Ningbo Hosts Camellia Prize 2011 Award Ceremony By Elaine Chan

Hosted by the Ningbo Munic ipa l Government, the award ceremony for Camellia Prize 2011 was held on 14th

July 2011 at the Sheraton Ningbo Hotel.

Eight foreign experts won the Camellia Prize and 12 foreign experts won the Camellia Commemoration Prize.

Ningbo’s Vice Mayor, Mr Wang Renzhou delivered a speech at the ceremony and awarded the prizes to the Camellia Prize winners. In the Vice Mayor’s speech, he said, ‘We are very happy to be here at the Camellia Prize 2011 Award Ceremony. On behalf of the Ningbo government, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all our foreign expert winners and to express our deep respect and convey my well wishes to all the foreign experts in Ningbo.’

‘Ningbo is an international port city. In 2010, our city achieved a GDP of RMB 512.6 billion, up 12.4% from the previous year, and the GDP per capita was over USD 10,000, import and export volume was USD 82.9

billion, up 36.3% from the previous year. The port cargo throughput was 410 million tons and container throughput was 13 million TEU.

‘These achievements have a lot to do with the hard work and support from the foreign experts in Ningbo. The foreign experts who have won this award work very hard in the fields of enterprise production, education and scientific research. They have brought with them advanced science and technology management , sk i l l s and knowledge , and have played a big part in Ningbo’s modernisation construction. They are the connection between Ningbo and the world. With this, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone and I wish you better and greater achievements in the future.

‘This year is the first year of the 12th Five-year Plan, and also a key year for us to continue opening up to the outside world and speed up our development process. Future development of Ningbo requires science, technology, innovation and talented people.

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We sincerely welcome more foreign experts to Ningbo. We want to work together with you to create a better tomorrow. Finally, I would like to wish all foreign experts a happy life in Ningbo, and a successful career ahead.’

Also present at the ceremony to award prizes to the Camellia Commemoration Prize winners were officials from the Ningbo Foreign Affairs Office, Ningbo Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation Bureau, Ningbo Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Ningbo Education Bureau and Ningbo Public Security Bureau. Camellia is the city flower of Ningbo. The Camellia Prize, founded by the Ningbo Municipal People's Government in 1996, is awarded to outstanding foreign experts working in Ningbo, in appreciation for their contributions to Ningbo's social and economic development, construction and friendly cooperation.

Over the past 15 years, a total of 98 foreign experts have been awarded the Camellia

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Prize and 211 have been awarded the Camellia Commemoration Prize.

Addressing the audience of representatives of the Ningbo Municipal Government, Camellia Prize and Camellia Commemoration Prize winners, their family members and members of the press, Camell ia Prize winner Mr Helge Hareland, CFO of NIP Co. Ltd, shared in his speech, ‘My personal hope for the future is two-fold. I hope that Ningbo enters into a phase where Chinese companies start hiring foreign experts, in the same fashion as foreign companies have hired Chinese experts. After all, if you intend to grow beyond the boundaries of your own country, you need to acquire language, culture and networking competences.

‘While all focus has been on foreign males, most people tend to forget that behind every foreign male expert, there is a well educated, knowledgeable and professionally- experienced wife or partner. It is my hope that we will see more and more foreign female experts getting involved in the development of Ningbo.’

Camellia Prize 2011 Winners: Mr Helge Hareland (Norway), CFO of NIP Co. Ltd.Mr Enr ico Bonci ( I ta ly) , Assistant General Manager of Ningbo Consinee Woolen Textile Co. Ltd. Mr Motoyoshi Trira (Japan), Technical Manager of Ningbo Veken Screens Co. Ltd.Mr Alan Anthony Garner (Bri tain), General Manager of North America Corporate, Ningbo Sheng Long Group Co. Ltd.Professor Earl Gordon Hotrum (Canada), Teacher at Ningbo UniversityMr Mamoru Adachi (Japan), General Manager of Takedalace China Co. Ltd. Mr Zhu Ye Jun j ie (Spain) , Board Chairman of Industrias Tecno Catalunya (Ningbo) Co. Ltd.Mr. Takahashi Masaaki (Japan), Teacher at Ningbo Foreign Affairs School

Camellia Commemoration Prize 2011 Winners: Mr Eiju Zembayashi (Japan), General Manager of Ningbo Mitsubishi Chemical Co. Ltd.Mr. Roger Chen (Canada), General Manager of Ningbo Jiada Specialty Metals Ltd.Mr Ch r i s tophe r Denn i s Qu insee (Australia), Teacher at Zhejiang Business Technology InstituteMr Ken Chen (USA), General Manager of Olymtech (Ningbo) Co. Ltd.Mr Israel Holby (USA), Assistant General Manager of Ningbo Cinemount Design and Manufacturing Co. Ltd.Mr Sean Robert Ayton (Ireland), Teacher at Zhejiang Wanli UniversityMr Oguzhan Oktan, Senior Manager of Cimtas (Ningbo) Steel Processing Co. Ltd.Mr Kim So-Bok, Quality Engineer and Technical Consultant to Ningbo Peiyuan Automobile Parts Manufacture Co. Ltd.Mr Marcus Huang, Technical Project Superv isor o f N ingbo Hua X iang Electronic Co. Ltd.Mr Robert James Lloyd, Overseas Affairs Manager of Zhejiang Jiulong International Logistics Co. Ltd.Mr Kuan-Lan Wang, Chief Technical Off icer of Soft foundry Technology (Ningbo) Co. Ltd.Mr Michael Charles Milam, Teacher at Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University

Photographs contributed by: Ningbo Foreign Affairs Office

Vice Mayor Mr Wang Renzhou and Mr Helge Hareland

副市长王仁洲与海格 .贺兰诺先生

Vice Mayor Mr Wang Renzhou and Mr Zhu Ye Junjie

副市长王仁洲与朱叶俊杰先生

宁波市举办 2011 年茶花奖颁奖典礼作者：陈芳宜

2011 年 7 月 14 日，宁波市政府在东港喜

来登酒店举行了 2011 年“茶花奖”颁奖

典礼。

8 名外国专家荣获“茶花奖”，12 名外国专家

荣获“茶花纪念奖”。

副市长王仁洲在典礼上致辞并为茶花奖获奖者

颁发证书。在致辞中，王副市长说道：“今天，

我们怀着十分喜悦的心情共同参加 2011 年茶

花奖颁奖典礼。在此，我谨代表宁波市人民政

府向获奖的各位外国专家表示热烈的祝贺！并

借此机会，向所有在甬外国专家表示崇高的敬

意，向外国专家家属表示亲切的问候！”

“宁波市一个国际化的港口城市。过去的

2010 年，我市实现 GDP 5126 亿元，同比增长

12.4%，人均 GDP 超过 1万美元，外贸进出口

总额 829 亿美元，增长 36.3％。港口货物吞

吐量4.1亿吨，集装箱吞吐量1300万标箱。”

“这些成绩的取得来之不易，与在甬外国专家

的辛勤工作和大力支持密不可分。获奖的外国

专家长期工作在企业生产或教育科研一线，你

们为宁波的现代化建设带来了先进的科学技

术、科学的管理方法和优秀的文化成果，是宁

波与世界各国人民友好交往的使者。在此，我

向你们表示衷心的感谢！并祝愿你们在今后的

工作中，取得更加辉煌的业绩。”

“今年是“十二五”规划的起步之年，也是我

们不断深化对外开放、加快转变发展方式的关

键之年。宁波的发展需要科技，需要创新，更

需要人才。我们真诚欢迎更多的外国专家来甬

工作、创业。我们愿与你们一起，共同创造更

加美好的明天 !”

此外，出席颁奖典礼并为茶花纪念奖获得者颁

奖的还有来自市外事办、市外经贸局、市教育

局、市人力资源和社会保障局、市公安局出入

境管理局的相关负责人。

茶花是宁波的市花。茶花奖是宁波市政府在

1996 年设立，为表彰对宁波经济建设和社会

发展作出突出贡献的外国专家、促进我市对外

经济、科技、文化、教育等领域的交流和合作

而设立的奖项。

宁波市已举行了十六届“茶花奖”颁奖活动，

共向 98 位在甬工作的外国专家进行了表彰，

并授予了“茶花（荣誉）奖”。另有 211 人获

茶花纪念奖。

“茶花奖”得主之一的宁波北欧工业园区管理

有限公司首席财务官海格 . 贺兰诺在面对市政

府代表、“茶花奖”和“茶花纪念奖”得主及

其家人以及媒体朋友们的讲话中说道：“我个

人对未来的期待有两方面：首先，我希望中资

企业也能开始聘用外籍专家，就像外资企业聘

用中国专家一样，

如果这些企业希望能够跨越国界发展就需要克

服语言、文化和人际网络等方面的竞争。其次，

当所有的焦点都集中在这些外籍专家身上时，

大多数人也许都会忘记在这些男性专家的背后

都有一个受过良好教育、见多识广并且有丰富

专业知识的妻子或者女友。

我希望未来会有越来越多的外籍女性专家参与

到宁波的发展中来。”

获得2011年“茶花奖”的外国专家：

宁波北欧工业园区管理有限公司

首席财务官

海格 .贺兰诺（挪威籍）

宁波康赛妮毛绒制品有限公司副总经理

埃瑞克 .邦齐（意大利籍）

宁波维科丝网有限公司技术部经理元吉平

（日本籍）

宁波圣龙（集团）北美公司总经理

艾伦 .加纳（英国籍）

宁波大学教师厄尔 .高登 .赫特伦姆

（加拿大籍）

宁波武田纺织有限公司总经理足立守

（日本籍）

加泰罗尼亚洁具（宁波）有限公司董事长

朱叶俊杰（西班牙籍）

宁波外事学校教师高桥昌明（日本籍）。

获得 2011 年“茶花纪念奖”的外国专家：

宁波三菱化学有限公司总经理善林永寿

（日本籍）

宁波加达特种金属有限公司总经理陈卫国

（加拿大籍）

浙江工商职业技术学院教师昆斯 .格瑞斯

（澳大利亚籍）

奥林网络科技（宁波）有限公司

总经理陈震洲（美国籍）

宁波西尼液晶支架制造有限公司副总经理

瑟烈 .赫尔比（美国籍）

浙江万里学院教师肖恩 .罗伯特 .艾顿

（爱尔兰籍）

庆达西（宁波）钢构制造有限公司高级经

理奥桑（土耳其籍）

宁波培源汽车配件制造有限公司品质工程

师及技术顾问金召福（韩国籍）

宁波华翔电子股份有限公司技术项目总监

黄远灏（德国籍）

浙江九龙国际物流有限公司海外部经理

罗伯特 .雅梅斯 .劳埃德（美国籍）

软铸通信科技（宁波）有限公司技术长王

观岚（美国籍）

浙江大学宁波理工学院教师迈克尔 . 米莱

（美国籍）。

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图片来源 :宁波市人民政府外事办公室 Ms Fu Ying, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs 外交部副部长傅莹女士

Vice Mayor Mr Wang Renzhou 副市长王仁洲先生

Mr Helge Hareland海格 .贺兰诺先生

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