In 1992, Yang Xiangzhong served as the President of the "China-Cornell Fellowship Program," which is the predecessor of today's "China Bridges International" (CBI), consisting of a spectrum of fellowship programs to support the best qualified and most highly committed scientists, educators, and engineers in the United States and other western countries to develop collaborative projects of scientific research, teaching, and technology transfer with Chinese scientists.
As president, Yang successively collected US$2 million for the foundation. To date, the foundation has received more than 200 visiting delegations from China and has subsidized more than 200 scholars as well as students. CBI-supported projects have been very effective and productive, and have been highly appraised in both the hosting of Chinese participants and the participating western universities and institutions.
"The overseas scholars and students makes up a very big reservoir of talented people; therefore, we must do something to attract these people to return to the Chinese homeland to serve the country," Yang said.
Yang Xiangzhong believes that all Chinese people, wherever they are in the world, love their motherland. Through his "bridge," the dream of watering the flowers of China will no longer be merely in Chinese people's mind.
Author:Ivana
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