Eckehard Scharfschwerdt
(German)

-Medical specialist

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

Eckehard Scharfschwerdt has provided medical treatment for residents in remote and poor areas in Yunnan including Dali prefecture and Honghe prefecture since 2001. He is regarded by local people as a "Contemporary Bethune". He has also immersed himself in the local life in Yunnan, contributing to its poverty reduction.

 

William Lindasay
(British)

-Expert on Great Wall protection and research

-Founder of the International Friends of the Great Wall

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

In 1987, William Lindasay, alone, walked along the Great Wall for 87 days, making him the first foreigner to visit all sections of the Great Wall. He was committed to protecting the Great Wall, and has organized volunteers from different countries to pick up garbage scattered along it. In 2001, Lindasay founded the Association of International Friends of the Great Wall.

 

Jeffrey Lehman
(American)

-Former president of Cornell University in the US

-President of New York University in Shanghai

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

Jeffrey Lehman introduced the legal education qualification of Juris Doctor (Doctor of Law), or J.D., an educational modal of cultivating leading political and business talents in the US, to China after his arrival in 2006. The program has helped over 1000 Chinese students grow as talents with international horizons and innovative abilities, and boosted high-level exchange of laws, education and research between China and the US. Lehman also acts as a consultant to both the US and Chinese governments.

 

James Hope
(British)

-Expert on car styling

-Executive director of Chery Automobile's European industrial design center

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

James Hope is a globally-known car styling expert. He was appointed as the director of Chery Automobile in 2012. A number of Chery cars' styling was developed by Hope and gained a high market response.

 

Robin Gilbank
(British)

-Expert on foreign language teaching

-Literature translator

-Professor of English at Northwest University

 

After getting a doctorate in 2008, Robin Gilbank started his teaching career at Northwest University in China, and was selected as the most popular foreign teacher for eight consecutive years. He was very productive in literature translation and overseas publishing. His translation works include Mountain Stories, How Old Dan Became a Tree and The Earthen Gate, and his English works introducing China include The Prettiest Liar, Explore China and An Englishman in the Land of Qin.

 

Moris Topaz
(Israeli)

-Expert of clinical medicine

-President of the clinical continuing education department of Hebrew University of Jerusalem

-Guest professor of Taiyuan Municipal No 2 People's Hospital

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

Moris Topaz has been contributing to high-level emergency cooperation, and to introducing and sending out medical personnel between China and Israel, since he came to China in 2005. He saved numerous people during the Wenchuan earthquake with his self-invented negative pressure technique for the treatment of trauma, getting high recognition as the "disaster area's Bethune" from local residents.

 

Majdi Alhmah
(Syrian)

-Founder of BFG International China

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

Majdi Alhmah brought BFG International to China in 2006. It became BFG International China after being joined by Changchun Lutong Rail Vehicle Equipment company. Alhmah helped China get two core technologies in railway construction, and built JobTube, China's largest overseas talents exchanges and recruitment platform.

 

Yuanxiang Lee
(Singaporean)

-Economist

-CEO of Pingan Group

-Member of Shenzhen's high-level overseas talents plan "Peacock Plan"

 

Yuanxiang Lee, an economist with international views, has been active in China's insurance, medicine and health innovation and development since he came to China in 2000. He introduced advanced foreign insurance practices to China with due consideration of local situations.

 

Borys E.Paton
(Ukrainian)

-President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

-President of the Barton Institute

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

Borys E. Paton has contributed to advancing China's technologies, especially melding techniques, and to the scientific and technological cooperation between China and Ukraine.

 

 

Soeda Shuhei
(Japanese)

-Expert on Japanese broadcasting

-Former Japanese broadcaster of China Radio International

 

Soeda Shuhei has worked as a Japanese broadcaster for almost half a century in China, hosting news and commentary programs, during which time he has cultivated a lot of talents from Japan and contributed greatly to China-Japan friendship.

 

Kazuki Okimura
(Japanese)

-Former president of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

-Winner of the International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China

 

Kazuki Okimura has been committed to China-Japan educational and scientific exchanges for a long time. He pushed forward scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation between the two countries when he worked at Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology. In addition, he was incharge of several events significant for the two nations' scientific and technological cooperation.

 

Henry Lee
(American)

-Forensic science expert

-Honorary president and professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University of Forensic Sciences

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

Henry Lee, regarded as "the king of restoring crime scenes" and "master of forensic science". He launched the Silk Road Forensic Consortium in 2016, offering an open platform for international forensic cooperation and exchange.

 

Roger Detels
(American)

-Epidemimologist

-Expert on infectious diseases controlling

-Former president of the American Epidemiological Society

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

-Winner of the award for outstanding contributions to international cooperation on HIV/AIDS prevention and control

 

Through about three-decades of cooperation on HIV/AIDS prevention and control in China, Detels has cultivated a great number of world-leading experts on HIV/AIDS prevention and control for China with his excellent teaching methods and research ability. He has been a great influence in global public health.

 

Isabel Crook
(Canadian)

-Expert on foreign language teaching

-Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University

 

As an educator and a pioneer of English teaching in China, Crook has dedicated herself at Beijing Foreign Studies University for over half a century, cultivating numerous English talents for China.

 

Cho Sung Hye
(Korean)

-Expert on foreign language teaching

-Professor on Korean language at Hefei University

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

Cho has made great efforts on China-Korea people to people exchanges since she came to China in the 1990s. Cho has taught Korean seriously, regarded by students as the most popular foreign teacher for many years. In addition, she has helped over 2,000 Chinese students study in Korea, supported three charity primary schools, and, at the same time, introduced stories of China's culture and development to the Koreans.

 

Alain Louis Marcel Mérieux
(French)

-Expert on bio-pharmaceuticals

-Chairman of Institut Mérieux

-President of China's Biomerieux board

-President of Fondation Mérieux

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

Mérieux's businesses have productively cooperated with China in prevention and control of many infectious diseases, including tuberculosis and emerging infectious diseases since 1978. Mérieux and his family had enjoyed a good relationship with Chinese people even before that year.

 

Nikolay Dushin
(Russian)

-Expert on ophthalmology

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

Dushin has worked at Daqing Ophthalmology Hospital in NE China's Heilongjiang province since his retirement in 2000. He has brought light to many people with eye illness by the advanced skills he brought to China. He has treated over 100,000 patients, including over 2,000 who underwent operations. He is regarded as a "bright envoy" from Russia.

Robert Gasch
(German)

-Expert on structural dynamics and wind power

-Director of measuring and controlling institution on rotating machinery and wind power plant between Northwestern Polytechnical University and Technische Universität Berlin

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

-Winner of national teaching award

 

Robert Gasch has greatly contributed to the close relationships between Northwestern Polytechnical University in China and Technische Universität Berlin and other institutions since 1985. He focuses on structural dynamics and wind power research and his great achievements have been widely used in both China and Germany. Almost 1000 talents on wind power were cultivated by Robert Gasch, contributing to China's wind power development.

Peter Grabau
(Danish)

-Aerodynamicist

-Chief engineer on wind turbine blades at Jiangsu-based Envision Energy Co Ltd

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

Since working full time in China in 2012, Peter Grabau has led his R&D teams to develop innovative wind turbine blades. He launched the world's first wind turbine with a 93-meter impeller and ultra-low wind speed, and also the world's first modular and partially variable pitch blades which cost 30 percent less than traditional offshore wind turbines. His efforts lead to progress in China's wind power industry.

Colin Patrick Mackerras
(Australian)

-Winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award

 

Mackerras, almost 80 years old, still teaches. He has visited China over 60 times during the past half century, committed to introducing China's true situations to Australia and the rest of the world, and to helping establish the first Chinese research center in Australian universities. Mackerras's son was the first Australian citizen born in China.