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Enterpriser Meng Weimin Conferred
Honorary President of PKU
PKU NEWS 2006--10-26
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Peking University, Beijing, Oct. 26th, 2006: On the afternoon of October 20th, the
ceremony of Conferring Honorary Distinction of President of Peking University was
held in the north auditorium of PKU library, where Hong Kong enterpriser Meng
Weimin received the Distinction of Honorary President of PKU.
PKU President Xu Zhihong gave a speech, praising Mr. Meng for his outstanding
contributions to the mainland in the fields of education and medical & health
services. President Xu also thanked Mr. Meng for his support to PKU.
Min Weifang, Secretary of the Party Committee of PKU, conferred the Honorary
President Certificate to Mr. Meng, and gave him a special present, a work of Chinese
calligraphy written by a PKU student, which reads ―esteemed by the public and made
glory achievements‖. After the ceremony, Mr. Meng gave a passionate and
humorous speech and shared with students his experience of success as an
electronic apparatus magnate. He later answered questions raised by the audience.
Asked about the relationship between his language skills and his achievements in
enterprise circles, Mr. Meng, being good at English, French, Spanish, German and
Russian, taught the audience how to say ―thanks‖, ―hello‖, ―I love you‖ in different
languages, but emphasized that the mother tongue is the most important.
Mr. Meng was born in Hong Kong in 1927, and studied aeronautical engineering in
Beijing Tsinghua University in the 1940s. In 1953, he set up Xin Xing Enterprise in
Hong Kong and started his business on a shoestring. Now Xin Xing has become a
large consortium with about 2000 employees. Full of public spirit, Mr. Meng set up
Xin Xing Education and Charity Fund in 1984, in order to promote the development
of Education, Medical Care, Environment and so on in both Hong Kong and
mainland. In 1993, Mr. Meng donated one million US dollars in order to promote the
communications between Peking University and oversea academic organizations
and institutions. A minor planet was named after him by Chinese Academy of
Sciences in 1996. Recently, the government of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region conferred him Redbud Insignia for his contributions to the
development in Hong Kong and the mainland.
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