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Today, more than ever, we are all called to charity and to love one another. At the dawn of the 21st century, our world is becoming more intimately interrelated. Whatever happens in one corner of the world impacts all of us. The September 11 tragedy and its aftermath serve as a monumental testimony to this fact. While science and technology lift up the spirit of mankind, epidemic diseases, such as AIDS, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, SARS, and other diseases, as well as human irrational hatred threaten to destroy our progress in the past centuries.
China Foundation, Inc., an American based charity organization with a global vision, seeks to enhance the global sense of charity and love through efforts to advance health, education, and quality of life, especially in the more deprived regions of America, Asia, China, and other areas. We believe every child has the right to realize his or her potentials and we strive to provide them that opportunity through our efforts. By initiating and coordinating global and local efforts, we strive to provide health and education services to the needy and the poor.
It has been our privilege to be able to help people in the deprived areas to improve their lives. I invite you to join us.
Sincerely Yours,
Jane H. Hu, Ph. D.
Chairman and CEO
China Foundation, Inc.
Mission
The China Foundation, in partnership with many governmental and non-governmental health agencies, the corporate world, and domestic and abroad community organizations, seeks to enhance the quality of life, through improving health and education, for those who live in the under-served regions, US domestic and abroad especially in Asia and China; it also strives to serve the American society by its American community outreach effort that seeks to promote the sense of charity and love through services and community care.
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Chairman
Gerald Ford - Former US
President
Honorary
Co-Chairs
Honorable Daniel Akaka - US
Senator (D - Hawaii)
Honorable Mitch McConnell - US
Senator (R - Kentucky)
Founder and
Chairman of the Board
Jane H. Hu, Ph.D. - Founder and Chairman, Board of Directors
 Dr. Jane Hu is currently serving as a Member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS under Bush Administration. |
Board of Advisors
Michael Butler - Chairman, Board of
Advisors
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Board of Directors and Officers
Bing Yao, Ph.D. - Vice President for Education, Chairman of the Education CommitteeConsultants:
Carl Taylor, M.D.International Representatives:
Xiang Qian Dai, M.D. - Chief Representative,
Beijing
Xiaoling Shi - Chief Representative,
Northwest Region of China
Victor Chao - Chief Representative,
Taiwan
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Washington DC Area Office
Jane H. Hu, Ph.D., Chairman
9216 Falls Chapel Way
Potomac, Maryland 20854, USA
| Phone: | 301 340 2065, 301 728 8650 |
| Email: | info@chinafoundation.net
education@chinafoundation.net health@chinafoundation.net |
The China Foundation Washington DC Representative Office
Mark Solomons, JD, LLM
800 Connecticut Ave., NW
5th Floor
Washington, DC 20006, USA
| Phone: | (202) 533-2361 |
| Email: | legal@chinafoundation.net |
Eastern Regional Office
Yuanli Liu, MD, Ph.D., Regional Director
79 Claflin Street
Belmont, MA 02478
| Phone: | 617 432 4623 |
| Email: | us-east@chinafoundation.net |
The China Branch Office
Herbert J. Barker, Ed.D., Vice President of China Branch
555 Nanchang Road, B 2002
Shanghai 200031, P.R. China
| Phone: | (86) (21) 5465-2904 |
| Mobile: | (86)1350-187-5103 |
| Email: | hbarker@chinafoundation1.org |
The China Foundation Beijing Representative
Xiang Qian Dai, MD
Beijing New World Eastern Medical Center
Level 5, New World Shopping Mall
3 Chong Wen Men Wai Street
Beijing, P. R. China 100062
| Phone: | (86) 1390 116 2499 (cell)
(86 10) 8421 4054 (evening) |
| Fax: | (86 10) 6708 5076 |
A. Plan to Establish an International Center for Human Development
The China Foundation has successfully initiated a plan to establish an International Center for Human Development in Beijing. This Center will be the product of the partnership among the China Foundation, the Ministry of Health of China, the Ministry of Education of China, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF/China, Tsinghua University, Harvard School of Public Health and other leading Chinese and US institutes and universities. This Center will conduct policy studies, develop trainings, and provide strategic advice to the Chinese government in various areas, especially in health care and education to relieve poverty of remote rural areas and urban migrant populations. The US regional offices of the International Center include California, Washington, D. C., Boston, and Texas.
According to the needs identified by the China Foundation and Tsinghua University, the International Center will work with international experts to interchange strategies and assist the Chinese Government to make policy and priority changes and reforms to relieve poverty and to foster progress. The target areas selected for policy studies and demonstration projects represent a comprehensive and strategic approach to solve urgent problems in China. The International Center will serve as a coordinating center for international and domestic efforts of HIV/AIDS prevention and care in China. The rapidly escalating AIDS epidemic in China has been identified as the most urgent needs of China at the present time. HIV/AIDS and other closely associated epidemic infectious diseases have devastating effects to aggravate poverty and suffering of rural and urban poor populations. The lack of health education and ignorance of disadvantaged populations is the major cause of epidemic spread of infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS in China.
To continue and strengthen our work in improving access to education by China's disadvantaged children, the Center will build primary schools in the remote rural, mountainous and desert areas of China, including Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai Provinces. The education component also includes developing distance training programs for physicians and teachers, developing health education curriculum (particularly on HIV/AIDS), and providing computer facilities and heating systems for the students. One of the new features of this project is to integrate health education and community outreach into the primary education, so that China can take a more proactive approach in controlling the AIDS epidemic and other public health problems by educating its people, especially the young and vulnerable.
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| Working Together: The Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine (later reorganized as The Chinese Center of Disease Control and Prevention) and Dr. Jane Hu signed the Memoranda of Cooperation in 2000. Dr. Carl Taylor (front left) is the legendary founder of UNICEF/China. |
B. Health Programs
In 1999, the China Foundation raised a total of $2,100,000 as matching funds to activate the World Bank's loan to the China for providing health care and building Health Centers in the poorest regions and counties in China. On behalf of the Chinese villagers and the China Foundation, we gratefully acknowledge the generous contributions of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Charles B. Wang Foundation for their significant contributions in China. The first $1,100,000 grant was distributed to 55 poor townships in Gansu, Shanxi and Qinghai to implement Phase I of the World Bank's Health project in China. The Phase I project of 55 Health Centers have been completed and functioning very well.
By December of 2001, the grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Charles B. Wang Foundation and the matching funds from the World Bank have supported 111 townships in Gansu, Shanxi, Henan, Guizhou, and Qinghai Provinces to build Health Centers. The grant from the Gates Foundation/World Bank supported 23 townships in Gansu, 44 in Shanxi, 7 in Henan, 11 in Guizhou, and 23 in Qinghai. The Wang Foundation/World Bank funds supported 3 pilot township clinics in Gansu. The phase II of the project has been completed. More than 5 million children and villagers benefit from the project and receive medical services from the Health Centers built. The Charles B. Wang Foundation awarded $250,000 as matching funds to build nine Health Centers in the HIV/AIDS epidemic counties of Henan Province. These Health Centers will be completed at the end of 2004. A total of 120 Health Centers will be completed and functioning to provide urgently needed health care in the poorest villages in China.
The progress report in August of 2002 made it very clear that our project has accomplished its objectives and reach its goals successfully and achieved great contribution and benefits to the local people who are in desperate need for health care:
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Made a Difference: Present and Before
The Central Hospital of Shawuan Township in Tang Chang County, Gansu Province (More Result Pictures) |
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C. International Think Tank Conferences
The International Conference on Health Care of Tomorrow's China (November, 1999) This Conference was held in Beijing, China and sponsored by the Atlantic Council of the United States and the China Foundation with the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine and the Chinese Health Economics Association. Deputy Minister Yin Da-quei of China's Ministry of Health and other senior Ministry officials attended the conference. Division Chiefs of the Ministry of Health moderated panel discussions and considered the reports and suggestions presented by international health care experts from the United States, France, and China. The policy suggestions and proposed programs from this Conference will help guide health care reform in China. Dr. Anli Shi, Director of Public Health and Secretary General of the Conference will organize a follow-up conference in the future. Dr. Yunguo Liu, Deputy Director of the Ministry's Foreign Loan Office and Dr. Janet Hohnen, Team Leader of the World Bank's Basic Health Services Project also attended this Conference. The findings and conclusions of the Conference emphasized the urgent needs to improve basic health services and health insurance systems in the poor rural areas of China.
International experts and official participants at the Opening Ceremony of the International Conference on Healthcare for Tomorrow's
China (Beijing, China).
The International Medical Forum on Infectious Disease in Taipei (May 24-25, 2002) was held in memory of Mr. K. T. Li who was responsible for the miraculous technological and economical development and successful public health insurance system in Taiwan. The visiting international experts in the prevention and treatments of hepatitis, tuberculosis and AIDS were very much impressed by the progress made in the control of hepatitis, tuberculosis and AIDS in Taiwan. This very successful Medical Forum was sponsored and organized by the China Foundation, the K. T. Li Foundation and the National Taiwan University Medical School in Taipei.
The International Medical Forum on Infectious Disease in Beijing (May 29-31, 2002) was sponsored and organized by the China Foundation, the Chinese Association of STD/AIDS Control and Prevention and the Eli Llly Company. More than 350 medical professionals and representatives from all provinces of China participated in this highly successful Forum with an objective to stimulate public health education and training of physicians and health care professionals in prevention and treatments of hepatitis, tuberculosis and AIDS in China.
The international panelists are professors and Departmental Chairman from Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Australia and other leading medical schools. The Chinese panelists are the best physician/scientists and leaders in the field of infectious disease in China. The Medical Forum in Beijing was most informative and stimulating with a significant impact at the time when AIDS epidemic is threatening and the problems of hepatitis and tuberculosis are aggravated by the spread of HIV/AIDS in rual villages. The vice Ministers of Health and other high ranking health officials attended the Medical Forum with great appreciation.
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| The International Medical Forum on Infectious Disease in Taipei | The International Medical Forum on Infectious Disease in Beijing |
D. Education Programs
The China Foundation's Education Programs currently focus on building and renovating elementary schools in the remote rural areas of the Northwest Region. Mr. Xiaoling Shi, Supervisor of Education of Pingliang City, Gansu Province, is the China Foundation Representative in the Northwest Region of China. This Region includes Gansu, Ningxia, Qinhai, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Tibet. Most people living in these rural areas belong to the Chinese minority races. Although the Northwest Region of China is the poorest and most underdeveloped area of China, it has rich natural resources such as oil and coal and has great potential for economic and social development. Implementing educational initiatives to build schools and to provide scholarships and educational materials will be the best investment to help local development and economic growth. Mr. Shi has planned and supervised several school projects in Gansu and Ningxia. The China Foundation and the local governments jointly supported these projects of building new schools for mostly minority children. The China Foundation's Education Committee is actively seeking funds to support more educational initiatives. Dr. and Mrs. Bing Yao of the China Foundation have made generous promise to donate one school per year in principle. The Foundation's efforts have achieved significant results.
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By the end of 2003, the Foundation has supported the construction of six schools. The schools are located in Gansu Province and in Ningxia Autonomous District. Dr. Bing Yao and Mrs. Bing Yao have donated generous funds to build two schools in Inner Mongolia and in Gansu.
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| Hundreds of children in this remote under-served area can come to this renovated safe campus to receive education. The Wei-Fan & Shih-Ching Hu Elemantary School was donated by Dr. Jane Hu in memory of her parents, Wei-Fan and Shih-Ching Hu. |
 The Xian Yang Elementary School library and garden under construction. |
 These smiling children are enjoying their new 4th grade classroom complete with new desks and new chairs at the Xian Yang Elementary School. |
The China Foundation thanks the following donors for contributing to the Education Program: Dr. Jane H. Hu; Dr. Bing Yao and Mrs Lien Yao; Freshfields Law Firm in Beijing; The World Bank; Mr. & Mrs.Dong Zhou & Ms. Connie Liao; Mark Solomons, Esq. & Jill Kent, JD; Seth Wu, Esq. and Elsie Wu; Drs. Catherine & Eric Chen; Dr. Teresa Lee Liu; Ms. Julia M. Liu; Mrs. Shih Fan Hsu and Cindy Chan. (More Result Pictures)
The China Foundation has received a donation for building an elementary school in Inner Mongolia by Dr. and Mrs. Bing Yao. The donation went to Zhi Lan Ji School at Ulate Zhong Banner, Bayannur League, Inner Mongolia. Zhi Lan Ji School is located near the western part of Inner Mongolia and is in a very poor area. With population and economic decline, several elementary and middle schools are combined to form this school. Existing school building were severely damaged during a 1997 earthquake and are unsafe to occupy. The new School buildings were completed in August,
2003. Dr. and Mrs. Bing Yao will donate one school every year, in principle, to complete the China Foundation's project to build more schools in the most under-served areas. These potential projects are located in five Provinces: Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia.
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E. Community Care Initiatives and Programs
Initiative on Community Care Network - In May 2003, in partnership with Asian American Fund, National Chinese American Association, and other community organizations in New York, Texas, California, and other states, the Chair Dr. Hu and the Executive Director of the Foundation Mr. Joseph Chen took an initiative to formulate the "Initiative on Community Care" with a mission to enhance the quality of the community health education and information. The network establishment will be announced by the end of June.
National Health Education and Prevention Initiative - There are nearly 12 million citizens and residents being Asian Pacific Americans in the United States. In May, 2003, in partnership with Asian American Christian Alliance, the Herald, and other national and local community organizations, the China Foundation took an initiative to form "National Health Education and Prevention Initiative on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B, and other diseases", particularly targeted Asian American community in America. Initiated at the end of 2003, this was the first such undertaking in the history of Asian American community. On the HIV/AIDS prevention, the approach is partially based on a Foundation's study about the success of Uganda, an African country which has implemented an effective strategy of prevention, emphasizing abstinence and marital fidelity, as well as the responsible use of condoms to prevent HIV transmission.
| Joseph Chen and Elizabeth Szu, a leader of Asian Americans in
California, organized very successful Press Conferences in Houston and Los Angeles
to raise public awareness of SARS and other infectious diseases in the
Asian American community. Joseph Chen hosted a Health Forum in Houston, Texas
on SARS, hepatitis B and other infectious diseases. The Health Forum was
very successful and well attended. The Harris County of Texas proclaimed
August 23, 2003, the date of the Health Forum, as the China Foundation Day to
honor this event and the contribution of the China Foundation because of
Joseph Chen's humanitarian efforts.
The Harris County of Texas proclaimed August 23, 2003, the date of the Health Forum, as the China Foundation Day. |
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F. Initiatives to Combat Global AIDS Epidemic
| In January, 2003, President George W. Bush officially appointed Dr. Jane Hu to be Presidential Advisory Council Member on HIV/AIDS. In January, 2003, Foundation Chair, Dr. Jane Hu, in partnership with her colleagues, adopted a policy recommendation to President George W. Bush regarding providing financial and technical assistance to combat AIDS epidemic in Asia, as well as other deprived areas such as Africa. | 
In January 2003, President George Bush appointed Dr. Jane Hu as Presidential Advisory Council Member on HIV/AIDS. Dr. Jane Hu is seen with US Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Claude Allen (right) in the Swear-in Ceremony. |
President Bush's Initiative on Combating HIV/AIDS -- In January, 2003, President George W. Bush went to the Congress to request a substantial financial and technical assistance to combat AIDS worldwide. In May, 2003, President George W. Bush announced that, due to an enthusiastic response from the Congress, he intend to sign into law to offer the US contribution of 15 billions to combat AIDS worldwide. Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in which the Foundation Chair Dr. Hu is a Member applauded President Bush and the US Congress for their compassionate efforts.
Joint Projects on HIV/AIDS Treatment and Prevention -- The China Foundation works closely with USCDC/China, China CDC, China's Ministry of Health, and the World Bank represented by the Foreign Loan Office at China's Ministry of Health on HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in recent years. In September 2004, Dr. Jane Hu invited the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to China to do a joint project for HIV testing, AIDS treatment and training of health professionals. Dr. Hu signed an official Memoranda of Cooperation with the Foreign Loan Office of China's Ministry of Health (representing the World Bank and the Ministry of Health), Shanxi Provincial Health Bureau and Yuncheng City Health Bureau and China's CDC. The Memoranda was to set up the HIV testing, AIDS treatment and training project in Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province where serious HIV/AIDS epidemic was caused by blood selling of poor villagers. Dr. Hu also met with Dr. Ray Yip, Director of USCDC/China who is a Senior Advisor on HIV/AIDS of the China Foundation and Dr. Zhang Fu-jie of China CDC. They both will be very cooperative and enthusiastic to work with us to make AIDS drugs available to children in China. Press Conference will be held at the US Senate on November 30, 2004 to launch the joint HIV/AIDS project. A Press Conference and Opening Ceremony will also be held in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province simultaneous on December 1 (International AIDS Day), 2004 hosted by Shanxi Provincial Health Bureau.
At the present time, there is no AIDS drugs available for children in China. Dr. Jane Hu is working with Dr. Ram Yogev, Senior Advisor on Pediatric AIDS and Dr. Ray Yip, Senior Advisor on HIV/AIDS of the China Foundation to design effective AIDS drug combinations for pediatric AIDS patients and for prevention of vertical transmission from Mother to Child. These drug combinations will be developed and clinically teated at the AIDS Treatment Center in Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province and in Yunan Province. The China Foundation is seeking humanitarian contributions of $100,000 per year for two years to make these drugs available in China. The Chinese Government will purchase generic drugs made in China and patented drugs to make AIDS drug combinations developed by the China Foundation for children in China. All children with AIDS will have effective drugs to save their lives in China as a result of our low cost project.
Currently, Yuncheng AIDS Treatment Center needs HIV testing kits for the spouses and children of blood sellers. The HIV testing kits for blood sellers are available and 17,000 blood sellers are being tested for HIV/AIDS at the present time. A sample testing of 1000 people showed that more than 38% of the blood sellers were infected by HIV/AIDS. It is estimated that $10,000 is needed to purchase HIV testing kits at discount price. Contributions and support are urgently needed to test women and children of the blood sellers' families.
Dr. Hu visited AIDS patients at the Warm Heart Home in Wenxi County, Shanxi Province. |
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