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Top; Opening ceremony,
first day, the convention is
formally opened by conven-
tion hosts, and BCI officers.
Left to right; Zhu Minyang,
Yangzhou Mayor; Glenis
Bebb, BCI Vice President; Mao
Weiming, Deputy Governor
of Jiangsu People’s Govern-
ment; Tom Elias, BCI President
and Xie Zhengyi, Secretary
of Yangzhou Municipal Party
Committee.

Middle column, top to bottom;
Dignitaries at the opening
ceremony
Zhao Qingquan, far left, and
other Yangzhou and Slender
West Lake officials who were
part of the planing team for
the convention.

For us, the BCI Board, the event started early on the
Wednesday morning with a Directors meeting at the
Grand Skylight Hotel. A great deal of ground was
covered during the day that can only lead to improve-
ments in what BCI offers to its membership. The day
included presentations for future BCI Conventions
with the 2014 event presented by Lindsay and Glenis
Bebb for the Gold Coast of Australia. For 2015, there
were two proposals with Chiara Padrini presenting for
Puebla, Mexico and a delegation headed by Ng Shin
Fat and Huang Jiuwei presenting on behalf of Guang-
zhou, China. In voting, the Board was unanimous in
favor of Guangzhou.
The event for 2016 is already agreed upon and is to be
staged in Vilnius, Lithuania whilst I.C. and Helen Su
along with Min Hsuan Lo for Chung Hwa, Taiwan,
presented the venue for 2017: A generous presentation
that had us all anticipating a great occasion.
Board members were elected for the coming term of
office and programs for new ventures were discussed
and voted upon. The day ended with an excellent buf-
fet dinner at the hotel.

Above, top to bottom; Welcom-
ing speeches were given by
Ding Chum, Standing Vice
Mayor of Yangzhou; Xie Zhen-
gyi, Secretary of Yangzhou
Municipal Party Committee;
Tom Elias, BCI President, Zhu Above; Zhao Qingquan with past BCI President I.C. Su and his wife
Minyang, Yangzhou Mayor. and BCI board member Helen Su.

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