“China has a long history and 40 years should be not a long time. I think these 40 years is just a warm-up for China and major achievements are ahead.” said Darbinyan Hrayr, an Armenian expert from Shanghai Kunjek, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Germany-based KUNJEK WERKZEUGE GmbH. As the R&D director of the subsidiary company, Darbinyan started working in Shanghai in 2001 and has witnessed the development of “Made in Shanghai” over these 17 years.
He was born in 1950 in the city of Gifu, the only place with a name of Chinese origin in Japan. In 1972, China and Japan normalized their diplomatic relations and when graduation approached, he desired to be involved in China-related jobs. So he joined Mitsui & Co, an integrated Japanese commercial firm. In 1979, he came to China among the first batch of exchange students of Mitsui & Co. In 1995, he came to Shanghai as the General Manager of Mitsui & Co Shanghai and later received two Magnolia Awards. He came back to Shanghai as the General Manager of the Shanghai World Financial Center in 2014 and was granted a permanent residence permit before he moved back to Japan. He is Hideyuki Hoshiya, a Japanese with deep ties to China.
Founded in 2011, More Than Aware is a charity organization started by a group of expat women here in Shanghai. More than Aware focuses on lifestyle prevention and the recovery of breast cancers and encourages people to turn awareness into action.The annual Family Fun Run held at Century Park in Pudong is the largest charity activity organized by foreigners in Shanghai.
“Starting from 2006, I visit Shanghai every year because of the China-Japan-Korea Children’s Painting Exhibition. Each time I come here, I am impressed by the speed of Shanghai’s development,” said Yukari Tsuru at the opening ceremony of the sixth China-Japan-Korea Children’s Painting Exhibition hosted by Bellpo Organization. As president of the organization, Yukari had an interview with Eastday.com.
Having been in China for three decades, Noyan Rona, who is known as a “Foreign Lei Feng” in Shanghai, cherishes his “exclusive memory” of China’s reform and opening up. From a young foreign student to a warm-hearted Shanghai resident, he shows us his Chinese heart and his love for Shanghai.
Linda Tsao Yang, Chairwoman Emeritus of Asian Corporate Governance Association, was born in Shanghai, China, and immigrated to the U.S in 1946. From 1993 to 1999, she was the U.S. Ambassador and Executive Director to the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank in Manila.