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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 7<br />
Chance for student to connect with China<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
TIM MARSHALL has a strong<br />
interest in connecting people to<br />
China.<br />
So it is only fitting Canterbury<br />
University’s Global China Connection<br />
club president will travel<br />
to Washington next month to<br />
a global summit aiming to give<br />
young people business and cultural<br />
opportunities.<br />
The 20-year-old Halswell resident<br />
has been selected to attend<br />
the Global China Connection<br />
Summit in Washington, DC.<br />
The summit runs for two days<br />
and will include meeting with<br />
future leaders from US universities,<br />
speakers from Chinese and<br />
US humanitarian agencies and<br />
other members from GCC clubs<br />
around the world.<br />
It will be Mr Marshall’s first<br />
time travelling to the event, after<br />
being involved in the Global<br />
China Connection club for<br />
about two years before becoming<br />
president in November.<br />
“I think it is important because<br />
they (China) are trying to<br />
play a huge part in our economy<br />
and we have a lot of culture relations<br />
now.<br />
“We have a lot of students<br />
coming across now, I think it is<br />
important we all have all good<br />
SUCCESSFUL: With a strong interest in international relations,<br />
Halswell resident Tim Marshall is going to Washington next<br />
month for the Global China Connection Summit in Washington<br />
DC. <br />
strategies and ways to manage<br />
that and understand each other,”<br />
Mr Marshall said.<br />
He has just started his third<br />
year studying a Bachelor of<br />
Commerce at Canterbury University<br />
and is hoping to work in<br />
international relations when he<br />
graduates.<br />
“Helping New Zealand business<br />
connect with the Asian<br />
region or vice versa. I think it is<br />
really important we have those<br />
strong ties,” Mr Marshall said.<br />
He first became interested in<br />
China about two years ago while<br />
working with Chinese students<br />
on a language technology project.<br />
At the end of 2017, he<br />
travelled to Beijing for five<br />
weeks to research the culture<br />
and how to increase migration<br />
from China into Canterbury as<br />
part of the Canterbury Mayoral<br />
Forum.<br />
“It is on another level, it is an<br />
incredible place . . . the culture<br />
of the place is totally different,”<br />
Mr Marshall said.<br />
The key difference that stood<br />
out to him was the city having a<br />
rental bicycle system similar to<br />
the Lime scooters – where they<br />
can be picked up and dropped<br />
off from anywhere.<br />
Phones were also used as a<br />
form of payment instead of<br />
credit cards and the agriculture<br />
technology was very advanced,<br />
Mr Marshall said.<br />
He said while China and New<br />
Zealand’s political systems are<br />
different, the two countries have<br />
a good connection.<br />
Mr Marshall said businesses<br />
such as China Southern Airlines<br />
has been helpful to the city<br />
and sponsoring Canterbury<br />
University.<br />
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Have your say<br />
on Kyle Park<br />
CHANGES NEEDED to pave the<br />
way for a Hornby mega-facility<br />
to be built at Kyle Park have gone<br />
out for public consultation.<br />
The city council needs to<br />
make changes to the Kyle Park<br />
Management Plan and the area’s<br />
reserve classification in order for<br />
the Hornby Library, Customer<br />
Services and Leisure Centre to be<br />
built.<br />
The changes would apply to<br />
the north-east corner adjacent to<br />
Waterloo Rd and Smarts Rd —<br />
the part of the Kyle Park proposed<br />
for the new facility.<br />
The rest of the park will remain<br />
unaffected.<br />
It is after the Halswell-Hornby-<br />
Riccarton Community Board<br />
approved having the management<br />
plan go out for public<br />
consultation and to reclassify part<br />
of Kyle Park recently.<br />
The Hornby facility and<br />
associated car parks will make up<br />
four per cent of the total park area.<br />
The city council is proposing to<br />
reclassify 1.52ha, which is 17.5 per<br />
cent of the total part area<br />
•Consultation runs<br />
until April 15. To make a<br />
submission go to https://<br />
www.ccc.govt.nz and click on<br />
the city council’s Have Your<br />
Say page.<br />
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