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National Committee on US-China Relations
Mission: "The National Committee on United States-China Relations promotes understanding and cooperation between the United States and Greater China in the belief that sound and productive Sino-American relations serve vital American and world interests."
In China since: 1966
Annual China budget: $1,000,000
International Contact:
President
Stephen A. Orlins
Vice President
Jan Carol Berris
Vice President for Administration
Rosalind Daly
Program Officer
Meredith Champlin
Program Assistant
Dan Greenberg
Administrative Manager
Millicent Cavanaugh
Executive Assistant
Timothy Costello
71 West 23rd Street, Suite 1901 New York, NY 10010
United States
Tel: +1 212 645 9677
Fax: +1 212 645 1695
Leading figures in the US business, religious, scholarly and civic communities established this independent, non-profit organisation in 1966 to serve as a channel for international communication at a time when there was very little contact between the United States and China. The Committee played an important role in maintaining contacts between the two countries prior to the 1979 normalisation of diplomatic relations – for example, by sponsoring the famous 1972 visit to the United States by the Chinese national table tennis team.
Since 1979, the Committee has arranged hundreds of study visits and exchange programmes for senior Chinese and American policy makers, and has organised dozens of seminars, symposia and conferences. Programmes have ranged across a very wide array of topics, from international relations and security to vocational education, and from market economy development to environment protection. Recent themes have included legal reform and the role of communications media.
As part of a consortium of American agencies that includes the Asia Foundation (see separate entry), the Committee is now working with the Ministry of Labour and Social Security and other provincial and local authorities on a four-year project to improve protection of workers rights. The Committee is facilitating technical assistance in legislative drafting and curriculum development for factory inspectors.
Each year since 2001, the Committee has brought together a select group of outstanding young professionals from the US and China to exchange views and experiences in a ‘Young Leaders Forum’ that alternates between the US and China. A similar, Student Leaders exchange programme began in 2004. This takes groups of outstanding students from China and the US to meet and spend time with counterparts in the other country.
In addition, the Committee now manages a teacher exchange programme, funded by the Freeman Foundation, which places Chinese secondary teachers in American schools, and American K-12 teachers in China.
NCUSCR’s total income in 2002 was USD 3.5 million. This came from membership fees (from more than 750 individual and 100 corporate members in the United States), grants from the US government (departments of Labour, Education and State), donations from individuals and grants from corporations and private foundations.
Links
http://www.ncuscr.org
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