BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Chinese media) -- A Chinese government magazine has started a
campaign to list the 15 most influential overseas specialists in the country's
development over the last three decades.
International Talent magazine, published by the State Administration of
Foreign Experts Affairs, has invited a panel of 38 judges to select the 15
experts from a short-list of 29 candidates.
The list includes Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei, who designed
the Fragrant Hill Hotel on the outskirts of Beijing and the Bank of China
building in Hong Kong in the 1980s, and the bank's Beijing headquarters in 1995.
In 2004, he designed the Chinese embassy in Washington D.C.
Also listed are Chinese American Nobel physics laureates Yang Chen-ning and
Lee Tsung-dao and China women's hockey coach Kim Chang-back, from the Republic
of Korea, who helped the team win silver at the Beijing Olympics.
The finalists are to be announced at the opening of an international talent
forum of the 2008 Conference on International Exchange of Professionals on Nov.
29 in Shenzhen.
The judging panel comprises experts from the China International Publishing
Group, China Personnel Newspaper, Beijing University, Shenzhen General Chamber
of Commerce, China Society for Research on International Exchange and Personnel
Development and senior experts with long experience of introducing overseas
talent to the mainland.
An organizing committee official said the move was aimed at raising
awareness of overseas experts. They would be appraised according to their
contributions and influence.
Most of the candidates were winners of the Friendship Award, the top honor
awarded by the Chinese government to foreign experts who make outstanding
contributions to China's economic construction and social development, and the
China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.
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