Global China Connection
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Global China Connection or GCC (Mandarin Chinese: 全球中国联接) is a student-run non-profit organization
that helps develop relationships between young people in China
and the international community. The network currently consists of over 60 chapters at universities around the world. GCC's main activities include hosting delegations of university students, coordinating community service initiatives, and hosting annual conferences in China and the United States
. Global China Connection was founded in 2008.
. Yet many other universities, such as Drexel University
, New York University
, and the University of North Carolina
, are represented within Central Management, which directs the Network and coordinates most of the organization's larger international events. Each chapter is governed by their own presidents and Executive Boards.
, Canada
, the Germany
, France
and United Arab Emirates
. GCC's chapters include Harvard University
, Princeton University
, Johns Hopkins University
, Yale University
, University of Pennsylvania
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, Wellesley College, Duke University
, Rice University
, University of Western Ontario
, McGill University
, Queen's University
.
Previous speakers at GCC conferences include:
Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley
Asia
Orville Schell
, director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S. China-Relations
Susan Shirk
, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and Columbia University professor
Bai Yansong
, CCTV anchor
The smaller forums are based on subjects such as China's sustainable development/environmental protection challenges; the stimulus packages passed by China and the U.S.; the current state of the American media; U.S.-China relations; and China's developing capital markets.
Tsinghua Student Government (February 2010). The delegation visited the global headquarters of J.P. Morgan Chase, a meeting with Barnard College
President Debora Spar
, and the PRC Consulate in New York. The delegates also visited GCC's Harvard and Drexel chapters.
Winter Delegation to China (January 2010). Included visits to the Beijing offices of UBS, J.P. Morgan Chase, Ernst & Young
, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Microsoft
, and Lenovo, among others. GCC delegates also met with the Western Returned Scholars Association, and the student government leaders of Peking University.
Media Literacy Initiative (October-November 2009). Journalism and political science students from Peking University visited the U.S. and toured the New York Times headquarters.
All-China Youth Federation, a branch of the Communist Youth League of China (April 2009). Visits included New York's landmarks and GCC branches in Harvard and Yale.
SICA (February 2009, New York)
Sample Initiatives
International Conferences - Harvard: GCC Harvard created two conference series in China. On June 26, 2010 it held a conference on Social Entrepreneurship in partnership with Peking University and on July 10, 2010 it held a conference on Corporate Social Responsibility in partnership with Sun Yat-Sen University. Past Participants includes Chief representative for Ashoka in China, the Chief representative of the Ford Foundation in China, the Chairman of China Vanke, and a leading Harvard Business School Professor among many others.
Delegation Reception – NYU/Columbia/Harvard: NYU, Harvard, and Columbia have been hosting the recent PKU and Tsinghua delegations, which the delegation also visited corporations including JP Morgan, BCG, and King & Wood, and institutions like the United Nations and the China Institute.
Internship Program – Cornell: GCC Cornell is working with GCC Central Management to establish an internship program in China for member students.
Focus Groups (FG) is an organized framework under which members can engage in conversations together about a particular topic, and create articles, reports, research papers to share within the network.
Non-profit organization
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that helps develop relationships between young people in China
China
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and the international community. The network currently consists of over 60 chapters at universities around the world. GCC's main activities include hosting delegations of university students, coordinating community service initiatives, and hosting annual conferences in China and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Global China Connection was founded in 2008.
Organization
GCC's structure is divided into two components: GCC Management and Chapter Network. Majority of GCC Central's members are students at Columbia UniversityColumbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. Yet many other universities, such as Drexel University
Drexel University
Drexel University is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist. Drexel offers 70 full-time undergraduate programs and accelerated degrees...
, New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, and the University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Chartered in 1789, the University of North Carolina was one of the first public universities in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century...
, are represented within Central Management, which directs the Network and coordinates most of the organization's larger international events. Each chapter is governed by their own presidents and Executive Boards.
Network
The GCC network currently consist of over 60 chapters at universities internationally including: the United StatesUnited States
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, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, the Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...
. GCC's chapters include Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, Wellesley College, Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, Rice University
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
, University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...
, McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
, Queen's University
Queen's University
Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
.
Events
GCC events connects companies, social organizations, and individuals through annual conferences as well as smaller scale forums. The organization hosts two major conferences each year, generally in New York City (spring) and Beijing (summer). Conferences contain discussion on subjects such as politics, business, journalism, and culture related to China.Previous speakers at GCC conferences include:
Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
Asia
Orville Schell
Orville Schell
Orville Hickock Schell III is an activist and writer working on China, and is the Arthus Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York...
, director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S. China-Relations
Susan Shirk
Susan Shirk
Susan L. Shirk is an expert on Chinese politics and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State during the Clinton administration. She was in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs . She is currently a professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the...
, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and Columbia University professor
Bai Yansong
Bai Yansong
Bai Yansong is a prominent Chinese news anchor and journalist affiliated with China Central Television, China's national television network, and is known for his articulate and confident style. He was born in Inner Mongolia, China and is an ethnic Mongol. Bai was one of CCTV's major news anchors...
, CCTV anchor
The smaller forums are based on subjects such as China's sustainable development/environmental protection challenges; the stimulus packages passed by China and the U.S.; the current state of the American media; U.S.-China relations; and China's developing capital markets.
Delegations
GCC hosts and lead numerous student delegations in both the United States and China. GCC generally collaborates with student association partners such as the Western Returned Scholars Association, the Students International Communication Association of Peking University (SICA), as well as student government groups, in managing these events. A chronology of GCC delegations follows below.Tsinghua Student Government (February 2010). The delegation visited the global headquarters of J.P. Morgan Chase, a meeting with Barnard College
Barnard College
Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...
President Debora Spar
Debora Spar
Debora L. Spar is the current President of Barnard College, a liberal arts college for women affiliated with Columbia University. As President of Barnard, she is also an academic dean within the university...
, and the PRC Consulate in New York. The delegates also visited GCC's Harvard and Drexel chapters.
Winter Delegation to China (January 2010). Included visits to the Beijing offices of UBS, J.P. Morgan Chase, Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young is one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms, along with Deloitte, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers ....
, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
, and Lenovo, among others. GCC delegates also met with the Western Returned Scholars Association, and the student government leaders of Peking University.
Media Literacy Initiative (October-November 2009). Journalism and political science students from Peking University visited the U.S. and toured the New York Times headquarters.
All-China Youth Federation, a branch of the Communist Youth League of China (April 2009). Visits included New York's landmarks and GCC branches in Harvard and Yale.
SICA (February 2009, New York)
Network Initiatives and Focus Groups
Network Initiatives (NI) encourage chapters to innovate and specialize in a given field of interest, and give back to communities near and far. NI enable young people to connect with mentors in non-profit organizations and the private sector.Sample Initiatives
International Conferences - Harvard: GCC Harvard created two conference series in China. On June 26, 2010 it held a conference on Social Entrepreneurship in partnership with Peking University and on July 10, 2010 it held a conference on Corporate Social Responsibility in partnership with Sun Yat-Sen University. Past Participants includes Chief representative for Ashoka in China, the Chief representative of the Ford Foundation in China, the Chairman of China Vanke, and a leading Harvard Business School Professor among many others.
Delegation Reception – NYU/Columbia/Harvard: NYU, Harvard, and Columbia have been hosting the recent PKU and Tsinghua delegations, which the delegation also visited corporations including JP Morgan, BCG, and King & Wood, and institutions like the United Nations and the China Institute.
Internship Program – Cornell: GCC Cornell is working with GCC Central Management to establish an internship program in China for member students.
Focus Groups (FG) is an organized framework under which members can engage in conversations together about a particular topic, and create articles, reports, research papers to share within the network.
Partners
Global China Connection's partners include:- Student Unions of Tsinghua University and Peking University (PKU)
- Western Returned Scholars Association (欧美同学会) - *Center for China and Globalization (中国与全球化研究中心).
- Ascend Leadership
- Students’ International Communication Association at Peking University (SICA). GCC received SICA during their visits to New York in 2009 and 2010. SICA also helped host GCC's July 2010 conference at PKU.
- Chinese Business Lawyers Association
- Shanghai Youth League (上海市青年联合会)