Major Milestones

  • 2011
    China National Children’s Center agreed to establish an exhibit to recognize the contribution of the Institute’s CAEP program.
    Musicians sponsored by CAEP will have a “Saxophone Choir” concert at the CNCC this summer.
    138 Spring Bud girls enrolled in 4-year colleges; another 200 completed vocational training (mostly in health care).
  • 2010
    Ribbon cutting for the Shaanxi “Green School” funded and designed by Institute volunteers in response to the Sichuan earthquake.
    High school graduation of our Spring Bud girls who we have supported since 2001.
  • 2009
    Linking of China’s youth environmental movement with counterparts in the U.S. to attend PowerShift 2009.
  • 2008
    Launch of a new microfinance initiative in a rural area of Shaanxi province to stimulate entrepreneurship as a way to alleviate poverty.
    Co-Sponsor 2 US-China Green Energy conferences in San Francisco and Beijing, a first in bringing together leading clean energy specialists from business, government, and academia from both the U.S. and China.
  • 2007
    1,000 middle school girls from rural Shaanxi complete six years of education sponsored by The 1990 Institute Dragon Fund and travel to An Kang and Shan Luo for graduation ceremonies; 400 will go on to key senior high schools and vocational schools.
    Co-sponsored Community Mural Painting Festival in Beijing with China National Children’s Center on the "Beijing Green Olympics Spirit" emphasizing Chinese culture, environmental concerns, the body and mind in sports, and shared international joy in competition.
    Completed of a research project: "The Mismatch in Local Government Finance in China" jointly with a Chinese Academy of Social Sciences team.
  • 2006
    Launched the “Magic Moments” initiative, which is a mechanism that will allow American and Chinese students to visit each other and increase cross-cultural understanding through a focus on friendship, art, and music.
  • 2005
    The success of the Dragon Fund Spring Bud program inspired us to expand and launch the Peony Fund, sponsoring the elementary education of 700 rural girls outside Xi’an.
    The Children, Art and the Environment project sponsored a group of 17 Chinese young artists, aged 7 to 17, and three teachers, for a trip called “Paint California’s Environment.” The students toured various environmentally significant California sites and had joint art programs with American students.
  • 2004
    In May, a conference on state-owned enterprise governance reform in China held in Shanghai, co-sponsored by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. The Institute contributed six papers to the conference.
    As an extension of the Children’s Art and the Environment Project, two C2C-C2C (Children to Children-Connecting 2 Countries) trips were conducted to explore continuing cross-cultural visits for maturing middle school students from USA and China.
    The Dragon Fund Spring Bud project successfully completed Phase II fundraising which enabled 1,000 Chinese girls in Ankang and Shangluo, Shaanxi to continue their studies through middle school.
  • 2003
    Established a research fellowship with the Overseas Young Chinese Forum and awarded two Chinese scholars a grant to study rural taxation and income disparity in China.
    A “Fly the Child’s Hope” exhibit opened at Coyote Point Museum in San Mateo, California, starting a two-year tour of Chinese Children’s Art on the Environment in major museums in the U.S.
  • 2002
    Submitted a policy paper on pension reform to the State Council in China. Organized a symposium in San Francisco on China’s entry into the WTO.
    Launched nationwide children’s art on the environment contest in China in cooperation with China’s State Environmental Protection Agency, culminating in a gala award ceremony in October in Beijing.
  • 2001
    The Dragon Fund established in April to help educate girls and train women in poor regions of China.
  • 2000
    Conference in SF, co-sponsored by All-China Women’s Federation, on women’s leadership in sustainable growth.
  • 1999
    Publication of Fiscal Policy in China. Presented paper on China’s banking reform at World Bank conference in DC.
  • 1997
    Launched Phase III to broaden the Institute’s scope of activities to include direct-action projects.
  • 1996
    Invited to assist the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress in organizing and publishing a study of China’s economic future and implications to U.S. policy. A nationwide essay contest on social ethics in China culminated in a conference in Shanghai to confer awards to the top 10 winners. Publication of China’s Ongoing Agricultural Reform.
  • 1995
    Publication of the Institute’s second major book, Foreign Business Law in China, followed by conferences in San Francisco in March and Beijing in April.
  • 1994
    Conference on Bank Supervision and Bank Management in Nanjing, co-sponsored by the Institute with the People’s Bank of China, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Bank of America.
  • 1993
    Publication of China’s Economic Reform. Institute Chairman, C.B. Sung, presented research results to President Jiang Zemin at a conference in the People’s Great Hall. Launched Phase II research on six areas of economic reform in China
  • 1992
    Conferences in December in Shanghai and Beijing presented preliminary results of Phase I research.
  • 1991
    The Institute published the first of its Issue Papers, a series of essays on economic and social policy issues in China.
  • 1990
    Inaugural Year. Conference in San Francisco began Phase I research by a 20-scholar team to overview economic reform in China.