Author: SACU Events

SACU’s Manchester Event: China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Connecting the World

SACU held a hugely successful event in Manchester – China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Connecting the World: SACU Panel Discussion – on Friday 20 April 2018, 3.00-6.00pm at the Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre, University of Manchester.  The event consisted of short presentations by four expert speakers followed by a panel discussion of the scope and impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on the countries directly involved and the world in general. The panel was composed of: Professor Michael Wood of the University of Manchester (historian, writer, broadcaster and presenter of the BBC four-part series, ‘The Story of China’). Shao Zheng, […]

Zoe Reed Speaks at Charity Auction

Our Chair, Zoë Reed, attended a charity auction organised by the Sino-British Cultural Exchange Society on Sunday 11th March 2018 in favour of the Ensuring We Remember Campaign to erect a memorial to the 96,000 Chinese Labour Corps involved in WW1. She was invited to speak at the opening and said she was delighted to bring greetings from SACU to such an important Campaign chaired by Steve Lau. The event was conducted in Chinese to a Chinese audience and so our Chair made a special mention of SACU’s aim now to particularly invite Chinese people into membership. She explained that SACU […]