Winston won Philanthropist of the Year Award
NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2011 — Clean energy philanthropist Winston Chung from China became the inaugural recipient of the United Nations Association of New York‘s award honoring outstanding social entrepreneurs pursuing philanthropic ideals and social good, and the award-presenting ceremony was held at the Union Club on. October 13, 2011.
The UN granted the rare earth lithium inventor Winston Chung 2011’s global social responsibility and global philanthropist highest awards↓
Catherine assistant acted as the interpreter for Chairman Winston Chung who delivered his speech in the UN (the person at the first from the right is the former president of the United Nations Association of New York)↓
Chairman Winston Chung talked with United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Admire (left)↓
Chairman Winston Chung and the other two winners were with the United Nations officials↓
Chairman Winston Chung was with four assistants↓
Chairman Winston Chung were with the other famous entrepreneurs in the UN, i.e. Macau Tian Hua Group chairman Zhang Guodian (first from the left), chairman Cai Duxiong and CEO Cai Yizhong from a famous electric car company in Taiwan↓
President of the United Nations Association of New York was with Chairman Winston Chung at the ceremony↓
Catherine assistant (first from right) was with Chairman Winston Chung and the resident United Nations Consular (first from left)↓
Chairman Winston Chung was with the Deputy Secretary-General who presented the awards on behalf of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon↓
United Nations Assistant Secretary General (first from right) was Chairman Winston Chung, Assistant Catherine (second from left), and Steve (first from left)↓
Director-General of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development greeted to Chairman Winston Chung↓
Chairman Winston Chung accompanied by the Special Assistant (firs from right) was with the public relations professor at the University of California (middle)↓
On the evening's ceremony, United Nations Association of New York’s President Paula Jackson delivered the opening speech, and Harvard Medical School Director Julio Frenk delivered the keynote speech. Over a hundred guests including UN Under-Secretary General Akasaka attended.
This year's award-winning three winners are: Johnson & Johnson’s Vice Chairman Sheri McCoy, and Every Mother Counts founder Christy Turlington Burns, and Winston Energy Group founder Winston Chung. Of which, the social entrepreneurs and philanthropists award was first awarded and this award was presented by UN Under-Secretary General Akasaka.
Winston Chung said he was pleased to receive this honor and his dream was to launch clean energy products meet market demands, especially the rare earth lithium batteries. He is currently setting up a company in California with more than 3,000 employees as a lithium battery manufacturing plant, and the company is expected next year to come to a mass production for new batteries.
In addition, he also in the beginning of this year donated 10m USD to UC Riverside to support the new energy research, which is the school's biggest donation ever received.
Source: Qiao Bao Reporter: Guan Liming
