Fascinating stories of the men and women President Xi praised at the UK parliament
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4. Lord Michael Bates walked 1,700 kilometers for Chinese charity fund raising.
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Lord Michael Bates walks in the heat. (File photo) |
Lord Michael Bates is a minister of state at the Home Office in the UK. On July 27, 2015 he and his wife Li Xuelin set out from Beijing and traveled through Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, accumulating 1,701 kilometers over 71 days before they arrived at Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province on Oct. 5, 2015.
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Lord Michael Bates and his Chinese wife Li Xuelin. (File photo) |
Bates called it the “Walk for Peace.” 2015 is the UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange, and also the 70th anniversary of end of World War II. Bates took this walk as a significant activity to commemorate peace and remember the cruelty of war. After the activity Bates donated all the money of over 500,000 yuan he raised during the trip to China’s Red Cross for public welfare projects.
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