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The individuals who gathered around the table in the Corporation Room of Woodbridge Hall on April 21 included the top-ranking officials from the People's Republic of China and Yale University.
Seated at the head of the table were Chinese President Hu Jintao and Yale President Richard C. Levin, flanked by their wives, Liu Yongqing and Jane Levin, respectively.
In addition to Hu, the Chinese delegation State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan; Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Zhaoxing; Minister of the National Development and Reform Commission Ma Kai; Minister of Education Zhou Ji; Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai; Head of the Policy Planning Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCCPC) Wang Huning; Deputy Head of the CCCPC General Office Ling Jihua; Chinese Ambassador to the United States Zhou Wenzhong and his wife, Xie Shumin; Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi; and Head of President Hu Jintao's Office Chen Shiju.
Levin was joined at the ceremony by the Yale officers: Vice President and Provost Andrew Hamilton; Vice President and Secretary Linda Koch Lorimer; Vice President and General Counsel Dorothy Robinson; Vice President and Director of the Office of New Haven and State Affairs and Community Development Bruce Alexander; Vice President and Director of Development Inge Reichenbach; and Vice President and Director of Finance and Administration Shauna King. Also representing the University were Yale Corporation Senior Fellow Roland Betts; Yale Center for the Study of Globalization Director and former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo; China Law Center Director Paul Gewirtz; Yale Center for International and Area Studies Director Ian Shapiro; and Professor and Vice Chair of Genetics Tian Xu.
Also on hand were U.S. Ambassador to China Clark T. Randt '68 B.A.; Under Secretary to the United Nations Joseph Verner Reed '61 B.A.; Chief of Protocol at the U.S. State Department Donald B. Ensenat '68 B.A.; Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing John Thornton '80 M.P.P.M.; and Honorary Vice Chair and Director Emeritus of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations Maurice "Hank" Greenberg.
T H I S
A Meeting of Delegations
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Yale historian receives special Pulitzer citation
YCIAS officially renamed as MacMillan Center
New program offers employees back-up child care
President of China Visits Yale
Campus will welcome 18 new Yale World Fellows this fall
FACULTY HONORED
Eight faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Theoretical physicist Girvin named to National Academy of Sciences
Bresnick is new member of American Academy of Arts and Letters
Alexander, Galvani and Valis . . . winners of Guggenheim Fellowships
Historian Amanat selected as Carnegie Scholar
Former airline official to lead Yale's labor-management initiatives
Yale students reduce their energy use by 10%
Anatomy lessons: Faculty testing new method of teaching medical students
'Silent Spring' author is focus of Beinecke Library exhibit
Inaugural play festival features new works by Drama School students
Three students win Morris K. Udall Scholarships . . .
Joint library project to preserve historic sound recordings . . .
Yale Press and Yale Rep launch major competition for new dramatic works
Study to explore lasting effects of early health habits
Fund and lecture named for noted neurologist
In Memoriam: Dr. Thomas T. Amatruda Jr.
Yale Dramat's 'Side Show' tells true tale of vaudeville stars . . .
Weiswasser Lecture will explore HIV prevention in teens
Student Research Day will feature Farr Lecture and . . . presentations
Symposium will explore advances in chemistry and biology
Yale College juniors honored by Council of Masters
Learning the art of wrong thinking
New memorial lectureship at Cancer Center honors Dr. Paul Calebresi . . .
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