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Sarah Yong at Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, Guangzhou

Postcard from China: Reflections from Sarah Yong

After returning from my first ever trip to China, I felt a 'postcard' was in order to summarise this wonderful experience. It was a huge honour to be asked to represent our Party along with fellow Chinese Lib Dems Merlene Emerson, Alex Payton and Steven Cheung on this visit by official invitation of the Chinese Government in the Guandong province in Southern China. The trip was organised by the British Chinese Project, a not for profit organisation that works to increase awareness and greater engagement in politics by the British Chinese population. Our sixteen strong delegation included representatives from all three main parties and staff from the British Chinese Project.

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Twinned Cities e-book cover

Hot off the Press! CLD publication on "UK-China Twinned Cities" now available on Kindle

"In today's globalised world, twin city links with China can be profitable bridges between knowledge economies if approached in a creative way by local Councils, business clusters, educational institutions and research establishments working together. But there are many pitfalls and long-term, multi-layered commitments, leveraging existing core strengths, are required to make them work. This report by the Chinese Liberal Democrats is a useful handbook on how 21st century twin city-led partnerships can bring valuable results in trade, investment, science and education."

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24 Dec 2013
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David Heath and Sarah Yong

Sarah Yong selected to succeed David Heath MP in Somerton & Frome

At a packed meeting on Saturday 1st February members of the Somerton and Frome Liberal Democrats selected local woman Sarah Yong as their prospective parliamentary candidate for the 2015 General Election. Sarah succeeds local MP David Heath who announced his retirement in October last year.

5 Feb 2014
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