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Hotung Institute for International Relations

	International Symposium on "Asia-Pacific Security Situation" - Dec 2002
	International Symposium on Sino-US_European Relations in the New Century: Opportunites and Challenges - Nov 2003
	International Symposium on "International Counter - Terrorism Situation & Coorperation" - May 2004
	Visit to Mothers And Infants of the LongSheng County, Guangxi, China - June 2004

China - Activity Report

H.E. Ambassador Eric Hotung C.B.E., an International Philanthropist, grandson of Sir Robert Hotung, comprador for the Jardine Matheson Company Limited HK.

Introduce a low cost-housing scheme approximately one million square feet for disadvantaged people of Hong Kong. H.E. Ambassador Eric Hotung sold it to the lower middle class people at installment fee lower than their rental. In some instances as low as HKD $10 per month. Twenty thousand people benefited from H.E. Ambassador Eric Hotung generosity and strategic planning to their future. These people now have real asset of good value. He founded the HK Development Company Ltd, Cosmopolitan Properties & Securities Limited, and the Hotung Institute of International relations.

Promoted understanding between China and U.S. through various sensitive diplomatic missions and in his capacity both as financial advisor on Chinese affairs at the centre for strategic studies in Washington and as counsellor with Henry Kissingers international Counsellors.

The Hotung Special Fund for Mothers and Infant Protection, Longsheng Guangxi Province, China.

In recent years the women (80,000 around 45,000 of child bearing age) of these minority people have been reluctant give births in hospitals resulting in a high death rate, on average every five days one infant would die.

When H.E. Ambassador Eric Hotung heard of this situation, he kindly donated RMB 1,090,000 to establish a special fund to help them. Later in 2001, H.E. Ambassador Eric Hotung donated another RMB 1,331,800 to set up a mobile clinic to deal with this problems. The whole donation reaches RMB 2,421,800. Up to April 2003, they have helped 1,239 lying-in women give birth at the hospitals and 1,256 babies(649 boys, 607 girls) have safely come to the world. Among them there are 17 pairs of twins. The rate of childbirth at hospital has been raised to 63.34%, an increase of 26.5% compared with 1998. The rate of death infants is 21.91 per thousand, a drop of 21.57% compared with 1998.

Helping the Chinese Ethnic girl students and primary schools in Guangxi and Yanan Provinces, China.

Because of the poverty and the bad habits of regarding men as superior to women, the entrance rate of the minority nationality girls is very low while is dropping out rate very high at Longsheng Country, Guangxi Province. And this has constituted an outstanding problem challenging the development of the national education in the country. According to the statistics, there are only 288 girl students of minority nationality studying at the Longsheng High School, making up only 28.8% of the total number of students of the school. Among the girl students of minority nationality, there are only 85 from countryside including small townships, accounting for 8.5% of the total. To change the situation, the local government started 10 girl classes of minority nationality at the primary school and 5 girl classes of the minority nationality at junior high schools. In order to make the students of the girl classes have a higher education, gradually forming a chain of education from primary school high school then to university. It trained more high-qualified female talents of minority nationality and promotes the improvement of the quality of all the women of minority nationality. The Country government planned to open a senior girl class of minority nationality with 50 students at the only high school of Longsheng Country, but their ambition was challenged by the shortage of educational fund. Right at this critical moment, H.E. Ambassador Eric Hotung came to their help and donated for the 50 girls' tuition fee for 3 years. Finally the class opened on time.

The situation was even worse in the mountain areas high above the sea level in Yunnan Province where the economy was backward. For instance, there are 9 primary schools in the Dali Prefecture, a sub administrate region of the Province, a part of their classrooms had long been out of repair and were in a dangerous state. If they could not be repaired in time, it would threaten the lives of the pupils studying there. It was also H.E. Ambassador Eric Hotung who extended his humanitarian offer to them and helped to repair their classrooms.

A great help to the eye patients, especially those poor eye patients in Beijing.

Beijing is the capital of PRC, yet up to 2001, there was no OCT scanner in any of the hospitals in Beijing. So all of those who need the OCT test must go all the way from Beijing far in the North to Guangzhou in the South. It caused great inconvenience to the eye patients in Beijing, but gave refusal to those who were poor. Then one of the eye patients thought of H.E. Ambassador Eric Hotung, the British philanthropist and came to him for help. As soon as H.E. Ambassador Eric Hotung listened to his advice, he asked his office in Beijing to contact the eye hospital of China Academy of TMC with the result that an OCT scanner room had been established in the Hospital in 2001. To express their thanks, the OCT room was named Eric Hotung OCT room.

In the last two decades, H.E. Ambassador Eric Hotung not only made great contributions to help the improvement of Sino-US relations, the medical treatment of the poor women and their babies, to raise the education level of the girls of the minority nationality, and also offered enormous help to China in many other fields. He supported the following organisations,

Asian Iron Sports Triathlon held in Xuzhou, Jingsu Province
construction of the new Shanghai Museum to buy an ancient bronze wine vessel and donated it to Shanghai Museum
China Cultural Relics Administration for writing and publishing an encyclopaedia of the Chinese art
Si Hong, Jiangsu Province in memory of the anti-Japanese martyrs
Xuzhou museum in memory of those died in the civil war

Donations of H.E. Ambassador Eric Hotung in Connection with China

The Intercultural Center of the Georgetown University
The friendship and Peaceful Development Foundation of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)(May1996)
The CPAFFC's Friendship Museum (1998)
China Cultural Relics Administration to write and publish an encyclopaedia of the Chinese art (1998)
The Huaihai MemorialTablets(1998)
The Song Qing Ling Foundation (1Sep 992)
Shanghai Museum (December 1995)
Buy a bronze wine vessel for Shanghai Museum
Sponsor American delegation led by Dr Brezezinski to China (1995)
Sponsor Mr Wang Bingnan and his party to USA (1995)
Built a clinic in Ningxia Province
Found a primary school in Ningxia Province
Si Hong Country in Jiangsu Province in memory of the anti-Japanese martyrs
Build a Chinese garden in China Institute in New York
Sponsor Mr Huan Xiang's visit to USA
Mr Zhu Rongji's visit to USA (co-sponsored with the National Committee on US-China Relations (1990))
China's small business
Promote China's permanent MFN status (June 1990)China's small business
Senior Girls class in Longsheng Country, Guangxi Province (September 2000)
Hotung Special Fund for the Protection of Mother & Infants of the Longsheng Country, Guangxi Province (October 2000)
Longsheng Country for Mothers & Infants (November 2000)
Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province to support the Asian Iron Sport Triathlon
Set up a mobile clinic for Mothers & Infants in Longsheng Country (July 2001)
Donate an OCT scanner to the Eye Hospital (2001)
9 primary schools in Yunnan Province (May 2001)
Tongze High School in Liaoning Province (2001)

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