Expats named model workers

A Frenchman and a Japanese have been named model workers - the first time expatriates in Beijing have been given the honor.

They are Luc Picard, 73, a doctor who works at the Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, and Aki Kishi, 56, a senior consultant at the Beijing Tede Pharmaceutical Co Ltd.

Picard has been in China 15 times since the 1970s, is an expert on interventional neuroradiology and has trained more than 10 Chinese doctors.