U.S. Co. Awarded for Supporting U.S. Volunteers to Work in ChinaThe CEO of the US-based Brunswick Corporation Peter Larson has been awarded the Marco Polo Prize, an award for American businessmen supporting American volunteers to work in China.The award was initiated by the China Project of the Volunteers of America, a project that dispatches about 30 volunteers to work in China every year in areas such as finance, securities, auditing, science research, medicine, agriculture, industry, education, and business. A total of 830,000 volunteers from more than 50 countries came to work in China between 1978 and 1999, according to Yang Hanyan, deputy director of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. Leading officials of more than ten American corporations have been awarded the Marco Polo Prize during the past ten years as a recognition of their active support to the China Project of the Volunteers of America. |
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