“This Saturday, the Committee of 100 will host a dinner at the Hyatt Hotel in New York.
President Li told me that there was an induction dinner specially held to welcome me into the association. If you attend, I would also like to thank you in person. Zhou Xin said.
The thanks here are serious thanks. A lawyer who can become a partner in the Asia-Pacific region cannot be offended no matter how incompetent he is.
Yang Yimei: "President Li also told me that I will definitely be there. Even if there is something important that day, I will be there.
What President Li and I said was that our Committee of 100 was going to welcome a heavyweight member to this dinner, and he was the richest member in the history of the Committee of 100. It will be difficult for anyone to be richer than him in the future.
I immediately guessed it was you. You are the richest Chinese in the world. You were also introduced to me by President Li.
With your joining the 100 people, I am more confident in the future development of Chinese people in the United States. "
The lawyer can say that Zhou Xin has always known that when he started his own business, the company's legal affairs were the most important thing to talk about.
Talk about one thing after another.
Li Xihui didn't know that while Zhou Xin joined the Committee of 100, he would also start his own business.
The main reason is that the elites of the Committee of 100 are mainly in the humanities and social sciences, and have very little contact with scholars in science and engineering.
And Yang Zhenning is almost eighty years old at this time, so he has no energy to care about this.
He is just a name in the Committee of 100. He retired from New York University at Stony Brook in May this year, and most of his energy is focused on Hong Kong and the mainland.
"100th Anniversary Celebration of the Committee of 100"
The Committee of 100 was established in 1989, and this year marks its 10th anniversary.
Zhou Xin was gaining momentum, so Li Xihui simply did two things together, Zhou Xin's joining and the tenth anniversary of the Committee of 100.
“The Committee of 100 is a well-known Chinese elite group in America. It has been committed to promoting the relationship between America and China and cross-strait exchanges for many years.
played a special positive role in this process.
Today we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Committee of 100, and we are also celebrating the addition of a new member.
The Committee of 100 has always required members to be Chinese Americans. Mr. Pei, Mr. Yo-Yo Ma and other founder members and I have realized in recent years that this is not good.
The Committee of 100 is a Chinese elite group that promotes relations between America and China. However, there are only Chinese Americans in our organization, but there is a lack of voices from China.
The Chinese in China are also Chinese, so starting from this year, we will have a quota for one Chinese elite to join the club every year. Today, we are honored to invite Zhou Xin to join our Hundred People Club.
Mr. Bei was very happy when he learned that Zhou Xin was willing to join the Committee of 100. He said that Zhou Xin's willingness to join the Committee of 100 was not Zhou Xin's glory, but the glory of the Committee of 100.
If even elite Chinese Americans like Zhou Xin in the United States do not join the Committee of 100, then how can the Committee of 100 have the nerve to call itself an elite group?
Zhou Xin has only been with Americen for a year and has already created several successful companies and is well-known in Silicon Valley, Americen and even the world.
The first time I met Zhou Xin was at a dinner organized by Jerry Yang. The first impression Zhou Xin gave me at that time was that he was young, too young.
Zhou Xin's youth combined with his achievements gave me an unreal feeling. At that time, Quora had not yet been sold to Time Warner for $74 billion.
If I were to meet him now, I'm afraid I would lose my ability to organize language.
Putting aside external factors at the dinner, Zhou Xin's conversation and views on things alone, it is no exaggeration to describe him as elite.
He can always accurately grasp the essence of things and give a preliminary solution. During the conversation, I would forget his age and even have the illusion that he was my elder.
Therefore, we are very happy to have such outstanding newcomers join us on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Committee of 100. At the same time, we also have a more complete mechanism to join the organization. "
If it weren't for Zhou Xin, until 2020, the Committee of 100 would not have changed its membership criteria, that is, Chinese Americans.
As the former vice-president of the Committee of 100, Kai-fu Lee was withdrawn from the membership after giving up his American citizenship.
The specific withdrawal process cannot be tested, but there is no Kaifu Lee in the membership list on the official website of the Committee of 100 in 2023.
Zhou Xin didn't know this. If Zhou Xin knew about it, he would secretly praise himself for establishing a new branch.
After Li Xihui finished speaking, there was warm applause from the audience, and then Zhou Xin appeared on the stage.
The dinner of the Meeting of 100 people, whether it was the style of the dinner or the fact that everyone spoke in Chinese, gave Zhou Xin the illusion that this was not New York, but Yanjing.
The background of the speech was bright red, and then it was written in Chinese and English: 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Committee of 100.
There were flowers on the podium, and everything was so Chinese.
“It’s great to see so many outstanding Chinese elites here.”
After Zhou Xin came to power, many Chinese elites with daughters of school age in the audience were impressed.
In addition to money, Zhou Xin's appearance is also impressive, with a height of 1.8 meters combined with fair skin and angular facial features.
The only drawback is that he is a little thin and his face is too childish to hold up the suit he is wearing.
"President Li just spoke so well of me that I felt a little embarrassed in the audience.
I am nothing but rich. "
After Zhou Xin finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter from the audience. They were used to hearing official talk on such occasions, and Zhou Xin's speech clearly made everyone feel refreshed.
"However, when President Li invited me to join the club, I was not as rich as I am now. At that time, I thought that it was not because I was rich that he invited me. Zhiyuan was richer than me.
Then I thought it might be because of my handsome appearance. Now that I have seen the seniors at the 100-person meeting, I gave up this idea.
Everyone's appearance is no worse than mine.
So I don’t know why I was invited to attend the 100-person meeting. I will have to ask President Li about it later.
In short, I am very happy to join this Chinese elite organization. As a child from a third-tier small city in China, I can go to America, go to New York, and come here to gather with everyone.
What I need to thank most is education. China’s basic education and America’s elite education gave me this opportunity.
Therefore, I personally donated 10 million U.S. dollars to establish a Committee of 100 Talent Award to specifically reward international students in China.
These talents will also promote exchanges between China and America in the future and make their own contributions to the friendly development of the two countries.
I also hope to see talents sponsored by me join the Committee of 100 in the future. "
After Zhou Xin finished speaking, the audience burst into warm applause.
The Committee of 100 Talent Award was originally established by the Committee of 100 in 2005.
However, for this award organized by the Committee of 100, the award criteria is not academic performance, but in addition to outstanding professional performance, enthusiasm for public welfare, and leadership potential such as ideological power, leadership and innovation.
Can make positive contributions to the friendship between China and America, as well as world peace.
With this standard, it goes without saying that those who can win this award in the end need not say more.
Because of Zhou Xin's participation, the level of the entire dinner has been raised to a higher level. Originally, it was only the deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, but now it is the director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council.
He said some high-sounding words, which basically praised the Committee of 100, then praised Zhou Xin's achievements, and then hoped that the Committee of 100 could play a greater role.
Not much nutrition.
Finally, I.M. Pei spoke:
“I am already eighty-two years old, and I am very happy to see that the Committee of 100 established by me as a member of the founding team can be so dynamic at this age.
When Youyou, Xuelan, Jianxiong, Li Qian and others first established the Committee of 100 during a special period, I hoped that the Committee of 100 could represent the opinions of all Chinese Americans and make our voices heard.
At that time, I did not think that we would be able to go through ten years, because as a non-political group with a clear political stance, it is actually not easy for the Committee of 100 to survive.
Fortunately, the relationship between China and Amerikan is getting better day by day, and I think there is also a small contribution from the Committee of 100.
We hope that China and America can coexist peacefully on the basis of mutual understanding.
Looking at it now, we did a good job on the first point.
The other thing is to train the next generation of leaders. Zhou Xin’s joining today gives me hope.
Zhou Xin is much better than us old guys, and his huge achievements in the business field are beyond the imagination of an old man like me.
With his ability and social resources at his disposal, he is bound to become one of the leaders of the next generation of Chinese groups.
So when Xihui told me that Zhou Xin was willing to join the Committee of 100, I was very happy and excited, because he meant the new blood of our Committee of 100.
It also means that our organization is also attractive to elites like Zhou Xin, and we are doing pretty well.
I think the Committee of 100 Talent Award just mentioned by Zhou Xin is a very good idea. We should encourage more young Chinese people to come to America to study abroad and have a look around.
This will help increase exchanges between young people of the two countries and enhance people-to-people friendship.
It seems that Zhou Xin and our Committee of 100 have similar ideas.
In the future, we also hope to continue to implement our concepts better and further promote exchanges and mutual trust between Amerikan and China. "
Zhou Xin only had one feeling after listening to this, and that was that it was really not easy for the other party to think so clearly and be in a good state of mind even though he was over eighty years old.
Eighty is a hurdle. After eighty, everything from physical function to logical thinking will decline significantly.
After Ieoh Ming Pei finished speaking about stepping down, he walked over to Zhou Xin and shook hands with him:
"Young man, well done, the future is yours."
Li Xihui supported I.M. Pei and said from the side: "Yes, after meeting Zhou Xin, I felt that I was older.
He must step down as president of the Committee of 100 as soon as possible and make way for young people. "
Two chapters and 6,000 words, I’m struggling and asking for monthly votes!
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