This Saturday, the 100 will host a dinner at the Hyatt Hotel in New York.

Chairman Lee told me that it was a special entrance dinner to welcome me, and I would like to thank you in person if you attended. Zhou Xin said.

The thanks here are serious thanks, and the lawyers who can be partners in the Asia-Pacific region can't be provoked by Zhou Xin in any aspect.

Yang Yimei: "President Li also told me, I am sure that even if there is something important on that day, I will be there."

President Lee and I were saying that this dinner was going to welcome a heavyweight member of the 100-person association, who was the richest member in the history of the 100-person association. It will be difficult for any richer members to appear in the future.

I immediately guessed that it was you, you are the richest Chinese in the world, and you were introduced to me by Chairman Lee.

100 people will join me, and 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 business before, the most important thing to say was the company's legal affairs.

It's one after another.

Li Xihui didn't know that while Zhou Xin joined the 100 People's Association, he also had to set up his own door.

It is mainly the elites of the Committee of 100 who mainly focus on the humanities and social sciences, and have very little contact with science and engineering scholars.

And Yang Zhenning is almost eighty years old at this time, how can he have the energy to care about this.

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.

"10th Anniversary Celebration of the Committee of 100"

The Committee of 100 was established in 8*9, and this year is exactly the 10th anniversary.

Zhou Xin's momentum was flourishing, and Li Xihui simply did two things together, Zhou Xin's joining and the 10th anniversary of the 100 People's Association.

"The Committee of 100 is a well-known elite group of Chinese in Ameritiken, and has been committed to promoting the relationship between Americon and China for many years, as well as cross-strait exchanges.

A particularly positive role has been played in this process.

Today we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the 100-person club, and we are also celebrating the addition of a new member.

For a long time, the requirements of the Committee of 100 for members are Chinese Americans, and I and Mr. Pei, Mr. Yo-Yo Ma and other founding members, we have realized that this is not good in recent years.

The Committee of 100 is an elite Chinese group, an organization that promotes the relationship between Americon and China, but we only have Chinese Americans in this organization, and we lack Chinese voices.

The Chinese in China are also Chinese, so from this year onwards, we will have a Chinese elite every year, and today we are honored to invite Zhou Xin to join our 100 Club.

Mr. Pei was very happy when he learned that Zhou Xin was willing to join the 100 Club, and he said that Zhou Xin's willingness to join the 100 Club was not the glory of Zhou Xin, but the glory of the 100 Club.

If even a Chinese elite like Zhou Xin in the United States does not join the 100-member club, then how can the 100-member association be embarrassed to call itself an elite group?

Zhou Xincai has been here for a year and has already created several successful companies, which are well-known in Silicon Valley, Americon and even the world.

The first time I met Zhou Xin was at a dinner organized by Yang Zhiyuan, and Zhou Xin's first impression to me at that time was that he was young, too young.

Zhou Xin's youth, combined with his achievements, gave me a sense of unreality. At the time, Quora had not yet been sold to Time Warner for $74 billion.

If I had gone to see him now, I would have lost my ability to organize my language.

Putting aside external factors at the dinner, it is no exaggeration to describe Zhou Xin's conversation and opinions on things as elite.

He is always able to accurately grasp the essence of things and can give a preliminary solution. In the course of the conversation, I would forget his age, and even have the illusion that he was my elder.

Therefore, I am very happy to have such excellent newcomers join on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Committee of 100, and we also have a more complete organizational joining mechanism. ”

If it weren't for Zhou Xin, until 2020, the 100-member association would not have changed the admission criteria, that is, Chinese Americans.

Kai-Fu Lee, as the former vice president of the 100 Association, was withdrawn after he renounced his Ameriken citizenship.

The specific withdrawal process cannot be examined, but there is no Kai-Fu Lee from the official website of the 100 People Association in 2023.

Zhou Xin didn't know this, if Zhou Xin knew, he would definitely praise himself secretly for setting up another door.

After Li Xihui finished speaking, the audience burst into warm applause, and then Zhou Xin appeared on the stage.

The dinner of the 100-person party, whether it is the style of the dinner or the speeches of everyone in Chinese, gives Zhou Xin the illusion that this is not New York, this is Yanjing.

The background of the speech was bright red, and then it was written in Chinese and English: 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Committee of 100.

Flowers were placed on the podium, and in short, 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 school-age daughters in the audience were dazzled.

In addition to money, Zhou Xin's appearance is also handy, with a height of 1.8 meters combined with fair skin and angular facial features.

The only drawback was that he was a little thin and his face was too childish to support the suit he was wearing.

"Chairman Lee just said me so well that I was a little embarrassed to hear it in the audience.

I'm good for nothing but money. ”

After Zhou Xin's words were finished, there was a burst of laughter in the audience, and they were used to hearing official words on this occasion, and Zhou Xin's speech obviously made everyone feel refreshed.

"However, when President Li invited me to join the club, I was not as rich as I am now, and I thought that it was not because I was rich that I was invited, but because Zhiyuan was richer than me.

Then I wondered if it was because of my handsome appearance, but now that I saw the seniors at the 100-person meeting, I dispelled this idea again.

Everyone's appearance is no worse than mine.

So I don't know why I was invited to the 100-member meeting, and I'll have to ask President Lee when the meeting comes.

In short, I am very happy to join this Chinese elite organization, as a child from a third-tier small city in China, to be able to go to American, to New York, and to come here to gather with you.

What I need to thank most is education, Huaguo's basic education and America's elite education have given me this opportunity.

Therefore, I personally donated 10 million US dollars to set up a 100-member Talent Award to reward international students in China.

In the future, these talents will also promote exchanges between China and Ameriken and make their own contribution to the friendly development of the two countries.

I also hope to see the talents I have funded join the 100 Club in the future. ”

After Zhou Xin finished speaking, the audience burst into warm applause.

The 100-person Talent Award was originally established in 2005 by the 100-person Association.

However, the award criterion for this award is not academic performance, but in addition to outstanding professional performance, it needs to be enthusiastic about public welfare, and it must also have leadership potential such as ideology, leadership and innovation.

It can make a positive contribution to the friendship between China and Ameriken, as well as to world peace.

This kind of standard, it is needless to say that those who can get this award in the end.

Because of Zhou Xin's participation, the level of the entire dinner has been raised to a higher level, originally only the deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office participated, but now it has become the director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.

He said some high-sounding words, which was roughly to praise the 100 People Association, and then tout Zhou Xin's achievements again, and then hoped that the 100 People Association could play a greater role.

There isn't much nutrition.

Finally, I.M. Pei spoke:

"I am 82 years old, and I am very happy to see that I am a member of the founding team and that the 100-person association can be so energetic in my old age.

When I first established the Committee of 100 with Youyou, Xue Lan, Chien-shiung, Lu Qian and others during the special period, I hoped that the Committee of 100 would represent the views of all Chinese Americans and make our voices heard.

I didn't think at the time that we would be able to go through 10 years, because the 100 Society, as a non-political group with a clear political position, would not actually survive so easily.

Fortunately, the relationship between Huaguo and Ameriken is getting better and better, and I think there is also a small contribution from the Council of 100.

We hope that China and Ameriken can coexist peacefully on the basis of mutual understanding.

Now, the first point is that we did a good job.

The other is to train the next generation of leaders, and the addition of a new one today gives me hope.

Zhou Xin is much better than our old guys, and his great achievements in the business field are unimaginable to me as an old man.

With his ability and social resources, 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 100 Club, I was very happy and excited, because he meant the fresh blood of our 100 Club.

It also means that our organization is also attractive to elites like Zhou Xin, and we are doing quite well.

I think the 100 Talent Award mentioned by Zhou Xin just now is a very good idea, and we should encourage more Chinese young people to study abroad at Ameriken and take a look.

This is conducive to increasing exchanges between young people of the two countries and strengthening people-to-people friendship.

It seems that the ideas of Zhou Xin and our Association of 100 also coincide.

In the future, we hope to continue to put our philosophy into practice better and further promote exchanges and mutual trust between Americon and China. ”

Zhou Xin only had one feeling after listening to it, that is, the other party was in his eighties, his thinking was still so clear, and his mental state was also very good, it was really not easy.

Eighty is a hurdle, and after eighty, from physical function to logical thinking will decline significantly.

After Pei finished speaking, he stepped down from the stage, and deliberately walked to Zhou Xin's side to shake hands with him:

"Good job, young man, the future is yours."

Li Xihui hugged I.M. Pei and said on the side: "Yes, after meeting Zhou Xin, I feel that I am old.

You have to step down from the position of president of the Council of 100 as soon as possible, and give way to the young people. ”

Two chapters and 6,000 words, crawling and begging for a monthly pass!

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