Volunteers gain experience, help build bridges at global meeting

Dorata Wandzel from Poland has been learning Chinese at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou for three months "to explore Chinese culture and to learn how Chinese people actually live". But she acknowledges that doing voluntary work for the Fortune Global Forum has boosted her learning experience.

"I learnt how to cooperate with Chinese people. It is something that is totally different in China than in Europe. Being a volunteer in China is being part of a huge community. In Europe we are more independent and every volunteer is on their own in what they are doing. But here, everyone works in tandem with the rest of the team."

Wandzel is one of the seven foreign volunteers serving the forum, with the others from the United States, Finland, Austria, India and Benin. Most of them are studying or working in Guangzhou.