Friendship Prize (China)

The friendship award medal.

The friendship award certificate (2010).

The Friendship Award of the People's Republic of China ( Chinese  中华人民共和国友谊奖 ; Pinyin Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Youyi jiǎng; English: Friendship Award) is the highest award of the People's Republic of China for foreign experts who contribute to the economic and social development in China. In addition to a medal, a certificate is awarded. Since it was first awarded in 1991, it has usually taken place around October 1st ( national holiday - founding of the People's Republic of China ). By 2007, 949 experts from 56 countries had received the award, two years later there were 1099 awardees.

precursor

The award was introduced in the 1950s by then Prime Minister Zhou Enlai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi and presented to experts from the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries. On September 15, 1955, the Chinese government decreed that every Soviet expert leaving the country should receive a medal. This medal showed the flags of China and the Soviet Union with the inscription Long live the Sino-Soviet friendship ( Chinese  中 苏 友谊 万岁 ; Pinyin Zhōngsū Youyì Wànsuì). With the Sino-Soviet rift in the early 1960s, this practice ended.

Award winners (selection)

• Peter Abplanalp , Professor of Strategy at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, University of Economics, Olten, Switzerland (2006)
• Werner Alpers was Professor at the University of Hamburg , Germany (2008)
• Bertram Brenig , veterinary, molecular biology, professor at the University of Göttingen , Germany (2012)
• Andreas Dress , mathematician, Germany (2012)
• Andreas DuBois , wind energy expert, Germany (2012), has been supporting China's wind energy since 1990; since 2005 in Beijing, Director China Wind Power Project (Consulting)
• Robert Fontaine , doctor, USA (2007)
• Hubert Forster , forest expert from Germany / Bavaria, has been working as a forest consultant in the province of Gansu since 2004 (award ceremony September 2011)
• Werner Haffmans , Managing Director, Germany (2013)
• Kirby Jefferson Managing Director, USA (2009?)
• Michael Josipovic MA , Economic Development Agency of the City of Cologne, Germany (2013)
• Yevgeny Kaspersky , Computer Security Specialist , Russia (2009)
• Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus , chemist, Germany (2016)
• Reinhart Kühne , Professor, Germany (2007)
• Beat Künzi Senior Coordinating Chief, Swiss Agency of Development and Cooperation, Division of Humanitarian Aid and Swiss Disaster Relief, Switzerland (2009)
• Kishō Kurokawa Architect, Japan (2005)
• Hans-Peter Liebig , Rector of the University of Hohenheim , Germany (2004)
• Alan MacDiarmid , chemist, USA (2004)
• Fredmund Malik , owner of Malik Management Zentrum St. Gallen AG (2016).
• Horst Marschner , was professor at the University of Hohenheim, Germany (1994)
• Chad A. Mirkin , chemist, USA (2018)
• Pedro Nueno , Professor of Entrepreneurship IESE Barcelona , Spain (2009)
• Ruedi Vorteili , Director of the FHNW School of Business, Olten, Switzerland (2014)
• Lothar Reh , was professor at ETH Zurich , Switzerland (2008)
• Erwin Reisch , Former President of the University of Hohenheim, Germany
• Albert Roman , violoncello soloist, Switzerland (1999)
• Madjid Samii , neurosurgeon, Germany (2007)
• Çetin Şengonca , was professor at the University of Bonn , Germany (1999)
• Sabriye Tenberken , Tibetologist and founder of the organization Braille Without Borders , Germany (2006)
• Sebastian Zimmer, specialist for circulating fluidized bed flue gas cleaning, managing director, Germany (2003)

China-Africa Friendship Prize

For the first time in December 2006, the China-Africa Friendship Prize was awarded to ten Africans and ten Chinese. This award is given every three years to influential and well-known people who have made a contribution to the Sino-African friendship.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Foreign experts honored , article in the Shanghai Daily of September 30, 2007, accessed on October 7, 2009.
2. ↑ Chinese premier meets Friendship Award winners. September 30, 2007, accessed October 7, 2009.
3. ↑ ^{a b} China confers friendship award on 100 foreign experts. English-language news item People's Daily Online dated September 29, 2009, accessed October 7, 2009.
4. ↑ Friendship Award, State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (official website, in Chinese) ( Memento from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ ^{a b} Evolution of the Friendship Award, China Weekly, November 30, 2009 (in Chinese)
6. ↑ Chinese government bestows top awards on foreign experts. at: english.people.com.cn
7. ↑ Hamburg marine researcher receives friendship award from the PR China ( memento from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), press release from ZMAW Hamburg from September 27, 2008, accessed on October 7, 2009.
8. ↑ Chinese government honors mathematician Andreas Dress with the 2012 Friendship Prize from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de); Retrieved October 1, 2012.
9. ↑ Storm of Praise for Wind Expert , China Daily European Weekly 08/23/2013 page29
10. ↑ American epidemiologist wins China's Friendship Award , English-language article People's Daily Online of October 11, 2007, accessed on October 7, 2009.
11. ↑ Chinese daily Guang Ming Ri Bao from September 30, 2011.
12. ↑ Eugene Kaspersky receives National Friendship Award of China , press release from Kaspersky Lab dated September 30, 2009, accessed on October 7, 2009.
13. ^ Chinese friendship award for chemist from Bielefeld. Press release of the University of Bielefeld from September 30, 2016 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de); accessed on September 30, 2016.
14. ↑ Presentation of the China National Friendship Award to Prof. Reinhart Kühne , press release from DLR -Transportation Studies from October 1, 2007, accessed on October 7, 2009.
15. ↑ Life-saving missions by the Chinese - also thanks to Switzerland. ( Memento from September 18, 2013 in the archive.today web archive ) SDC report, accessed on September 18, 2013.
16. ↑ ^{a b c} China's highest honor for foreign citizens 'Friendship Award' to researchers at the University of Hohenheim. Report of the information service science dated September 29, 2004, accessed on October 7, 2009.
17. ↑ Friendship Award awards friends , English-language message People's Daily Online of September 30, 2004, accessed on October 7, 2009.
18. ↑ People's Republic of China Friendship Award 2016 ( Memento from January 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
19. ^ Mirkin receives Friendship Award from People's Republic of China. In: Northwestern Now. October 1, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 . 
20. ↑ IESE Prof. Pedro Nueno Receives China's "Friendship Award," the Highest Honor Given to a Foreigner , English-language press release by IESE from September 18, 2009, accessed on October 7, 2009.
21. ^ [1] Chinadaily.com
22. ↑ [2] Oltner Tagblatt
23. ↑ Presentation of the China National Friendship Award 2008 to Prof. Dr. L. Reh , notification from ETH Alumni dated December 3, 2008, accessed on October 7, 2009.
24. ↑ Friendship Award of the People's Republic of China to Prof. Dr. Cetin Sengonca , in: Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 72 / Number 4, August 1999, p. 111. doi : 10.1007 / BF02768922
25. ↑ Ten Africans to be honored with China-Africa Friendship Award , English-language news People's Daily Online of April 5, 2008, accessed on October 7, 2009.