Town honors New Zealand friend

A New Zealand-born social activist and writer who was a great friend and supporter of the Chinese people was remembered at an event in Changting, Fujian province, on Friday.

Rewi Alley arrived in China in 1927, and came to prominence during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).

He helped to found the International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, an organization that set up small, self-supporting factories to enable the country's industrial sector to recover and develop.