2006 News

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September

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May

  • Paulsen Bill To Teach Mandarin Chinese Becomes Law
  • Mark Lee, NASA Lecture (pic)

    Dr. Mark Lee, senior program executive at NASA headquarters, gave the presentation “The Stating Point of Life, The Mission to Moon & Mars and China’s Shen Zhou Program” at Macalester College on May 25.

April

  • China Day

    More than 550 Chinese students from metro area high schools attended the China Center’s annual China Day. The event opened with an interactive dance exhibition preformed by CAAM Dance Theater. Speakers included representatives from Best Buy, Hormel, and Four51°. The speakers gave encouraging presentations demonstrating the many career options available to students who develop their Chinese language skills. All China Day guests where treated to lunch at local Chinese restaurant, compliments of the China Center.

January

  • Dance Team Performance

    A group of 30 junior and senior high school students from the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China (RDFZ) visited the University Jan. 30. Most of the students are in the dance team of RDFZ’s Performance Group. They were led by Mr. Guo Zongguang, deputy director of the Division of American and Oceanian Affairs in the Bureau for External Cultural Relations at the Chinese Ministry of Culture, and Ms. Liu Xiaohui, vice principal of RDFZ and director of the Performance Group, on a performance tour in the U.S. Their Chinese New Year performance in Minnesota, co-sponsored by the China Center, was warmly received by the audience. Their visit to the University was hosted by the China Center and the Office of International Programs. Jim Rowan, assistant director of the Office of Admissions, gave them an interesting presentation about the University and a tour of campus. RDFZ is one of the best high schools in Beijing and was established in 1950 under the direct leadership of the Chinese Ministry of Education.
  • Chinese New Year Dinner

    The China Center held its Chinese New Year dinner Jan. 30. Friends of the China Center gathered at the Weisman Art Museum to celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Dog. Student recipients of the Red Pockets and Hsiao scholarships participated in a poster session about their experiences in China. The keynote speaker, James L. McGregor, author of One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, gave a dynamic and stimulating talk on doing business with China.