies on the Legal Practice Course, Daniel was determined to pursue both ambitions of becoming a Councillor and a Solicitor and made would face biggest challenges in his life to date, and all at the same time. The Legal Practice Course is known by the legal community to be an intensive course for students. Whilst studying, Daniel undertook voluntary legal work by assisting in a community law centre on a weekly basis. In addition, he also continued to assist his father and produce newsletters to local residents campaigning for better facilities for the community and work part time in the family take-away over the weekend.

In Spring 2007, Daniel began preparing for his final exams on the Legal Practice Course and his election campaign with Stephen and Oi Lin as a family team. Their hard work paid off when Daniel was successfully elected on to Wealden District Council and Willingdon and Jevington Parish Council in May 2007 and completed the Legal Practice Course in June. In addition, Oi Lin was also elected as a District Councillor.

Daniel returned to East Sussex County Council in August 2007 as a Paralegal to gain more experience whilst looking for a Training Contract. After several interviews with different Local Authorities and private firms, Daniel began his 2 year training in a London Brought Council as a trainee solicitor and expects to qualify in March 2010. Working for a Local Authority whilst serving on another is a very big challenge and Daniel is often faced with the predicament of having to work long hours, sacrificing his personal time and social life to ensure that he meets his responsibilities as a Councillor and Lawyer, as both capacities are equally time consuming.

During his current tenure as a Councillor, he has served on the Planning Committee on Wealden District Council and the Recreation, Cemetery Committees on Willingdon and Jevington Parish Council. Daniel is keen to encourage more of the younger population to enter politics.
 

Hanbo ZHU 朱寒柏：Male, 27. After Hanbo Zhu completed my postgraduate degree in September 2006, he worked for the Institute of NanoTechnology (IoN) as a Project Manager and was in charge of the UK’s first nanoTechnology Transfer Centre (nanoTTC, also known as nano posts). NanoTTC is now the world’s No.1 online search engine tool and allows people to access the latest leading-edge research and development in nanoscience and nanotechnology. This project were completed under his management in June 2007.

The other role Hanbo had at IoN was Business Development Manger for nano China, which provides a bridge between the nanotechnology activities that are taking place in China and the rest of the world, with the aim of disseminating information and setting up nano-business and networking opportunities.

In July 2007, Hanbo left IoN and joined the Manorlane Group as an IT manger, with major roles of reporting to the CEO the role carries full responsibility for all IT issues within the business both in the headquarter and the sites .

During the work with IoN and Manorlane, he also worked as the part time Managing Director for Students United. In October 2008, he left Manorlane and worked full time for the Students United Limited, UK.

In December 2006, he won sponsorship from Stirling University Research & Enterprise and Students United became a UK based Chinese Limited Company due to business expansion. In February 2007, Students United represented the University of Stirling in the Scottish Institute of Enterprise (SIE) International Business Plan Competition. Their Chinese community project won the second prize among 260 national university teams. This award is not just a first for the University of Stirling but also for Chinese student. They were also awarded £9,000 from SIE and a free business start-up package from the University of Stirling. In the same year in May, Business Gateway offered them a free business start up training course and £1,000 business grant. PSYBT (The Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust) also offered them low interest loans and free business supports. With these sponsorships, Student United had a flying start and got in the right business track in the late 2007.


SEVEN STROKES

Chao LI 李超：Male, 32. On Feb 2008, a special report on Li Chao, the Chief Coach from another country, came conspicuously at the office website of Table Tennis Association Of Wales (TTAW). This is quite unusual.

Li Chao, TTAW’s Assistant National Coach until just over a year ago, has been appointed National Coach in Scotland. Jonathan Whitaker, Chairman of Table Tennis Scotland, said: “I am delighted to welcome Li Chao to Table Tennis Scotland as our new National Coach. Li joins us with excellent experience working in the UK, having had senior roles assisting both Wales and England. I would like to congratulate Li on his new role and wish him every success in what I am sure will be a long and fruitful relationship. Li's appointment provides an excellent opportunity for us to raise the profile of Scottish performances at International level. I hope you will join us in giving Li all the support he needs to excel in the role.”

Li Chao is very pleased with his new job: “I began with my new post about two months ago, I love my work and enjoy the table tennis environment here. For me, this new job is an opportunity as well as a challenge, now, I'm ready to accept this new challenge. Surely, I will give my best effort with team in Scotland, I believe, we will consistently deliver for higher performance!”

Meanwhile, on the official site of Table Tennis Association Of Scotland (TTAS) there is a similar coverage: “Chinese coach Li Chao has been appointed as Scotland's new full-time national coach. He takes up the job on January 1 and will be charged with attempting to take Scotland into the top eight in the Commonwealth.”

Li Chao has previously coached in England and Wales and brings an impressive coaching pedigree to Scotland. With athlete being individual, the coach, as an educator, however, has to lead a group to promote the development of competitive sports!

Nevertheless, Li Chao in his work is deadly serious and assiduous; but he also makes the training atmosphere more relaxed to encourage the aggressiveness of athletes.

Still a child, the 11-year-old boy has claimed Junior Team and Double Champions as well as the Third Prize of National Single. As he is gifted for coaching, he began his career as a coach at Sichuan Province Team after ending his professional athlete life when he was 23 years old. His first overseas coaching was in Qatar in the Middle East.

In 2001, Li Chao came to UK and worked for TTAW, who has been since then committed to promote the development of table tennis in UK, contributing his sweat and prime to this country.

In his early days at Wales, training level was quite unsatisfactory due to limited conditions. However, Li Chao combined several methods to provide customized training for the Wales Team so as to improve their overall level.

Painstaking efforts do pay off. In the table tennis match of The Commonwealth Games 2004 at Malaysia, the Wales Team came out from nowhere to take the silver medal of Men’s Double, making them the most surprising black horse since table tennis was included in The Commonwealth Games! The sixth place of Men’s Group and eighth place of Women’s Group also became the historic new height of Wales Team in the past century!

In 2007, Li Chao was transferred from the Wales Team to UK Team to help preparation for 2012 London Olympic Games. Meanwhile, he was also the coach for the National Team of England. During this period, he led the National Team of England to harvest 4 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 4 bronze medals at U21 European Championship, making another historical record.

Currently Li Chao is leading the National Team of Scotland to prepare for the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship in May 2009, as well as The Commonwealth Games 2014 at Glasgow.

After three months at work, Li Chao has been integrated in this working environment, making friends with the President, managers and athletes of TTAS. They are not only colleagues; more than that, friends. They trust, respect and confirm his competence and professionalism. Training enthusiasm here is unprecedentedly high, and even some athletes from other countries came to be trained at the National Team of Scotland at their own expenses, which is quite rare, too.

As for the future, Li Chao is confident and full of hope. In his diary he wrote: “Painstaking effort, No Fate!” Let us wish him a better tomorrow!


Jo HO 何雪怡：Female, 31. Jo Ho is British born Chinese, raised in Dagenham Essex. After studying art and gaining a degree in Multi Media, Jo realised her actual passion was for film and television. She gained various jobs in production for set experience, ranging from make-up artist to production manager until she felt brave enough to tackle writing.

Not able to afford film school, Jo put herself through her own ‘homestyle’ writing course by obsessively studying what she considered some of the best writing at the time, the TV series The West Wing. Shortly after, she wrote her first script, and gained her first original TV series commission from C4 for DIM SUM as well as an acclaimed producer, Ken Trodd, known for his work with the late Dennis Potter.

Jo was profiled in CREATION magazine in the August 2000 edition as a 'young, driven and fanatically hardworking woman'.


Jo completed her first short film, ISOLATION 9 in the summer of 2006, as writer, producer and director. ISOLATION 9 has now been picked up by The British Council for representation, and won the festival award at the Buffalo Black & Asian Short Film Festival.

Her second film, MONKEY NUT TALES, shot just three months after, is a live action mixed with animation and cgi short, and has just been screened at the London Film Festival, and also in Shanghai and Beijing. MONKEY NUT TALES wrapped in Dec and is funded by UK Film Council/Film London's 2006 PULSE scheme and has been picked up for representation by Dazzle, the UK’s number one independent short film distributors.

Jo was recently selected for PYGMALION, a European Development lab and taken to Berlin and Amsterdam, to work on her children's fantasy feature film based on Chinese ideals and mythology called THE JOURNEY OF LITTLE STAR. In the same year, she was also taken to Hollywood to meet with and participate in, master classes of some of the world’s finest film practitioners.

She is currently in pre-production with CBBC for her original live action/animation fantasy TV series, BO AND THE SPIRIT WORLD which will begin shooting in April ’09. She is also working on a supernatural feature called BLOODLINES and further television series ideas.

In addition to her Western projects, it is one of Jo’s aims to make films that show real representation of the modern Chinese experience whilst combining this with western story-telling techniques. She also hopes to encourage more females into the film and TV industry, and especially those from an ethnic minority background.

Jo is a judge on the BBC’s Writersroom development scheme ‘BBC Bites’, a new scheme targeted at finding and developing new British Chinese writers and their voices. Jo is the first Chinese person to create and write a British TV series. Jo is a member of BAFTA and repped by The Dench Arnold Agency.

EIGHT STROKES

George MENG 孟明毅：Male, 23. George Meng currently works in Nomura International’s European Investment Banking Division (former Lehman Brothers). George came to the UK in 2002 as an international student, studied A-levels at Bradfield College and undergraduate degree at London School of Economics on a full scholarship. After graduating from LSE with top academic results, he joined Lehman Brothers’ Investment Banking Division in London. Besides achieving outstanding results in his academic studies, he is actively involved in many student and social activities and organized a large number of events. 
 
During his 2 years at Bradfield College, he was awarded six times by the school (for both academic achievements and contributions) and became Bradfield’s first ever Chinese overseas student prefect in his second year. Graduated with exceptional academic results, he joined LSE in 2004 to advance his study in economics, and received a 3-year full scholarship from the Chear Charitable Trust. This is the only full scholarship this institution has ever granted to an undergraduate student. He got his second university scholarship in 2006 from Lehman Brothers (VISION Scholarship), and became the first VISION scholar from China. During his study at LSE, he was given two top academic awards by the school in 2006 and 2007 consecutively. He graduated in 2007 with eight first classes out of a total of nine courses studied.  
 
Being the overseas student prefect at Bradfield College, George arranged many cultural events for his school, including organising “China Night” together with students from Taiwan. After joining LSE, he remained deeply devoted to student activities. He was the Vice President of LSE China Development Society and was elected as Chairman in the following year. His team organized many large-scale academic and cultural events around the campus, including lectures on China’s economic development and reform, “China Week” academic festival, Chinese cultural events, EU-China Trade & Investment Conference and etc. These events successfully raised western scholars’ awareness of China’s cultural and economic changes, and enhanced communication between Chinese and western academic circles in one of the world’s highest ranked economic schools. Apart from these, he was also an active member of UK Chinese Students & Scholars Association, a high profile organization formed by Chinese students living in Britain. In 2007, he was elected to be a member of CSSA’s standing committee as the representative of Greater London district.  
 
As the only Chinese participant, he competed in LSE’s Student Union election for the role of International Student Officer in 2006. Although he finally lost the race with a marginal 620:640 result, many saw it as a success, since his actions significantly raised Chinese students’ awareness of Student Union activities and changed the view of many on the ability of Chinese students.  
 
Besides student activities, he is also actively involved in organising business & social events which aim to create closer links between China and the UK. In October 2005, He arranged the EU-China Trade & Investment Conference in London and was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the Organizing Committee. They successfully invited many heavy weights from China and Britain’s business circles, including Chairman / CEO of China National Real Estate Development Group (the largest real estate developer in China), CEO of Beijing Enterprise Holdings, Chairman of British Chamber of Commerce, Vice President of Think London and etc. This successful event facilitated the communication between Chinese and British businesses, and laid the foundation for many of the following commercial co-operations between Chinese and British businesses. Apart from this, he is the youngest member of Western Returned Scholars Association (WRSA) and WRSA Chamber of Commerce, two highly influential Chinese organizations formed by current & former overseas students and scholars. He attended WRSA’s 2008 Annual Meeting as the representative of Chinese overseas students in the UK.  
 
His story was covered by the “Chinese World” magazine in 2006.  
 
After graduation, he joined Lehman Brothers’ European Investment Banking Division as an analyst. He received three “Big Deal Awards” during his two year at the company, and witnessed the unfolding of global financial crisis on the front line. He focused a lot on Chinese businesses in his job, and actively pushed for greater commercial interactions and investment activities between China and Britain. Recently he was involved in originating and executing Chinalco’s $19.5bn strategic investment in Rio Tinto, which marked the largest overseas investment that has ever been done by a Chinese company. This transaction leads a key adjustment in China’s overseas investment strategy, broadens China’s reach in global natural resources, and effectively alleviated the impact of the global financial tsunami on relevant industries.  
 
He actively utilises his financial knowledge and skillset to contribute to China’s financial innovations. He was involved in the planned launch of several new financial tools in China including Reverse Mortgage and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT). These proposals have all been approbated and supported by the State Council: Premier Wen Jiabao has twice emphasized the importance of encouraging the use of Reserve Mortgage for the well-being of the elder community, and they are now in the process of developing feasible product structures; in recent months, the State Council has issue two papers requiring local governments to “conduct experimental projects on REIT, broaden direct financing channels”. Experimental projects have already been carried out in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin. It is believed that the introduction and development of these financial innovations will be a powerful push to boost China’s domestic demand, sustain its economic growth and realize its goal of constructing a harmonious society.



Fung LAM 林豐：Male 29. Fung Lam has been studying and working in UK for the last 12 years, since he first came over from Hong Kong at the age of 16. During this period he has been working hard to achieve excellence academically as well as exploring ways to fuse Chinese and Western culture through the power of arts. His area of expertise is music, or more specifically, music composition.

He started his musical education at the age of 6, learning piano, before subsequently taking up his major instrument cello 4 years later. By the time he was 14, he had already obtained both Advanced Certificate in Cello and Grade 8 in Music Theory (ABRSM). It was not, however, until after he came to UK that he wrote his first piece of music. During his time as an undergraduate music student at the Southampton University, he had the chance to further develop this area and gradually shifted his main focus onto composition. After graduating with First Class Honours, he was awarded a studentship by the university to pursue my master’s degree in music composition with the renowned British composer Michael Finnissy.

In his music, he always seeks to create something new, original and personal, while also acknowledging my Chinese heritage. He is interested in the integration of Eastern and Western concepts. Indeed, the recurring theme of almost all his serious music is the concept of spiritual enlightenment in Buddhism.

He produced two core works during my master’s degree - Inner Light for orchestra and Amitabha for chamber ensemble. One year after the first performance of Inner Light, it led me to my professional debut as a composer with a performance at the opening concert of the Asian Music Festival in Japan in 2003 by the world famous Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. It was the first of three times he represented Hong Kong/China at this prestigious Asian Music Festival. Amitabha, first performed in Australia, was presented at the Asian Music Festival in Israel in 2004. Unlike many contemporary pieces by other composers, both pieces enjoyed many repeated performances in UK as well as abroad.

In 2005, it saw another significant development in his composition career. His second major orchestral piece Illumination was premiered by the world-class BBC Philharmonic with the top British composer/conductor James MacMillan. The concert in Manchester was recorded, and his piece has subsequently been broadcast three times on BBC Radio 3. Illumination has since been performed professionally by both the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (at the Asian Music Festival 2007) and Hong Kong Sinfonietta with Chinese conductors Li Xin-Cao and Yip Wing-Sie respectively.

He also collaborated with the BBC Concert Orchestra for the first time in 2005, with an orchestration of a song by the Icelandic band Sigur Ros. It was the beginning of a fruitful relationship as he has since worked with the BBC Concert Orchestra five more times.

In summer 2006, he was commissioned to write music for an interactive sound installation by the Philharmonia Orchestra. It was presented to the general public for a week at the South Bank Centre.

His next major breakthrough came in 2007, in the form of a substantial orchestral commission from the BBC Radio 3. For a young person in arts, being commissioned is a solid indication of one’s artistic quality being valued and approved. Furthermore, the BBC is not just an average organisation. It is not only UK’s but the world’s most significant commissioner of new music. He was delighted to have been commissioned by such respected British establishment, not least a commission for orchestra which is more prestigious than say one for small ensemble. He also found out that, with this commission, he became not only the first Hong Kong composer but also the youngest Chinese composer ever to have received a commission from the BBC. In fact, they have only ever commissioned new works from a handful of Chinese composers from the first post-Cultural Revolution generation such as Chen Yi, Zhou Long and Oscar winner Tan Dun, who are all based in USA. It is also worth noting that, he was the first composer (regardless of nationality or age) BBC Radio 3 has commissioned a new work from specifically for their long-established programme Discovering Music. The 23-minute work, entitled Unlocking, was premiered and recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra with the celebrated conductor Charles Hazlewood in May 2008.

His second BBC commission soon followed in late 2008. He was one of the 12 composers commissioned to write a short orchestral piece, again for the BBC Concert Orchestra. He was the only Chinese composer invited for this project, alongside other world-famous musicians such as the pop group Pet Shop Boys and Oscar winner film composer Anne Dudley. The work, entitled BE, was premiered and recorded in February 2009 at the South Bank Centre.

He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and passion with the young people and community in Britain. He has been involved in two major education projects organised by the BBC Concert Orchestra, in which he worked with a large group of students from different schools. The project in 2006 was based around his orchestration of Sigur Ros’s song, involving a student band as well as a student chorus, while the project in 2008 was based entirely on his music and his creative ideas. The Discovering Music programme in 2009, which was broadcast worldwide, involved an extended interview with him introducing my music to the general audience prior to the performance.

Besides classical music, he has also been involved with several other music projects. In 2004, he collaborated with the Yellow Earth Theatre, a London based British East Asian theatre company, writing incidental music their production of the Japanese play Festival for the Fish. In 2005, he wrote theme music for a TV documentary series by the Radio Television Hong Kong. In 2006, he was the musical director for a pop concert at the inaugural BBC Electric Proms, working with an indie band from Northampton and musicians from the BBC Concert Orchestra. Most recently in 2008, he was commissioned to collaborate with the London-based Chinese music ensemble, Silk String Quartet, at an event entitled “Inspired by China”.

Above is only a collection of highlights from his composition career so far, but he hopes it shows that he has already achieved more than most other Chinese artists in Britain, regardless of age, and is slowly and steadily establishing himself well as one of the very few active and high-profile Chinese creative artists working in Britain today.


NINE STROKES

Yanmei WU 吳豔梅：Female, 28. Trained in dance and music from an early age, MeiMei (WU Yanmei) is an actress, dancer, singer and Chinese zither player who has since gone on to perform to international acclaim. Originally from Jiangsu province, China, MeiMei’s dance performances have been broadcast both on China Central Television (CCTV) and the BBC. In 2006 she gained her MMus in (East Asian) Music Performance from SOAS, University of London and was also selected by Theatre-Rites, a London based theatre company for children, to receive a bursary for black or minority ethnic visual artists and/or choreographers.

Theatre Credits include: ‘Jurong’ in the opera Confucius Says (Hackney Empire, London); ‘MeiMei’ in Lighten Up (Unicorn Theatre, London); ‘Master Yin/Lady Meng’ in The First Emporor (The British Museum), ‘Riko’ in Peace Pagoda Act 1 (Royal Opera House, London); and ‘Weaver Girl’ in Defying Fate (Tramway Theatre, Glasgow).

Media Coverage and Reviews include BBC1 News & BBC China, Time Out, SingTao News Europe, Times Educational Supplement, Edinburgh Evening News.


Liz Chi Yen LIEW 柳琪妍：Female, 31. Liz is a musician and composer. As one half of ‘double violin assault specialists’ Chi2 composes and performs a charismatic blend of 'east meets west' rhythms and melodies, blending Chinese instruments (liuqin, erhu, jinghu) with electric violins and beats.

In May 2008 they toured their exciting new show Monkey King – A Modern Beijing Opera a brand new spin on the classic Chinese tale, in the UK as part of CHINA NOW Festival and are planning another UK tour in Sept/October 2009.

Her writing credits include a co-write on Lamb's album 'Between Darkness and Wonder', music for Channel 4 documentary 'Birthday Girl' and Chi2's music has been used on BBC Radio 4 documentary 'Chinese in Britain', BBC1 news segment, short films and art installations.

She recently co-wrote and performed a live soundtrack to a classic Chinese film Song of the Fisherman at the Royal Opera House (Linbury Theatre) as Chi2 with Jiang Li and Kimho, commissioned by Chinatown Arts Space.

In June 2008 Liz and fellow composer/producer Tom E Morrison were commissioned by Greenwich and Docklands Festival to write a soundtrack to multi-disciplinary show Time is Like Water Flowing culminating in 7 shows at the O2 arena, also collaborating with French aerial acrobats Les Passengers, Beijing visual artist Yan Huang and visuals duo 8gg, in a poetic evocation of the four seasons. She has just released an album with her latest project LT Chi Sound System and is planning live shows. As a session musician she has toured/recorded with Moby, Lamb, Gnarls Barkley amongst others.


TEN STROKES

SUN Jihai 孫繼海：Male, 31. Sun Jihai is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Championship side Sheffield United as a defender and for the China national football team as a midfielder. Sun's main strengths are his speed, physical strength, crossing and attacking forays down the wings. He is a highly versatile player, having played as a central defender, a holding midfielder, and on both wings. Sun is one of the most important players in the Chinese national team.

Sun started his professional career with Dalian Wanda in 1995 and made his first appearance on May 28, 1995. Sun did not intend to start his professional career at such a young age. Like all the top young Chinese players of that generation, he wanted to go to the training camp in Brazil. However, he was not selected as he was not deemed to possess enough potential. Sun Jihai showed great character by not letting this huge disappointment derail him. He worked very hard and eventually enjoyed what is undoubtedly the most successful career of any Chinese football player.

After three successful years at Dalian, Sun along with Fan Zhiyi signed for Crystal Palace in 1998. They became the first footballers from China to play in the English leagues. Sun made his debut for Crystal Palace in a 0-3 defeat at Bury in the first leg of the Football League Cup match.

In 2002, Sun signed for Manchester City from Dalian for £2 million. He made his City debut in a 4-2 win over Coventry City. Sun Jihai enjoyed a great start to his first season in the Premier league. His solid defence and dangerous attacking forays won over many City fans. He was voted the best player at Manchester City for the month of September 2002. In October 2002, Sun became the first Chinese footballer to score in the Premier League when he headed home the first City goal in their 2-0 win over Birmingham City.


Alex Tian Noble HUA 華天：Male, 20. Alex Tian Noble HUA is an Olympic equestrian sportsman for China. He was born in London to a Chinese father and a British mother, and has a brother, called Jamie Hua Ming. Alex started riding aged four while living in Beijing and later Hong Kong. His family moved to Wiltshire when he was 11 and then to Horsham in West Sussex. He is the only Chinese event rider competing internationally. He qualified four horses for the Olympics between October 2007 and May 2008. Although as a host nation competitor he only needed to achieve a minimum standard, he qualified in his own right through the rankings as the youngest ever Olympic event rider. He is currently ranked 21st in the world.

Having achieved five A grades in his AS-levels, Alex has taken a year out of his studies at Eton to prepare for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He is being coached by the former world champion Clayton Fredericks and his wife Lucinda Fredericks, who won the Burghley Horse Trials 2006 and Badminton Horse Trials 2007, at their base in Wiltshire.


ELEVEN STROKES

Katie Liu LEUNG 梁佩詩：Female, 22. Katie Liu Leung is a Scottish actress, best known for playing Cho Chang, Harry Potter's love interest in the film versions of the J. K. Rowling novels Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. She is set to reprise the role in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince due out 17 July 2009.

Leung was born in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire to Peter who was a business man and a lawyer and Kar Wai Li Leung who was a neurologist. Her parents are now divorced, and she currently resides with her father (a native of Hong Kong), two brothers, and a sister. Leung has been named as Scotland's most stylish female and as the hottest Scotswoman by The Scotsman. She also been featured in Teen Vogue and even in Evening Standard.

Leung's father saw an advertisement for a casting call for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and suggested she try out. She waited for four hours in line for her five minute audition and said that she would rather be shopping than stand in a line with more than 4,500 girls in front of her for a role she was almost certain she wouldn't get. Two weeks later she was called for a workshop and was later offered the part of Cho. More than 4,500 other girls had been considered for the part, including actresses Courtney Webb and Michelle Ang. She stated in an interview with the Daily Record that her Scottish accent probably gave her an edge in the casting.

Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who plays Harry, said that Leung is "awesome" and a "really amazing actress". Her best friend on set was Bonnie Wright who plays Ginny Weasley in the films. Leung delayed plans to go to art college and university in order to film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In the film, Leung and Radcliffe share an on-screen kiss, a fact that received much media attention.

When asked whether she will be back for the sixth film, Leung responded, "I don't think so. Cho's mentioned briefly in the books, but they try to cram so much into the films that I don't think there'll be room for her." However, in an interview at the Order of the Phoenix DVD Launch in November 2007, she said she would be filming scenes for the film in January 2008.

In July 2007, Leung was cast by Gold Label Records, a subsidiary of EMI in Hong Kong, to be the female lead in the music video Love Coming Home by Leo Ku. Leung filmed the video in London while promoting the new Harry Potter film. Leo described Leung's acting as "professional" and "mature". She is also casted for the role of Hay Lin in W.I.T.C.H. The Movie based on the worldwide popular comic W.I.T.C.H..

Leung is signed up to play Hsui Tai in the episode "Cat Among the Pigeons" of ITV1's Agatha Christie's Poirot, alongside David Suchet, premiering on ITV, 21 September 2008.

She got the Best Kiss Award 2008 MTV Movie Awards U.S. (Alongside Daniel Radcliffe), 2007 Scotland's Most Stylish Female, 2006 Outstanding Newcomer Award (Top 4) and Young Scots Award.


Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn
NICHOLSON 陳美：Female, 30. Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, known professionally as Vanessa-Mae, is an internationally known British pop and classical musician, especially noted for her violin skills. Her music style is self-described as "violin techno-acoustic fusion," as several of her albums prominently feature the techno style.

Vanessa-Mae was born in Singapore to a Thai father (Varaprong Vanakorn) and a Chinese mother (Pamela Tan). After her parents separated, her mother married Englishman Graham Nicholson, and the family moved to England when Vanessa-Mae was four years old. She grew up in London and is a British citizen.

Vanessa-Mae coincidentally shares her birthday with famed violinist Niccolò Paganini, who was born 196 years earlier on October 27, 1782. Vanessa-Mae began playing piano at the age of three and violin at five.

She was particularly famous in the United Kingdom throughout her childhood making regular appearances on television (for example on Blue Peter) mostly involving classical music and conservative style. According to Guinness World Records, she is the youngest soloist to record both the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky violin concertos, a feat she accomplished at the age of thirteen. During this time she attended the Francis Holland School in central London.

Vanessa-Mae made her international professional debut at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany in 1988, and also during 1988 made her concerto debut on stage with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London.

On entering adolescence Vanessa-Mae broke away from her traditional classical influences and became known for her flashy, sexual style appearing in music videos in stylish outfits. She appeared on the Janet Jackson album The Velvet Rope playing a violin solo on the song "Velvet Rope." Her first pop-style album, The Violin Player, was released in 1995.

In April 2006, Vanessa-Mae was ranked as the wealthiest young entertainer under 30 in the UK in the Sunday Times Rich List 2006. having an estimated fortune of about £32 million ($64 million) stemming from concerts and record sales of over an estimated 10 million copies world wide, which is an unprecedented achievement for a young female violinist.

Vanessa-Mae announced in 2006 that she would be releasing a new album sometime between 2007 and 2008. The album was said to draw inspiration from great ballets and opera themes. Her new album is now scheduled to be released in 2009.

Vanessa-Mae most often uses one of two types of violins, a Guadagnini acoustic violin or a Zeta Jazz model electric violin. The Guadagnini was made in 1761, and was purchased by her parents at an auction for £150,000. It was stolen in January, 1995, but was recovered by the police two months later. She once fell and broke it, but it was repaired.

In addition, she uses one of two Zeta Jazz Model electric violins, one of which is white and the other one of which features decals of the U.S. flag. She has also been using a silver-gray Zeta Jazz Model electric violin since 2001. In addition to these two main violins, she sometimes buys violins and resells them later, giving the proceeds to charity. Occasional media appearances show her to be using a clear acrylic electric violin made by Ted Brewer.


Jiafeng CHEN 陳佳峰：Male, 22. Jiafeng Chen was born in Shanghai, China. He started studying the violin with Prof. Peter Shixiang Zhang at the age of 3. He entered the Primary School affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music to study with Prof. Jiyang Zhao in 1996 and was excellent in both character and learning. He then entered the Middle Music School affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with the highest mark in the country and studied with Prof. Lei Fang in 1999. In 2002, he continued to study at the High School without examinations. During those years he was awarded numerous awards, such as the "Fu Cheng Xian" Memorial Scholarship, “Tang” Scholarship and the Schoolmaster Prize and so on. In 2001 he won the 2nd Prize at the 7th National Violin Competition. He was selected to take part in the Morningstar Music Bridge in Canada and the Perlman Masterclass in Shanghai. In 2002 he travelled across the U.S.A to perform the famous Chinese Violin Concerto “The Butterfly Lovers” with school orchestra. He was also invited to give recitals at the Shanghai “Spring” International Music Festival for 2 years.

In 2004, he moved to Manchester to study with Prof. Jan Repko at the Chetham’s School of Music with a full scholarship. Not long after, he won the yearly concerto competition with the Sibelius Violin Concerto, and also he was awarded several awards from the Hattori Foundation and the Manoug Parikan Award of the Musicians Benevolent Fund String Award. Therefore he was invited to give a solo recital at the well-known Wigmore Hall in December, 2005.

In 2006, he went to study at the Royal College of Music with Prof. Jan Repko. He holds a Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship, which is a full scholarship to support his entire 4 years. He won the concerto competition at the college with the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.

In 2003, he won the Gold Medal at the 9th Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poland. This led to recognitions from a lot of distinguished figures in the musical world. In the competition he was also awarded the Special Prize of the European Union Music Competitions for Youth for an Excellent Performance at the International Competition and the only Special Prize from Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music. Immediately after, the newspapers, magazines and websites in China all reported the news because the last Gold Medal was won for Mainland China 18 years ago.

In 2005, he took part in the 9th Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition in Finland. The competition is held once every 5 years. The age limit is 30. The competition is widely accepted as one of the biggest three violin competitions in the world. Jiafeng Chen finally won the 2nd Prize. This is also the best record of China, and even Asia in that competition. This immediately led to accolades from the Finnish press and from such distinguished figures as Pierre Amoyal, Herman Krebbers and Tuomas Haapanen. It also led to engagements with the Tapiola Sinfonietta and Paavo Berglund, with the Vaasa City Orchestra, and a recital in Hameenlinna, as well as invitations to perform in Germany, the Netherlands, UK, South Africa and Italy.

In 2008, He won the Silver Medal at the 13th Menuhin International Violin Competition in Cardiff. The audiences felt aggrieved for him at the result, and they applauded for a long time to show their encouragement. Soon after, Jiafeng was invited to give a lot of solo concerts in Wales.

Not long after he moved to England in 2004. He joined the Chetham’s School of Music to give charity concerts for supporting the students who wished to take part in the Bowdoin International Music Festival in U.S.A.

Jiafeng gave concerts in different kinds of events which include the BBC proms cycle of 2006 as a soloist when his recital was broadcast on BBC radio 3; the Lake District Music Festival, the “Rising Star” Concert series of Royal College of Music at Cadogan Hall. He also gives concerts presenting the college to thank the college sponsors.

In 2006, he performed in an auction organized by the Dance & Umbrella Dance Company and raised 2,500 pounds. In June 2007, he took part in the British Red Cross Gala Ball “East Meets West” and performed “Tambourin Chinois”. The event raised 250,000 pounds.

In May 2008 after Jiafeng heard about the Earthquake in Sichuan, China he immediately donated 50 pounds to the Mercy Corps Charity. Then he realized the damage of the huge earthquake from the news on the internet, he decided to collect donations from performing and try his best to support the victims. Soon after, he started gathering information of the earthquake, opening an emergency bank account, planning fundraising concerts with friends, including dates, venues, concerts’ speech, special repertoire, piano accompanists and donation box etc. Everything comes to him who waits. The first concert went successfully and received good feedback from the audience. They loved the Chinese pieces, especially the “Song of Nostalgia” by Sicong Ma which the audience could really feel the nostalgia from the people who study abroad. A lot of the audiences listened to the concert with tears. Based on that, the further concerts all went very successfully. Jiafeng not only organized the concerts in London and Manchester etc, but also in Italy etc. After working hard for a few months, he collected 4,777.11 pounds. All the donations were brought back to China in December 2008 and they will be donated for the rebuilding projects on 28th February 2009 by Jiafeng’s parents in Shanghai.

In December 2008, he presented Royal College of Music again to perform in their yearly fundraising concert in V&A Museum and raised 15,000 pounds. In January 2009, he performed in an auction organized by English National Opera and raised 2,500 pounds. In March 2009, he gave another fundraising concert to support the Sichuan Earthquake victims organized by the British Chinese Youth Federation.

Jiafeng is still trying to achieve more success. He has already had masterclasses with Amoyal, Bruno Canino, Boris Garlitsky, Burkhard Godhoff, Eduard Grach, Tuomas Haapanen, Piotr Janowski, Herman Krebbers, Itzhak Perlman, Vadim Repin and Ruggiero Ricci etc.

Alongside his developing concert career, he has already performed as a soloist in many countries, such as China, U.S.A, U.K. Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Poland, Italy, Canada, Russia, Mexico and Ecuador etc. and with many eminent orchestras and conductors including the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra, Halle Orchestra (Rory Macdonald), Manchester Camerata, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Petri Sakari) and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (John Storgards). He is recently invited to give a recital in Denmark.


TWELVE STROKES

Shengke ZHI 智升科：Dr. Shengke Zhi graduated at the University of Manchester in 2008. His research was funded by the Overseas Research Students Award at the age of 22. Because of his distinguish idea of the research, he was awarded the 2nd Prized Research Presentation on the Research Open Day by the Manchester School of Engineering in 2004. Due to the innovative contribution to his research area, he has published five research papers and gained four scholarships from different organizations, such as Great Britain - China Education Trust. Shengke has enthusiastically committed to the voluntary works and community since he came to the UK in 2003. He joined the Manchester International Society in 2004 and was selected among the all Chinese students of the University of Manchester, as the ambassador presenting China under a scheme named the International 16. As the China Ambassador, he and other ambassadors from 15 different countries worked together to campaign for the multi‐culture awareness through exhibition, presentation and performance in primary schools and local communities.

In the March of 2005, He was elected as the Postgraduate & Mature Students Officer, which was first taken by a Chinese candidate in the history of the Students’ Union, campaigning for multicultural awareness and academic interaction. As the coordinator, he urged the regional international societies to participate in the Multi‐Culture Week and International Students Festival which was organized by the National Union of Students to promote the diverse cultures. Shengke also organized the regular academic activities so that postgraduate students can have an open environment to share their study experience. Additionally, he assisted the Academic Council of The
University of Manchester to make the survey of the research facilities and environments for postgraduate and mature students.

In the September in 2005, Shengke was elected as the Chairman of Chinese Students & Scholars Association in Manchester, where he made distinctive contribution to promoting the reputation of the association and improving its impact in local communities. He firstly launched a Sustainable Development Project for the young scholars and professionals to commercialise their projects in Manchester and China, including organizing the business trips to the exhibitions and fairs in China and entrepreneurship seminars, which gave them systematically training regarding to how
to setup business. A software enterprise was founded under this project and located at the Manchester Science Park in 2006. Secondly, Shengke built up and maintained the collaborative relationships with Manchester City Council, British Council and Wuhan Youth Federation Association in terms of multi‐culture exchanging, environment and youth development programs. Last but not least, as the president, he organized the Manchester 2006 New Year Gala to celebrate Chinese New Year which has attracted more than 800 attendees. The performance received a huge success with many positive feedbacks. Under Shengke’s leading, the CSSA-MAN was awarded the “Best Society" title in May 2006, and their successful story was published on the magazine of Chinese Scholars Abroad.

In 2006, Shengke became a member of United Nations Youth and Students Association (UNYSA), where he started to involve in the campaign for the UN’s millennium development goal (MDG), Stop AIDS, climate changing, make poverty history and youth development programs. Following a successful election of the secretary in 2007, he was in charge of the day-to-day operation of the organization, including organizing the regular committee meeting and lairising with the experts from various international organizations and charities. This experience opened his horizons and gave him a deep understanding of what a youth could do in community service worldwide.

Shengke is a football fun. Apart from playing games, he also became a qualified football referee of the Football Association in England in 2007. In his spear time, he works for Manchester County League and British Universities Football League. It provides him a good opportunity to further understand the football culture in England as well as to keep fitness by the regular exercises. Dragon Boating Racing is another favourite sport of him. In last five years, he is a member of the dragon boating team of the CSSA‐Man, which received the third prized in 2006. As the captain in 2007, Shengke and his team made the magnificence performance in the competition and gained the Runner up among 36 teams.

Shengke was prized as the 2005 National Volunteer Award in Partnership by Home Office and Community Service and Volunteer (CSV) and nominated as t the Most Promising New Comer Award by the Pearl Award Foundation in 2006. He was the delegate of 2005 Dragon 100 - Chinese Youth Leader Forum in Hong Kong and is currently a member of Liaoning Youth Federation Association.


Marco FU 傅家俊 ：Male, 31. Fu Ka-Chun, best known in Western media as Marco Fu, is a professional snooker player from Hong Kong, China. He is best known for winning the 2007 Snooker Grand Prix, beating Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final, and for being runner-up in the 2008 UK Championship. He also reached the semi finals of the 2006 World Snooker Championship.

Marco Fu started playing snooker at the age of nine, but did not start playing regularly until he was 15. Fu was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Vancouver, Canada with his parents at the age of 12. After his high school graduation at age 18, Hong Kong Billiard Sports Control Council Co. Ltd President Joseph Lo invited him to return to Hong Kong to begin his career as a professional snooker player. Before turning professional, Fu won the World Amateur and World Under-21 Championships, both in 1997.

In 1998, the year he turned professional, Fu reached the final of the Grand Prix, beating Ronnie O'Sullivan (5-2) and then Peter Ebdon (5-3) in the process. An in-form Stephen Lee proved too strong for Fu in the final, defeating him 9-2, but Fu nevertheless rose dramatically through the rankings, reaching number 15 in the world for the 2000/01 season. When he first turned professional, he was ranked 377th in the world. During the rest of the 1998/99 season, Fu qualified for four more ranking tournaments, including the World Championship, winning four qualifying matches before losing to James Wattana 10-8 in the first round of the main draw.

He was voted WPBSA Newcomer of the Year and WSA Young Player of the Year in 1999. Tipped by many pundits as a potential champion of the game, Fu's subsequent performance was disappointing, and he slid back down the rankings.

In the 1999/2000 season, with Fu now ranked 35 in the world, he received automatic entry into the main draw of most of the ranking tournaments. Although he failed to repeat the success of reaching the final of the Grand Prix, he made a credible run to the quarter finals before losing to Allister Carter. Other achievements of note include reaching semi finals of the Malta Grand Prix and the Scottish Open.

Fu is a prolific break-builder. He achieved his highest break of 147 in 2000 at the Regal Scottish Masters and has compiled 147 competitive century breaks during his career.

In 2003, Fu also won his first title since turning professional in the invitational Hasseroder Premier League, beating Mark Williams 9-5 in the final in Sunderland. This was the first time the title went outside of the British Isles.

As a result of his run to the quarter finals of the World Championship the previous season, he climbed up to number 19 for the 2003/04 season. This meant he only had to play one qualifying match to progress to the main draw of the tournaments. He qualified for all the ranking tournaments except the World Championship, his best results including a third round loss to Michael Holt in the LG Cup and reaching the semi finals of the Welsh Open, beating Liu Song, Matthew Stevens, Ken Doherty and Stephen Hendry before succumbing to Steve Davis. After a consistent 2003/2004 season, he regained a top 16 position for 2004/05 season, ranked 16.

The 2007/08 season was to bring his first ranking title. Following a first round loss at the Shanghai Masters and nine years after his first appearance in a ranking final at the 1998 Grand Prix, Fu won the 2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix - his first ever victory in a ranking event. After defeating the reigning World Champion John Higgins in the first knockout round 5-4, Liu Song 5-0 in the quarter-final and Gerard Greene 6-5 in the semi-final, he faced Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final. After falling 4-3 behind at the mid-session interval, he went on to win 9-6, with a break of 76 in the final frame. Previously, Fu’s biggest title has only been the invitational Hasseroder Premier League which he captured in 2003. For the rest of the season, he reached the quarter finals of the UK Championship, losing to Mark Selby; he also reached the semi finals of the Masters, losing to Stephen Lee.

He qualified for the 2008 World Championship, with a 10-3 win over Alan McManus . He played Ding Junhui in the first round of 2008 World Championship, and it was an emphatic fight, which he lost 10-9. He capped a successful season by finishing a career high 14 in the rankings, a climb of thirteen places from the previous season.This guaranteed Fu automatic a bye to the main draw of tournaments next season without playing qualifying matches, as well as being seeded.

In Asian, He got the Gold of 1998 Bangkok Team and 2002 Busan Team, and silver of 2002 Busan Doubles, 2006 Doha Doubles, and Silver 2006 Doha Team.

Fu once held the record for the longest frame in the history of televised snooker. The record of 77 minutes held with Mark Selby was played out during the decisive final frame during the four quarter-final match at the 2007 UK Snooker Championship held in Telford, England. Fu eventually lost the match 9-7. However, the record was then broken by Shaun Murphy and Dave Harold in a match at the China Open later in the same season. The new record is 93 minutes.

Wei TANG 湯唯：Female, 29. She is a Chinese actress and studying in the Reading University now in the UK. She was selected from more than 10,000 actresses to appear in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (Winner of the 2007 Golden Lion award) as Wong Chia Chi, co-starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Joan Chen, and Wang Lee-Hom. For the role of Wong Chia Chi, she has won in category Best New Performer of Golden Horse award. She has also been nominated for the Independent Spirit Award.

In October 2008, the Hong Kong immigration authority approved her application under Quality Migrant Admission Scheme, thus becoming a resident of Hong Kong. She also has ambitions for the United States and Hollywood as well. Nearly a year after Lust Caution, Wei makes a return to movies with top singer-actor Jacky Cheung in a new romantic drama entitled "Crossing Hennessy"

On 5 October 2007, Tang revealed that her Western name is Rebecca in an interview on KTSF television channel 26 in San Francisco. Her mother is an actress and her father is a painter. Tang was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award for her role in Lust, Caution in 2008. 2004, She won CCTV Movie Channel's Lily Award for best female role in the film, Jinghua Yanzi (literally Policewoman Swallow, TV movie) as a policewoman.


Ching-He HUANG 黃瀞億：Female, 31. Television Chef Ching-He Huang is a cook, a television personality, and an entrepreneur- but primarily she is an ambassador for Chinese cooking in Britain. In 2008 Ching has presented a six part series called, Chinese Food Made Easy on BBC2. It showcased Ching with wok-in-hand cooking on locations for the British public showing how easy, delicious, healthy and tasty Chinese cooking is. To accompany the series, the cookbook Chinese Food Made Easy, her second book, was published by Harper Collins.

This young foodie entrepreneur, who was born in Taiwan to Chinese parents, was raised on freshly-cooked home meals for which ingredients were bought on a daily basis. However, her major food influences stem from the traditional cooking styles of her farming community grandparents who lived out in the countryside of southern Taiwan. With their paddy fields and bamboo farms, they also cultivated an orangery, sweet potato patch, and mango trees.

At the age of five, Ching and her family emigrated to South Africa where she was exposed to a wholly different diet and climate. As the only Chinese children in their school, she and her older brother caused a stir with their packed lunches of stir-fried rice and vegetables with dried meat powder and cucumber pickle with chilli or mustard leaves’ pickle.

But the biggest change was to come when she was eleven and Ching moved again, this time arriving in London. From her early teens, with her parents involved in running their own businesses and as her mother was frequently abroad, Ching had to cook the family meals. She was taught the basic philosophy behind Chinese cuisine -- the emphasis on balancing yin and yang through ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ ingredients -- but was then was left to improvise by herself. Soon she was preparing everything from bamboo-leaf parcels of glutinous rice to simple, nutritious stir-fried rice dishes and noodle soups.

As a self-taught cook, therefore, this experience was to be the inspiration behind her launching her own food company, fresh from graduating from university with an Economics degree. Ching’s products can now be found at retail outlets such as the Whistlestop chain and in foodservice outlets. She also provided the salads at the Chelsea Flower Show and Wimbledon last year as well producing for a number of blue-chip companies in the City.

This was followed by the launch of Tzu, a healthy soft drinks range, which are now stocked in prestigious outlets such as Selfridges and Whole Foods well as luxury hotels and health spas including The Metropolitan, The Soho Hotel, the Charlotte Street Hotel and Champneys. She has just signed a deal with Typhoon Cookware to promote a Ching signature branded Wok to help further champion Chinese cooking in Britain.

She was given a cookery series on the UK Food Channel at the beginning of 2005 called Ching’s Kitchen. Her approachable and versatile style appealed to a younger yet sophisticated market and the show was a success. Each show had a different theme and featured Ching bringing Chinese food to the British public. Some dishes are traditional favourites that have been given a modern ‘Ching’ twist and some are authentic recipes handed down to her by her grandmother.

In autumn 2006, published her first cookbook, China Modern, which features over 100 recipes, promises to give a 21st century twist to the cuisine which has been consistently popular within British food culture for over fifty years. China Modern is published by Kyle Cathie.

Ching has also appeared on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen with James Martin, ITV’s Saturday Cooks and ITV’s Daily Cooks with Antony Worral Thompson. She has also appeared on UK Food’s Market Kitchen alongside a host of other TV chefs as well as guest appearances on Five’s Cooking the Books with Jeremy Edwards, Ready Steady Cook with Ainsley Harriot and cooked live for Melanie Sykes on Grand Designs Live. She has also written for food magazines such as BBC Good Food Magazine, Olive, Delicious and Sainsbury Magazine.

Ching is a strong supporter of the charity, Tzu-Chi, a non-profit organization founded in 1966 by Dharma Master Cheng Yen in the impoverished east coast of Taiwan. The Foundation has been contributing to better social and community services, medical care, education and humanism in Taiwan for nearly 40 years. She is also a benefactor of Mothers' Bridge of Love (MBL) - Help Chinese Children.


THIRTEEN STROKES

Gok Wan 古克∙溫：Male, 34. Gok Wan is a British fashion consultant, author and television presenter of British Chinese heritage. Gok Wan was born in Leicester, England, to a Chinese father, Hong Kong born John Tung Shing, and an English mother, Myra. He grew up on one of the city's council estates and his parents ran a local restaurant there. Wan stood out from his peers from a young age and the fact that he was mixed-race, tall, overweight and gay led to bullying from other children. He was 21 stone (133 kg) in his teenage years and later confessed, "I was really fat". He was drawn to performing arts and began attending a course at the Charles Keene College of Further Education. After receiving a diploma from the college, Wan enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama and continued to study performing arts. However, the other students had backgrounds very different to his and he felt that his weight was beginning to dictate his life, later saying:

"[It affected] everything: my personality, how people reacted to me, what I wore, everything. When you sit down with someone who's 21 stone you have certain expectations of what they're like: stupid, lazy or really funny."

He felt restricted and unhappy and eventually dropped out of the course, returning to live with his family. Wan set about losing weight and at the age of 20 he began a crash diet, losing 11 stone (70 kg) in 9 months. Despite the sudden change, he had no problem with having been overweight, later reflecting: "I don't regret having been fat at all. I know how to throw jokes at myself and I use humour before anything else, and those skills allow me to do the chatshows. So I'm thankful for that." He even lamented that, after losing weight, he had to try harder to attract attention, saying that his weight had, to an extent, defined him.

Fuelled by his personality and charm, he moved in to the world of fashion. Over the next 10 years, Wan worked with many celebrities including Bryan Ferry, All Saints, Damien Lewis, Erasure, Vanessa Mae, Wade Robson, Lauren Laverne, Wet Wet Wet, and Johnny Vaughan. He also offered his opinions to magazines, becoming a fashion consultant, and his work has been published internationally in several magazines, which include Tatler, Glamour, Times Style, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, The Face, Afisha Mir, Clash and People. He has also worked with photographers such as Rankin, Mike Owen and Jason Joyce.

Wan has also worked as an "on-screen" fashion consultant on many television shows including: MTV Shakedown (MTV Europe), GMTV (ITV), LK Today (ITV), Big Brother's Little Brother (Channel 4), Battle of the Sexes (BBC1), The Wright Stuff (Five), Make Me a Grown Up (Channel 4/T4), The Xtra Factor (ITV2) and T4 (Channel 4).

In 2006, Wan was approached by Channel 4 and asked to present his own fashion show, How to Look Good Naked. In addition, he wrote a book to accompany the series, entitled How to Look Good Naked: Shop for Your Shape and Look Amazing!, that was published in April 2007. A second series was commissioned and was broadcast on Channel 4 in mid-2007. Along with the second series, he appeared on The New Paul O'Grady Show, in which he persuaded Paul O'Grady to strip "naked". A third series was shown in early 2008. His new series, entitled Gok's Fashion Fix was broadcast on Channel 4 in mid-2008. Wan is noted for his enthusiastic use of the words "literally" and "bangers" (his word for breasts).

Wan wrote a book titled How to Dress: Your Complete Style Guide for Every Occasion which was released by HarperCollins on 1 October 2008. The book was praised by both Heat magazine and Closer for its sensitive and feel-good approach to a style guide. He also has contracts with lingerie firm where he has a range of shapewear lingerie, including a 'banger booster' bra, and Dorothy Perkins, which has instore and online tips from Gok on styling its clothing lines.

Wan appeared as a guest on Al Murray's Happy hour alongside Dawn French and Robson Green on 10 October 2008.

The first episode of his latest series Miss Naked Beauty, which he co-presents with Myleene Klass, was broadcast on 21 October 2008. The series attracted controversy after Wan hosed semi-naked women, causing critics to question the motives behind the series; Amanda Platell described it as "vulgarity masquerading as self-help".

Gok presented a documentary which was first broadcast on the 27 January 2009, entitled Too Fat Too Young, examining overweight kids in the UK. He reflected on his experience of being obese to help these teenagers.

Wan has been involved in various charitable projects, supporting anti-bullying charity Kidscape and launching a National Glasses Day with Specsavers to encourage everyone to wear their spectacles with pride. As part of Children in Need 2008, Gok treated the workers of Coronation Street's Underworld factory to a glamorous makeover.



FOURTEEN STROKES
 
劉桓 Huan Chirs LIU：Male, 35. Huan Chris Liu a Chinese-born and London based fashion designer. Born in the cosmopolitan city of Urumqi in northwest China. Liu graduated as master of art in fashion design and technology with distinction at London College of Fashion in 2003. In the early nineties Liu studied at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand and worked as a designer with knitwear brand Sabatini for four years. In 2001 he moved to London for a placement at Burberry Prorsum followed by a design consultancy with Christopher Bailey. In 2003, as part of London Development Agency's funding, Liu set up his women swear line Huan by Chris Liu. His debut catwalk show was in London City Hall in August 2003. The collection has been sold immediately to prestigious shops like Harvey Nichols, Joseph in London and Maria Luisa in Paris. Liu's celebrity clients include Maggie Cheung, Angelica Cheung, Shu Qi, Michelle Yeoh, Kylie Minogue, Sade, Jamellia and Sophia Myles. In 2005 he left Huan by Chris Liu label, he continues his own womenswear label as CHRIS LIU.

In November 2005 Liu was commissioned by the Chinese Embassy and Lord Chamberlain's Office to present an exclusive show at the London College of Fashion in the presence of the Chinese First Lady, Madame Liu during the State Visit by Chinese President Hu Jin Tao.

Liu is a visiting tutor at the London College of Fashion. Recently been described as "raising star" and "the luxury brand in the making" by the international fashion industry. In 2006 Liu designed for Rodnik SS 2007 Collection.
 

Daniel JACOEL 廖錦揚：Male, 24. Daniel Jacoel is a 48 Group Club "The Icebreakers" Board Member. The 48 Group Club is an independent business network which has been promoting equal and mutually beneficial relations with the People's Republic of China for the past 56 years. The founding "Icebreakers" were the first Westerners to establish business links with the PRC, signing the first bilateral trade agreement in 1953.

Daniel is the UK Chairman of the 48 Group Club Young Icebreakers which has organized several high profile business, cultural and educational events since launching in May 2008. These include events with All China Parliamentary Group at the House of Commons, Chairman of Tesco (David Reid), Editor-in-chief of Reuters (David Schlesinger) at Chatham House.

Daniel introduced Chinese Premier Wen to his Young Icebreakers Committee Members during the Premier's recent European tour.

After obtaining a BA in Modern and Classical Chinese from SOAS, University of London, Daniel worked for Standard Chartered Bank in Beijing. He then joined Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander where he established their China Team. Daniel now handles the China business for Akur Partners, an independent ECM and corporate finance advisory firm. His mother is Chinese.


FIFTEEN STROKES

Zhi ZZ ZHENG 鄭智：Male, 29. ZZ is a Chinese football player. He currently plays for Charlton Athletic, having spent a period on-loan at the club in 2007. Starting his career as a defender, Zhi now plays as a midfielder. He is also captain of the Chinese national team.

In 1999 his club Liaoling Chuangye involved in legal trouble and all assets of the club were frozen, including player transfers rights. After a year without playing professional football, he was transferred to Shenzhen Ping'an, then coached by Zhu Guanghu, his former coach in the U-23 national team. In Shenzhen he transformed himself in a playmaker, however, he played as a defender under Arie Haan in the national team.

He joined Charlton Athletic on loan on 29 December 2006 until the end of the season, with Charlton having an option to buy him. He was the first official signing of new manager Alan Pardew, though he had been on trial with the Addicks in November 2006 under previous manager Les Reed. He had scored 29 goals for Shandong Luneng as they won the national league title earlier in the year. Zheng made his Premier League debut against Manchester United at Old Trafford when he replaced the injured Amady Faye. His first goal came on his first start against Newcastle United in March 2007.

He returned to his parent club, Shandong Luneng, at the end of the 2006–07 season per the terms of his loan deal. He played once more for Shandong in 2007, in a 6-1 defeat to Beijing Guoan, before he returned to England to join Charlton in a permanent deal in August 2007. He joined for a fee of £2million and signed a two-year contract. In a March 2008 edition of British football magazine FourFourTwo, Zheng was voted the fifth best player in the Football League. He scored a total of seven league goals in the Championship season.

Zheng Zhi is known for his work ethic and ball control skills. He is a solid defender, capable organizer in the midfield, and also serves as a viable option as a striker. He is often regarded as the best Chinese footballer of his generation. He has been nicknamed Zizi or Zizi Top by fans.

Zheng was the captain of the 18-man Chinese national team that competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

His previous awards include 2004 AFC Asian Cup All-Star Team, and Chinese Super League Player of the Year 2002 and 2006.


SIXTEEN STROKES

Guagua BO 薄瓜瓜：Male, 22. Guagua is studying PPE (for Philosophy, Politics and Economics) at Balliol College, Oxford, on a full scholarship. He is currently the President of Oxford University PPE Society. Guagua Bo was the first Chinese student studying at Harrow School in history, entered into Oxford University with excellent results afterwards, and again became the first Chinese student studying at Balliol College. As the only Asian face in school, Guagua Bo anticipated the “Aggressive Elimination Game”, which is similar to Triathlon. Apart from this, he used to be the leader of the equestrian team and was the winner of the fencing match while studying in Harrow. His school entrance experience was described as “overcame all the difficulties in the way” by Global Times.

The photogenic 22-year-old has been featured in Chinese Esquire and is the author of a book, written in English, titled Uncommonwealth, when he was 16. Chinese media describe the book as “a critique of the blind pursuit of fads.”

He has undertaken several positions such as executive member of Oxford University Union, president assistant of Oxford Subsidizing Poor Overseas Student Association, the leader of 2008 Beijing Olympics Overseas Student Volunteer Organization, member of Adam Smith Institute and the spokesman of Oxford University PPE Society.

The young Bo is also an advisor to Oxford Emerging Markets Ltd., a company founded by Oxford undergrads with the aim of exploring investment and career opportunities in emerging markets.

He was featured as one of the ‘Top 5 Mr. Young Fashion’ in China by Esquire magazine in 2008. They commended him as the one who brings fashion outlook, equestrian, rugby, fencing, tango and western culture together. In the same year, he was elected as the executive chairman of EAS, successfully held ‘EAS Silk Road Exhibition & Ball’, which was evaluated as the most majestic and elegant one so far. This event was belauded by Chinese Embassy and appropriate authorities, also reported by NCNA specially. Besides these, Guagua Bo is popularizing Chinese culture in Oxford, anticipated the most intensive election of Oxford Union as a nominator, and stand out ‘Chinese’ in that campaign. By the end he won a landslide victory and became the first Chinese committee member in history. He was committed as one of the 38 standing out Chinese students globally by Asia Society. In the wake of the May 12 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, he funded ‘Oxford University Sichuan Earthquake Fundraising Committee’ and helped launch a drive to collect more than £15,000 donations for the purchase of teaching equipment to be used by makeshift schools in the quake zone.

For the remarkable performance, his name ‘Guagua’ has been endowed with special meaning, reported by the university newspaper. He was also named in its annual ‘The Most 50 Influential People’ in the University. Jackie Chan is one the most renowned and respected Asian celebrity. After hearing of Guagua Bo’s contribution in the western world, he went to give a talk to PPE Society for the culture communion between Eastern and Western.


Tie FAN 範鐵：Male, 34. Tie Fan gained his bachelor degree in Architecture in the South China University of Technology and MSc at in 1999 at the Robert Gordon University in Scotland. He qualified as a RIBA chartered architect in 2002 and was awarded the Harnourne Maclennan Prize in the RIBA Part III examination.

After graduation he joined RMJM to work on the new Scottish Parliament Headquarter project in Edinburgh. The project is highly complex, challenging and attracted intense media and public attention. This is reflected in the construction cost which is about 10,000 pounds per square metre. He was based on site for three years, working closely with specialists on the highly complex vaulted ceiling and later the precast concrete package. The project was completed in 2005 and awarded the highest honour for architecture in UK -Stirling Prize in the same year.

Joining Foster + Partners in 2003, he initially worked on the Beijing International Airport T3 for the Beijing Olympic, currently the largest terminal in the world. He was responsible for three major design packages - the concrete structure, the façade and the roof packages. He subsequently worked on a number of major airport projects including the Frankfurt T3 International Airport in Germany and the Shenzhen T3 International airport in China.

He went on to work on the Belair phase 5 – a 700-unit luxury residential project in Hong Kong. Based in Hong Kong for several months, he collaborated closely with the client, the local architect and the consultants. The integral sun shading design provides at least 10 percent saving on energizing bill and the pre-cast construction method ensure the quality and the speed of construction - less than 4 days per floor. The project sets a new benchmark for height end residential development in Hong Kong.

Following his return to London in 2006, he was promoted to associate in Foster+Partners and was responsible for a number of competitions and master plan projects in China, South East Asia and Middle East, including the Shenzhen Stock Exchange tower and the 700 metre tall Shanghai Centre Tower in China, the HoChiMinh Dockland Regeneration master plan in Vietnam and the Serrenia luxury resort master plan in Egypt.

He has experience of a diverse range of airport, cultural, commercial, infrastructure and residential projects in Europe, the Far East and the Middle East. Most recently he has been involved in the Queen Alia International Airport in Jordan, taking a lead role in its design. The project is currently on site and will be a major international airport in the region.

He was promoted to associate partner in Foster+Partners in 2008.

In 2008 Tie founded WE (WestEast) Design, a London based non-for-profit organization with members from various expertise within creative industry. WE Design group aims to build a footstone to provide multi-cultural, cross-disciplinary collective platform for design professionals enabling them to enhance their expertise knowledge sharing and to support the development of creative industrial in China. WE Design is currently the biggest and most influential overseas Chinese designers organisation. The group won the Excellent Overseas Designers Group Award in Shenzhen International Original Design Fair 2008.

In response to the Sichuan earthquake disaster, with WE Design Tie curetted the exhibition “Delivery to Sichuan”. Five design teams from Beijing and London were invited to come up with a conceptual design to address the urgent needs in the emergency situation after natural disaster. The exhibition in London was well perceived by over 300 designers, artist and professionals who attended the event. CCTV, BBC, and other media broadcast and reported the event.

Tie is currently curating the Sichuan School International Design Competition with WE Design, UCL and Sichaun Provincial Institute of Architectural Design to support the recovery work for an important high school in Chengdu. The ideas collected in the competition will also benefit hundreds of school reconstruction projects in sichuan earthquake. This is high profile competition with over 200 participates from UK, China, USA, Australia, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Finland, Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia. The jury, chaired by Professor Cj Lim from Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) will be held in UCL main hall in April 2009.

Lisa Tse 謝維嘉：Female, 30. Lisa Tse is an award winning designer specialising in creative branding. Her diverse background has afforded her experience in all aspects of creative brand communications including art direction, graphic and web design.

A British-Born Chinese, Lisa came to London in 2002 to pursue a Masters in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins.

During the course of her academic research, the demand for her creative flair and commercial acumen became apparent as she developed relationships with a series of prominent design agencies in London including Priestman Goode, Tangerine and Samsung Design Europe. She was also invited by Tom Dixon to steer the creative web development for his brand.

Having graduated in 2004 with a string of commercial design awards to her name, Lisa went on to consult for product design firm Priestman Goode on a range of projects including Malaysia Airlines and Hutchison, before joining digital agency CMW Interactive, where she was responsible for redeveloping the commercial sales site for Renault Retail Group.

Echoing the meaning “To Sustain Excellence” behind her Chinese name Weijia, the pursuit of creative excellence was always at the heart of why Tse chose to go solo after graduating. With intense ambition and a natural head for business, she realized her dream of establishing a signature design studio based in the heart of London in 2005 when Lisa Tse Creative Consulting was born.

Lisa Tse’s signature style celebrates a sophisticated simplicity, combining thoughtful, intelligent details with a focused approach reflected in her studio’s creatively driven philosophy.

In 2008 Lisa was approached to be the Global Creative Director for The Body Shop, a role she eventually chose not to pursue having chosen to focus on the projects within her own signature agency.

Lisa’s studio was also appointed an official Creative Partner for CHINA NOW, the UK’s largest festival celebrating the very best of Modern China in the UK in 2008. CHINA NOW has received wide support from sponsors and public figures, including Stephen Green Chairman of HSBC, and Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister.

In August 2008 Lisa was one of six British delegates on an official Trade Mission to China organised by UK Trade & Investment supported by the British Government, promoting British Design to Chinese businesses. The visit coincided with the Beijing Olympics where as part of the formal British programme, Lisa was a speaker at the Creative Seminar Day hosted in London House by Lord Digby Jones and the Mayor of London.

Flexible and dynamic, Lisa Tse Creative Consulting services an international client roster, working with a diverse range of brands from beauty and fashion to hospitality and electronics.

Lisa Tse is also an established businesswoman involved in a diverse range of international ventures. Lisa is a founding partner for Pearl Multimedia, a dynamic media group focused on promoting Modern China to Western audiences whose collaborations include events with Sir David Tang KBE and HRH Duke of York, and Bloom & Tse, a creative business group integrating commercial strategy with design. She is active in private business networks developing new ventures and opportunities with partners and collaborators around the world.

In addition to working with clients, Lisa is committed to supporting creative enterprise in the design industry and education sector as an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London UK.

Businesswoman, designer and sought-after brand guru, Lisa Tse emerged as a fresh talent, supporting companies in a creative and commercial capacity.

Known for her glamorous feminine style and creative flair, Lisa Tse soon established herself as the rising femme fatale of British design.
 

十七劃

Dingding SA 薩頂頂：Female, 28. SA Dingding is a Chinese folk singer and songwriter. She is of mixed Han and Mongolian ancestry, and sings in languages including Mandarin, Sanskrit, Tibetan, as well an imaginary self created language to evoke the emotions in her songs. She also plays traditional instruments such as the guzheng and matouqin (horse-head fiddle).

Born in Inner Mongolia, She was influenced by the music of the ethnic minorities while living with her grandmother in Inner Mongolia until the age of 6. She also became interested in Buddhism and taught herself Tibetan and Sanskrit. Later on, she moved to Beijing to study philosophy and music at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music.

By the time she turned 18, she released her first album entitled Dong Ba La under the name Zhou Peng, awarding her with the title of China’s Best Dance Music Singer.

In 2006, "Holy Incense" was used as the theme song for the movie Prince of the Himalayas, directed by Sherwood Hu.

In mid-2007, she released Alive, now available physically and as a download in many countries. The Hong Kong release of the album features a DVD containing music videos, a remix of "Alive", making of footage and a Chinese version of "Mama Tian Na", not featured on the album.

In 2008 she won the BBC Radio 3 World Music Award for the Asia-Pacific region, as well as releasing a two track single called Qin Shang.

Dingding composed a song with Eric Mouquet of Deep Forest called Won't Be Long to raise funds for disaster relief after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The song was made available on Mouquet's Deep-Projects website. Mouquet and Dingding have collaborated on a forthcoming album Deep China.

Most recently, Dingding has appeared at Womad and the Harrogate Festival in the UK. She is currently working on another album, possibly due out by the end of 2008. On October 6, her official English website was updated with information about a European tour, going from November 7th to 17th, making stops in Germany, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Las Palmas, Australia and New Zealand.

For Chinese composer He Xuntian's 2008 album, Tathāgata, Dingding contributed the vocals for the second track, entitled "Da ta qie da".

二十劃

Alexa CHUNG 艾裏珊∙鐘：Female, 26. Alexa Chung is a British TV presenter and former fashion model.

Alexa Chung was raised in Privett, Hampshire by her English mother, a housewife, and her Chinese father, a graphic designer. She is the youngest of four children and has two brothers and one sister. Her elder brother is DJ Dom Chung.

She attended the local comprehensive school, Perins Community College, and later the sixth form Peter Symonds College, Winchester (2000-2002). She had been accepted by King’s College London to read English and by Chelsea College of Art and Design to do an art foundation course, with two 'A' grades (English and Art) and a 'B' (History) at A-level, before being scouted by a modelling agency.

She modelled for teen magazines such as Elle Girl and CosmoGIRL! and appeared in adverts for products including Fanta, Sony Ericsson, Sunsilk and Tampax. She also modelled for Urban Outfitters.

In January 2008, Chung was announced as the face of Antipodium's Spring Summer 2008 collection, which is on sale at Liberty and Harvey Nichols.

In May 2008, Chung was announced as the face of Oxfam's ethical fashion range, Revamped, sold exclusively at Westbourne Grove, West London.

In September 2008, Chung walked the catwalk as part of the Vivienne Westwood Red Label Spring/Summer 2009 show at London Fashion Week.

Chung first auditioned as a T4 presenter when she was 18 but “didn’t get anywhere because I was hideously Hampshire, going “Ya, ya”, and thinking I was really funny”.

When the original Popworld presenters, Miquita Oliver and Simon Amstell left in 2006, Chung’s audition tape was reviewed and, in April 2006, she was offered the job of co-host, alongside former MTV presenter Alex Zane. Popworld was known for its witty, irreverent and awkward style of interviews. An interview Chung conducted with Panic at the Disco, in particular, attracted attention. “I corrected singer Brendon Urie’s grammar halfway through and then it all went a bit cold. He got pi**ed off after that. The clip is on YouTube and about 10,000 American kids have left comments saying: ‘Oh my God, who does she think she is? I hate the English.’ Which is amusing.” The last show aired in July 2007, after Channel 4 decided not to recommission the programme.

Chung and Zane also presented a weekly, internet-streamed radio show called Popworld Radio from September 2006 to May 2007, in conjunction with the TV programme. The programme was awarded the Sony Radio Academy Award's Bronze Music prize, who said it had "a style and tone of its own that encompasses rich content, insightful interviewing and original presentation.”

In April 2007, Chung starred in the ITV1 series Get a Grip, opposite comedian Ben Elton. The topical satirical show, scripted by Elton, was panned by television critics.

In August 2007, Chung signed a year-long "golden handcuffs" deal with Channel 4, worth £100,000. As part of this deal, she guest presented Big Brother’s Big Mouth, presented T4’s coverage of V Festival, T in the Park and T4 on the Beach and appeared as a panellist on quiz show 8 out of 10 Cats.

She hosts a number of T4 Movie Specials, 4Music Specials, along with T4 Holiday Mornings.

In September 2007, Chung began presenting Channel 4’s early morning music programme Freshly Squeezed, with alternating co-hosts Nick Grimshaw and Rick Edwards. The show airs on weekdays at 7am.

In December 2007, she was at number 18 in Broadcast's Hot 100 Talent list.

In January 2008, Chung became one of four anchor T4 presenters, following the departure of June Sarpong.

Chung was the host of T4’s Vanity Lair, a ten-week reality show that aimed to explore contemporary notions of what being a beautiful person really means. When the show was mentioned in a later interview, "Chung raises her eyebrows, indicating embarrassment."

She presented BBC Three's The Wall which began in April 2008, along with Rhys Thomas. The eight-week live show featured comedy, sketches, chat and music performances.

Chung has also hosted industry events including the Hair Magazine Awards 2007, Diesel U Music Awards 2007 and the Elle Style Awards 2008.

Chung was the "roving reporter" on Channel 4's eight-week fashion programme, "Gok's Fashion Fix". On the programme, Chung roadtested the latest fashion trends with members of the public, and interviewed fashion designers such as Roberto Cavalli, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier, Margherita Missoni and Christian Lacroix. She has described it as 'pretty much my dream job'.

Chung wrote a monthly column for British women’s magazine Company from October 2007 to June 2008. She currently writes a weekly newspaper column for The Independent, 'Girl About Town', which is published every Wednesday.

Chung has supported numerous charities including the Terrence Higgins Trust, World AIDS Day, Friends of the Earth's The Big Ask, Product Red, Greenpeace and Attitude is Everything. In December 2007, Chung designed a condom tin for Company magazine to help "convince people to carry condoms".

In January 2008, Chung designed a range of jewellery for Made Boutique, a Fair Trade organisation, which she is often seen wearing.

The people listed below are not candidates

Director of 2009 Big Ben Award Organizing Committee

for Ten Outstand Chinese Young Persons Selections in the UK

Jonsson Li, MA, MCP, MCSE, MCDBA. Economist and business consultant. He is the president of British Chinese Youth Federation, the visiting professor of Renmin (People's) University of China. His research fields include venture capital, private equity, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and UK & China relationship. He is the author of 'Investing in China', 'City of London', 'Venture Capital and Private Equity', 'Tony Blair (1997-2007)'. There are five investment and business book for him to be published in 2009.

He is the founder of Big Ben Award, Ten Outstanding Chinese Young persons Selection in the UK. He is responsible for the plan, implement, public voting supervising, and final statistics of the Big Ben Award.