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( Liu Fan ) Frank Liu
Spokesman of the Global Forum
of the United Nations Department of Social and Economic
Affairs
On the 60th anniversary of the birth of the United Nations,
Liu Fan, organized a ceremony where all the heads of the
United Nations
rang the Bell of World Harmony.
Today, on his 60th birthday, he proposed to the United
Nations:
to set up a
"United Nations Global Filial Piety Day"
to celebrate the world's elderly,
Together with Lester Wolff, a centenarian congressmen,
he proposed a new vision for people:
60 is just the beginning, 100 is still middle age,
life does not end, as long as the spirit is strong
This is the lesson of a Harmonious Life!
He is honored and recognized as
Global Forum Spokesman,
by the UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs,
World Harmony Ambassador
by people's daily,
"Outstanding Volunteer Award"
by the President of the White House.
He is the Founder of Congress Network Television,
the Initiator of UN Global Filial Piety Day,
the Initiator of UN digital currency initiative,
and as
active in the mainstream of the United States
by the World Chinese Weekly
He is known as a
Harmonious Person
by influential figures in China,
and as a
Promoter of Harmonious Culture
by Asian People Guide of Hong Kong and China News Agency.
Up to the 7th UN Global Forum in 2006, only
Italian Nobel Prize winning scientists
and South Korean Foreign Minister respectively won this
honor.
Frank Liu is the third person and the only Chinese person
to be so Honored
Today, I would like to introduce to you Frank Liu,
a pioneer who actively promotes the essence of Chinese
culture
Harmonious Culture overseas.
August 19th, the 60th anniversary of Mr. Liu's birthday.
Although his main job is as an Investment Banker on Wall
Street.
He is more enthusiastic about philanthropy and
spreading harmony and multiculturalism.
He spends most of his time, working on the public welfare
outreach,
in partnership with the United Nations.
Especially in the areas of Peace and Harmony, Environmental
Protection, Culture and Education Foundation for World
Harmony.
He has raised substantial funds for public welfare, and
using the skills of an Investment banker, he has joined
hands with rich philanthropists to do many unique high-level
activities on the UN public welfare platform.
He is known as the grassroots philanthropist.
He is a Chinese American who has unique ideas and actively
puts them into action.
He is a rich unique creative Chinese American.
He was featured in the People's Daily as the Ambassador
of Harmony.
World Chinese Magazine called him the preeminent
active mainstream social activists in the United States
The Chinese PR Magazine, noted that he is
Chinese event planning master
remarking on his long and successful history of activities
and charitable events,
mainly focused in NYC,
Now, let's look back at his 20 years of Charity work:
In 1989, he graduated from Webber university as an MBA
graduate.
He returned to New York, and started his real education, as
the Presidential Assistant to the Eastern Fujian
Association.
The Fujian Association is the largest Chinese Organization
in New York,
With a very active and engaged membership
Activities range from encouraging and assisting students in
NYC, to
sustained involvement in Economic Development in Fujian
Province.
Many
of the most active members have gone forward to hugely
successful careers in Business, and
some are now leaders in the Chinas Politburo Standing
Committee
In 1993, he donated a bullet van worth 600,000 RMB to his
Alma mater,
Fuzhou No. 1 High School.
This was the largest donation in the class of '77,
and he has set a good example for alumnus charitable
donation.
In 1995 working with the first Chinese Police Chief of NYC,
He organized
for senior public security staff from 36 Provinces and
cities to visit and
share their policing experience with the top brass of the
New York City Police Department
Modernizing the Communication capacity of the Chinese
Policing Operation was
an obvious need that was identified
Liu Fan helped to set up communication companies, investment
and cooperation with the Ministry of Public Security,
immediately to help the Chinese public security modify their
communication systems.
Initiating an international financial instruments to help
the Ministry of Public Security to get the loans of 60
million Yuan, from the Dutch government as a low-interest
loan.
Which was used to install a state of the art, European
Communication system.
This quickly led to important improvements in the Chinese
security forces efficiency, for public security high-tech
and safeguard and social public security..
From 1995 to 1997, after EMBA study at Columbia Business
School,
He started to help China's reform and opening up,
promote economic development and establish capital market,
assisted Columbia financiers to carry out training work on
the establishment of China's first stock market , the
Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Helped Chinese enterprises to get listed on Wall Street, a
major source of finance.
Cooperated with visiting Professor from Columbia University
to China,
who organized capital operation training groups and China
lecture groups.
Assisted in arranging Senior Chinese Financial officials to
receive training in Columbia University, including
Liu Hongru,
Shang Fulin,
Zhou Xiaochuan,
Chairman of China Securities Commission Liu Mingkang, etc.
He lectured on
Capital Operation
in many cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Fujian, Jiangsu
and Guangdong,
which helped the Chinese government establish the stock
capital market, taught enterprises how to raise funds
through IPO listing, and successfully helped several Chinese
high-tech enterprises to get listed on Wall Street and raise
venture capital.
In April 1997, in order to promote Chinese unity and harmony
of two shore places, he masterminded the Famous
Chinese 97 back to the 100 - day countdown
helping the delegation in the United States, and organize
more than 20 well-known Chinese delegation, with Yang
Zhenglin, to visit China.
The Honorary Chairman of Mo Tiger, Chinese unity, for the
Harmony of the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Members of the delegation include:
Li Changyu, Mo Hu, Jin Yuxi, Andy Lau, Chen Li Wan Nuo
... And other well-known American Chinese were received
by the highest head of state in Zhongnanhai.
Meanwhile convening in Beijing at the same time, the
Shanghai Party Secretary, Secretary of Municipal Party
Committee, Tianjin Municipal Party Committee Secretary,
Guangdong's Party Secretary, and another four politburo
Standing Committee Members, National People's Congress, two
vice chairman of CPPCC, overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, the
Ministry of Public Security under the State Council, the
People's Daily, the United Front Work Department, the
Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign
Countries, six big ministerial leaders hosted a personally
reception.
There was a remarkably successful event, setting a new
record .
From 1999 to 2001, when he learned that China was suffering
from serious desertification and dust storm in Beijing.
He worked to prevent the dust storms in Beijing, and
immediately Founded
the Desert Research Institute .
China, desert soil management scientists, worked together in
Inner Mongolia to develop desert recovery technique, and to
test techniques to prevent erosion. Calculating economic
risk investment projects, successful developing desert oasis
technology.
Laying the foundation for the current Inner Mongolia sand
barriers
and desert recovery programs
By Successfully developing the desert greening technology,
He won the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Chen
Jian's appreciation
and was recognized for
greening the earth, everyone has a responsibility,
launched the concept of the green economy,
with a full page article in the Economic Daily report.
2001, He worked to plan and promote s
UN Secretary-General
Ban ki-Moon and un-habitat's call for
Harmonious Cities,
arranging Events in Brazil, to promote ,the harmonious
concept, and continued to promote and lobby the public at
the Shanghai World Expo.
Promoting the adoption of practices to lead to more
Sustainable and Harmonies Cities.
On October 24, 2005, the World Harmony Foundation organized
a major UN Event to , celebrate the 60th anniversary of the
United Nations,
At the opening ceremony,
Kofi Annan, the President of the General Assembly,
and the President of the Security Council , rang the Harmony
Bell.
Promoting to the whole World the desire to
build a harmonious world
It was the first time for Chinese that cooperate with the
United Nations in organizing the largest public benefit
event of the United Nations.
Which was witnessed by Congresswoman Marolyn,
the Heads of Delegations of 193 UN member states,
21 vice Presidents of the UN General Assembly
and media from 193 countries.
The Ceremony was covered e by all mainstream media in China:
Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, People's Daily, China Daily,
and media from 193 countries!
Dissemination of the concept of Harmony, and for the
Chinese glory
February 2006,
1) Successfully organized the ringing of the World Harmony
Bell by the first President, and in New York by the two
Eastern Presidents.
2) Organized Fujian Song and Dance Hall to enter the United
Nations and successfully organized the second Chinese New
Year Gala of the United Nations.
On June 21,
1) successfully organized a number of famous U.S. lawmakers
to ring the world harmony bell in the U.S. Capitol Hill,
creating the first non-governmental organization activities
held in the Capitol Hill.
On 24 June, 2)
successfully organized Chinese and foreign entertainers to
attend the art reception in support of the United Nations
Public Service Day celebration.
In April, established the Congress King Network TV Station
with senior members of the Congress and cooperated with the
Xinhua News Agency Information Center.
In June, it successfully sponsored the 7th UN Global Forum
held by the Department of Social and Economic Affairs of the
United Nations in Vienna. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations to ring the
bell of world harmony, and China sent Minister of
Supervision to attend.
On August 8, 2007, after 108 members of the United States
Congress boycotted the Olympic Games, they immediately
organized the patriotic Chinese in California to launch a
spontaneous and harmonious Olympic action, taking the
Olympic propaganda truck to more than 20 American states and
cities, and got the support and participation of the people
of each state and the government parliaments.
And rang the World Harmony Bell for the first time on
Capitol Hill.
September 20-21, the Peace of the World, together with the
United States Congress Council on Global Family Day, invite
famous American Congressmen, Judiciary Committee Chairman,
John Conyer Congress man
and the Chinese Ambassador to the United States, Zhou
Wenzhong and special envoy Zheng Zeguang to Capitol hill
again. Celebrating global family harmony of China and the
United States as the world harmonious clock, and take the
vehicle to Capitol hill, support for members of congress
signed the slogan, contribute to the development of china-us
relations.
In March 2008, the group raised 1.2 million RMB from Chinese
and foreign entrepreneurs, and Liu Fan himself donated
100,000 RMB to save the remaining
20 South China tigers in the Longyan Nature Reserve in
Fujian Province.
Obtained the local government, the people and the media
praise.
In May 2008, after the Wenchuan earthquake, he immediately
went to American middle schools and primary schools to
publicize charity, encouraging students to support the
Sichuan earthquake, and raised hundreds of thousands of RMB
and nearly one million large water filters to donate to the
quake-stricken schools in Wenchuan.
In June 2008, in collaboration with the Chinese People's
Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, group 2
earthquake spared girl to Capitol hill, describe the Chinese
government timely action against earthquake disasters, which
are praised by the United States congress more than 50 and
solidarity, broke the U.S. lawmakers together is
consistently criticized China and to recognize and support
for China, virtually made a lot of folk diplomacy.
In August 2008, the organization and sponsorship of the
World Harmony Bell entered the Beijing Olympic Games, the
day before the opening ceremony in the Olympic International
Club to ring the harmony of the ring, and let the champion
American athletes shake hands with the champion Iranian
athletes and ring the harmony of the bell, at a time of war
between the United States and the Iranian government,
significant.
In August 2009, invited UN Under-Secretary-General Ibari
Gambari to Beijing and Guangdong to promote the
establishment of the UN Convention and Exhibition Center
in China and the establishment of the Green Ecology Center
in Guangdong.
In October 2009, stiff in sino-us relations, President Hu
will cancel the multinational nuclear meeting to go to the
United States, elaborate wrote a touching letter to
President Obama, he immediately recognized, finish see
letter, on air force one off the plane to President Hu
Jintao called for an hour, china-us relations, the us
government pressure on China to revalue the renminbi is not,
fully utilize the people-to-people diplomacy.
In 2009, the World Harmony Foundation participated in the
two major activities of "the 64th birthday celebration of
the United Nations and the 61st anniversary celebration of
the establishment of the Peace Corps. Stars from five
continents participated in the performance and were praised
by the Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Peace Corps
(Deputy Secretary-General) in a personal letter.
In the spring of 2009, the United Nations commemorated Black
Emancipation Day, sponsored by the World Harmony Foundation,
and praised by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. In December of
the same year, he supported the annual celebration of the
United Nations Correspondents' Association, which was
praised by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and supported by
the parent-child signature on the action declaration of
"Harmony for Peace".
In 2010, sponsored and organized by the World Harmony
Foundation, the United Nations Pavilion at the Shanghai
World Expo celebrated the 65th anniversary of the United
Nations and invited Deputy Secretary-General Sha Zukang to
present the Harmony Award to General Chi Haotian for his
contribution to world peace.
In January 2011,
A) in the first half of President, Hu Jintao's visit to the
United States in Washington, members of congress and singer
meet democratic club, and to promote peace, harmony, and
bank of China and the United States, Hong Kong and the
cultural exchanges between the people, the former
congressional committee chairman Asia Lester Wolff, famous
singer Sister Sledge by harmonious world outstanding
contribution award.
B) In the second half of August, after the earthquake in
Haiti, I organized Chinese college students to explain that
Haitian earthquake children donated tents and arranged with
Japanese earthquake children to study in China.
C) In the second half of the year, on September 21 and
October 17, the United Nations Association annual awards for
philanthropists who have contributed to public welfare were
held respectively at the Waldorf Hotel and the United
Nations Senior Club.
In 2012, in order to save energy and reduce emissions, the
"Asian Carbon Exchange" was registered and launched in
Macao.
Launched in Beijing 2013 "gratitude" birthday filial piety
education action, filial piety committee was established in
New York, and into the 64th birthday of the United Nations,
launched a "global day of filial piety" in folk way, and
actively promote apply to the United Nations general
assembly by the first "global" filial piety, initiated by
the Chinese, this action is consistent with the Chairman Xi
in China
called for a set up the Dan action.
In 2014, in order to train young people, the Future Leaders
Forum was successfully held in the United Nations and the
Future Leaders walked into Wall Street to "simulate IPO",
which won praise from children and parents.
In 2015, we organized children's ambassadors for harmony to
participate in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of
the United Nations in Central Park with the painting "Dream
of Peace", which promotes peace through culture, to call for
an end to the war in Syria. As the only representative of
the wishes of children all over the world, the painting was
presented on the rostrum as a gift to celebrate the
70th anniversary of the United Nations.
In the 2016 US election, organized Chinese youth to actively
participate in politics, care about politics, and wrote a
letter to Hillary by the Little Harmony Ambassador, which
was praised by the public and the media!
In 2017, in order to carry forward the traditional Chinese
culture, we organized a team to turn the famous Chinese
novel Journey to the West into a musical, and trained
excellent children to perform in a Broadway theater and
successfully performed.
In June 2018, in cooperation with the United Nations
Correspondents' Association and the UN Branch of Xinhua News
Agency, a famous portrait artist drew a "peace bureau" with
the purpose of promoting peace through culture. The heads of
the Six-Party Talks and the Secretary-General were painted
in the painting. The first day cover was issued at the
United Nations on June 12, the day Trump shook hands with
Kim Jong Un. Due to the unique creativity of the work, I was
invited by the UN Correspondents' Association and Xinhua
News Agency to present the painting as a gift for the 70th
anniversary of the UN Correspondents' Association, and
received surprise and praise from the UN Secretary-General
Guterres! And on behalf of the United Nations to receive
gifts for collection at the United Nations.
On 21 September 2018, on the occasion of the UN General
Assembly and Peace Day, the First Ladies Summit was held in
conjunction with UNESCO and the First Ladies' Organization,
and the World Harmony Foundation received UNESCO's Award for
Outstanding Contribution to the Public Service.
On November 4, 2018, he arranged and assisted the Vice
Governor of Hunan Province to lead entrepreneurs to lead
experts in the treatment of diabetes with integrated
traditional Chinese and Western medicine to support and
sponsor the celebration party of the United Nations Sugar
Treatment Day on the United Nations Diabetes Day. He also
promoted the importance of solving diabetes problems and
established the World Natural Health Organization. The
special effect rehabilitation instrument for diabetes
treated by integrated traditional Chinese and western
medicine invented by Chinese space scientists was
publicized.
On December 5, 2018, he organized entrepreneurs to sponsor
and support the 70th anniversary celebration of the UN
Journalists' Association, and introduced to the UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres that the achievements of the
combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western
medicine can cure difficult diseases and sugar diseases,
which was highly appreciated by the UN Secretary General. It
also introduced the "Jiangsu Jinseiyuan Wine Group" to
spread Chinese wine culture around the world through the
United Nations platform, and jointly launched the "United
Nations Global Television" with the first president of the
United Nations Corrupt Association, in the process of
preparation.
During the dispute between the President of the White House
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on the
US-Mexico border issue, the innovative think tank proposal
that jointly planned and promoted how to solve the "China-US
trade war", "US-Mexico border" and "Taiwan's harmonious
reunification" won the appreciation of US congressmen, White
House advisers and senior officials of the two sides of the
Taiwan Strait and three places.
To promote the two heads of shore and support Taiwan's
harmony, in April 2019, organized us think-tank delegation
to visit Kaohsiung, propose to Geohiong (kaohsiung) Mayor
South Korea yu economy, put forward in Kaohsiung port cities
in the world conference, advocating "spending money" to help
Taiwan economy, receive head of Taiwan's candidates Han
Guoyu reception and attention.
In order to welcome the arrival of the digital financial
era, together with Wall Street and Taiwan financiers,
digital technology experts, initiated and established the
"World Digital Monetary Fund" in April 2019, preparing to
cooperate with the United Nations "Digital High-level Group"
to build the United Nations digital currency, so thoroughly
explain the United Nations financial reform. It plans to
introduce a resolution to the United Nations General
Assembly in September for the 193 member states to pass,
along with digital finance giants such as Facebook, Amazon,
Tencent and Alibaba.
From 2018 to 19, he was employed by American TV as the East
America Correspondent for AMTV and the
United Nations Correspondent for WTTONPRESS in Hong Kong.
In July 2019, the micro movie Chinese channel of CCTV,
employed in the United States east of the ABU to webmaster,
planning to cooperate with the United Nations, with
harmonious clock into the United Nations, the White House,
congress, the two Koreas, the Vatican, Taiwan, countries and
so on, all the way to promote peace "harmonious concept
through the world's 7.5 billion Internet users thumb up
harmonious Zhong Hongyang UN goals and Chinese culture,
launched the" CCTV micro film "I am the future leader of
the" youth video contribute to global competition, the
United Nations finals, China central television (CCTV) micro
movie tracking report.
In recognition of his more than 20 years of public service
achievements, he received the following awards and
recognition:
1) In 2007, was appointed as the "Global Forum Spokesman" by
the Department of Social and Economic Affairs of the United
Nations at the General Assembly of the UN General Forum in
Vienna. So far, only "Italian Nobel Laureate, Foreign
Minister of South Korea and Frank Liu" have been awarded the
honorary post.
2) In 2015, he was awarded the "Lifetime Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Volunteer Service" by the White
House Presidential Awards.
3) In 2006, he was awarded the Congressional Record Award
jointly with
the World Harmony Foundation.
4) In 2003, he was awarded the New York City Council
Councillor
Liu Chun-Yi Special Merit Award
5) In 2008, won the title of "Harmony Messenger" and
reported by People's Daily
6) In 2009, "He is active in the mainstream of the United
States" was reported by World Chinese Weekly
6) Won the title and report of "Influential People Magazine"
in China in 2009.
7) Hired by Hong Kong Newsweek and AMTV as Station Master of
the Eastern United States in 2018
8) During the UN Summit in September 2018, the World Harmony
Foundation was awarded the UNESCO Educational Centre
Non-Government Award for Excellence.
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