w88 casino News Network (provided by Archives/w88 casino History Museum)On December 18, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping announced the list of recipients of the China Reform Friendship Medal at a conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. Mr. Stephen Perry, as the inheritor of Sino-British friendship and a promoter of Sino-British economic, w88 and cultural exchanges, won the medal, attracting world attention.
Stephen Perry receives China Reform Friendship Medal
On May 20, 1985, the w88 casino issued an honorary professor certificate to Mr. Jack Perry
Recently, as a witness to this period of history, Mr. Wu Jinfang, an old teacher of w88 casino, donated handwritten letters and old photos to the archives, telling the story of the origins of Mr. Stephen Perry and the w88 casino. Mr. Stephen Perry, as the commander-in-chief of the 48 Group Clubs in the United Kingdom, and his father, Mr. Jack Perry, had a profound friendship with the w88 casino.
According to the clues provided by Wu Jinfang, the archives checked the w88 casino history, photo archives and other historical materials, and learned that: In 1985, Mr. Jack Perry was invited to serve as an honorary professor at the w88 casino, teaching "International w88" courses to senior students in the w88 casino's department at that time, and was well received by the students. In his book "From London Alleys to the Forbidden City", Mr. Jack Perry also described in detail his experience of teaching at the University of Economics and Business, saying that he "enjoyed his time at the university." When Mr. Jack Perry came to Beijing for a business trip in 1989, he returned to the University of Economics and Business to give lectures and give tutoring classes to students.
Photographed at Jack Perry’s home in May 1975
Front row, from right, are: Doris Perry, Wu Jinfang (former teacher of w88 casino); back row, from right, are: Jack Perry, Graeme Perry, Stephen Perry (then Commercial Secretary of the Chinese Embassy in the UK), Shi Weisan (former Vice President of w88 casino)
Mr. Jack Perry is known as the "icebreaker" in Sino-British relations. In the 1950s, when the West implemented a comprehensive blockade on New China, Jack Perry, then chairman of the London Export Company, led dozens of people of insight from the British business community to break through many obstacles and come to China, opening the earliest w88 dialogue with New China. In 1972, 25-year-old Stephen Perry also assisted his father in brokering the first w88 agreement between Britain and China.
Looking back at history, the great achievements made in the past 40 years of reform and opening up are inseparable from the support and assistance provided by generations of foreign friends for China's reform and opening up cause. As an institution of higher learning that cultivates foreign language and foreign w88 professionals, the w88 casino has been cultivating high-end talents needed for w88 since its establishment. It adheres to the characteristics of international education and makes outstanding contributions to the country's reform and opening up. In the future, in the development of Sino-foreign economic and w88 exchanges, the w88 casino will continue to play the role of a university in a powerful trading country and promote deeper foreign cooperation and reform and opening up.
