UK Ambassador to China
London, United Kingdom
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Great talking to violinist Lu Siqing 吕思清 on why cultural exchange in the performing arts matters
just before hosting the students of the Yehudi Menuhin Schools in the UK and Qingdao
the 1st of which he went to when he was 11, the 2nd of which he is now President
Daughter of the River is Hong Ying’s tough memoir of her childhood in Chongqing, which 30 years on she has now made into a film. The premiere in Beijing was a moving experience of memory and reconciliation - as worthwhile as, but very different from, the book
This is really hard to do!
Mastering fine motor skills is one of robotics’ toughest challenges
From China AI Town in Hangzhou yesterday
Healthy aging is a huge economic and social challenge for both 🇬🇧 and 🇨🇳
New 🇬🇧 Trade Commissioner @kate_harrisson and 🇨🇳’s Ministry of Civil Affairs signed a letter of intent on aging cooperation this week
🇨🇳 has 223 million aged 65+; for 🇬🇧 it’s 20% of our people
Congratulations to Zheng Qinwen on winning the 🎾 China Open Women’s finals tonight - 1st win for 🇨🇳 , and a superb match
@ChinaOpen #ChinaOpen
Conductor Dane Lam takes a bow after Saturday night’s imaginative Marriage of Figaro, at China National Opera House
London Philharmonic Orchestra have a long connection with China, since being - in 1973 - the 1st Western orchestra to play here since the founding of the PRC
🇬🇧 Chancellor @johnhealey_mp spoke to 🇨🇳 Vice Premier He Lifeng of China on Thursday 8/10
They reaffirmed the importance of UK-China ties across trade, investment and financial services, and committed to maintaining dialogue on mutual priorities
A key relationship
On 18/9, Great Wall of 🇨🇳 explorer William Lindesay (🇬🇧) exhibited some of the 1000’s of photographs taken along the length of the Wall in 1908 by Dr William Geil (🇺🇸) at my Residence in Beijing for the 1st time
This double discovery odyssey astonishes. See thread below
中英美
The new Yangzhou garden opening today at @RHSBridgewater in Salford, is
magical
the largest Chinese garden in Europe
that will attract attention from round the 🌍
Manchester - a city with a ten year plan; a home of innovation; and the largest Chinese community outside London
@greatermcr
Liverpool China Town is the oldest in Europe - a community has been here since the 1830s, in a cosmopolitan city that celebrates its ties with the world
And practicing T’ai chi in The Pagoda is the best…
@MetroMayorSteve
