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2011 IHG Beijing Cluster Charity Golf Tournament

Intercontinental Hotels Group — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:07:31 +0000

Beijing, China (August 02, 2011) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Over the last six years, the IHG Beijing Cluster Hotels have been working closely with the China Youth Development Foundation to raise much-needed funds to provide children in China’s poverty-stricken areas with the opportunity for an education.

This year the IHG Beijing Cluster Hotels will host their 7th Charity Golf Tournament on the 3rd of September at the Oriental Pearl Golf Course. The event will commence with an 18-hole round of golf, with snacks and refreshments served on the course. The game will be followed by a gala dinner and charity raffle at the wonderful clubhouse.

We appreciate your support and look forward to your continuous generosity.

Participating Hotels (by brand)
Intercontinental Beijing Financial Street
Intercontinental Beijing Beichen
Crowne Plaza Beijing Wangfujing
Crowne Plaza Beijing Chaoyang U-Town
Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace
Crowne Plaza Beijing Parkview Wuzhou
Crowne Plaza Beijing Zhongguancun
Crowne Plaza International Airport Beijing
Holiday Inn Beijing Focus Square
Holiday Inn Down Town Beijing
Holiday Inn Central Plaza Beijing
Holiday Inn Temple of Heaven Beijing
Holiday Inn Beijing Deshengmen
Holiday Inn Beijing Chang An West
Holiday Inn Beijing Haidian
Holiday Inn Express Beijing Temple of Heaven
Holiday Inn Express Beijing Dongzhimen
Holiday Inn Express Beijing Minzuyuan
Holiday Inn Express Beijing Zhongguancun
Holiday Inn Express Beijing Wangjing
Holiday Inn Express Beijing Huacai
Holiday Inn Express Beijing Shangdi Beijing

About IHG
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. IHG franchises, leases, manages or owns, through various subsidiaries, over 4,500 hotels and more than 650,000 guest rooms in 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognised and respected hotel brands including InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club Rewards with 52 million members worldwide.

IHG has 1,300 hotels in its development pipeline, which will create 160,000 jobs worldwide over the next few years.

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company and is incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales.

IHG offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at www.ihg.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com. For the latest news from IHG, visit our online Press Office at www.ihg.com/media

About IHG’s School Project with the China Youth Development Foundation
The China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF) is a national non-profit and non-governmental organization founded in March 1989 in Beijing. The CYDF works to develop Chinese youth through education, science and technology, culture, physical education, health and environmental protection. The CYDF is best known for launching and managing its largest programme to date, "Project Hope" . Project Hope has sought to help school dropouts in poor remote regions return to school and complete at least an elementary education.

By the end of 2009, Project Hope had raised over RMB 6 billion in donations, helped 3.5 million children from poverty-stricken rural families continue their schooling, built 16,355 Hope primary schools, presented the Hope mini-library series to 14,636 village schools in remote areas and trained over 60,000 village primary school teachers. As a result of consistent effort by staff and supporters alike, Project Hope has become one of the best-known and most successful charity programs in the country.

In November 2007, IHG set up the IHG Project Hope Fund and became an official partner of the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF). The transparently managed fund is dedicated to supporting young dropouts in poverty-stricken areas through Hope Schools, vocational education and scholarship for college/university students. As the first charity fund in China connecting hotels, guests and donors, it not only prolongs the mission of IHG to fulfill its corporate social responsibility, but also promotes the concept of social responsibility among a wider group of people. The creative approach of "donating RMB 5 upon check-in" provides hotel guests with easy opportunities to contribute to worthy causes. The programme has won great support from the nearly 150 IHG hotels in Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau.

As of December 1st, 2010, RMB 6,582,229.38 has been collected for the IHG Project Hope Fund, and RMB 5,920,000 has been used or slated to be used. The 11 IHG Hope Schools in Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Guangdong, Sichuan, Shanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei and Shandong provinces have been built or are currently under construction, with four out of 11 officially in use. Other charity activities by IHG include donations to Hope Classmate for Earthquake Relief Sichuan, investment in vocational education and the IHG Academy Scholarship.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Feng WANG
Marketing Communication Manager of Holiday Inn Beijing Focus Square
Tel: 86 10 6473 3333 – 6909
Email: feng.wang@ihg.com

7th Annual 'Cuisine For Charity 2011' By IHG Beijing and "Project Hope"

Intercontinental Hotels Group — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:36:44 +0000

Beijing, China (August 02, 2011) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — 'Cuisine for Charity' is one of the most important annual events for InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) hotels in Beijing. It is not only a good opportunity for chefs to showcase themselves, to study each other and improve cooking skills; but also to show that we take care of our social responsibilities.

On July 7, 2011, the 7th IHG Annual Charity Cooking Competition was held at Crowne Plaza Beijing International Airport. Chefs from 15 hotels of InterContinental, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn brands competed in seven categories: Sweet Coffee Break, Cold Appetizer, Laksa, Cocktail, Coffee Barista, Black Box and Chinese Cold Dish 6 Combinations (which is a new competition item of this year’s event.) The most exciting part is "Black Box" competition, where every participating team cooked one dish with the materials given by the organizing committee within one hour. Judges scored by criteria of presentation, creativity and team effort.

After 6 years of enormous success in our charity drive, and having opened 5 schools which in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Hebei province, IHG hotels in Beijing had joined hands once again to provide funding support for "Project Hope" , which is a public welfare undertaking, initiated and organized by the CYDF (China Youth Development Foundation).

During the awarding celebration gala dinner, Mr. Roland Steiner, Regional General Manager, on behalf of IHG Beijing Cluster donated the RMB400,000 check to CYDF to build the 6th Project Hope school. "IHG BN Love Choir" , which is title sponsored by IHG Beijing hotels, also came to the stage and performed charity songs to express their appreciations to all the generous sponsors.

Participating hotel name list:
Intercontinental Beijing Beichen
Intercontinental Beijing Financial Street
Crowne Plaza Beijing Wangfujing
Crowne Plaza Park View Wuzhou Beijing
Crowne Plaza Beijing International Airport
Crowne Plaza Sun Palace Beijing
Crowne Plaza Beijing Zhongguancun
Crowne Plaza Beijing Chaoyang U-Town
Holiday Inn Beijing Focus Square
Holiday Inn Beijing Temple of Heaven
Holiday Inn Central Plaza Beijing
Holiday Inn Chang An West Beijing
Holiday Inn Beijing Downtown
Holiday Inn Beijing Deshengmen
Holiday Inn Beijing Haidian

About IHG
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is a global company operating seven well-known hotel brands including InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites. IHG also manages Priority Club Rewards, the world’s first and largest hotel loyalty programme with 58 million members worldwide.

IHG is the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms and IHG franchises, leases, manages or owns, through various subsidiaries, a portfolio of over 4,400 hotels and more than 652,000 guest rooms in 100 countries and territories around the world.

IHG has more than 1,200 hotels in its development pipeline and expects to recruit around 160,000 people worldwide over the next few years.

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group’s holding company and is incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales.

IHG offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at http://www.ihg.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com. For our latest news visit www.ihg.com/media, Twitter or YouTube.

About IHG Project Hope Fund
In November 2007, IHG set up the IHG Project Hope Fund and became an official partner of the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF). The transparently managed fund is dedicated to supporting young dropouts in poverty-stricken areas through Hope Schools, vocational education and scholarship for college/university students. As the first charity fund in China connecting hotels, guests and donors, it not only prolongs the mission of IHG to fulfill its corporate social responsibility, but also promotes the concept of social responsibility among a wider group of people. The creative approach of "donating RMB 5 upon check-in" provides hotel guests with easy opportunities to contribute to worthy causes. The programme has won great support from the nearly 150 IHG hotels in Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau.

As of 31st May, 2011, RMB 10,380,698.47 has been collected for IHG Project Hope Fund, with which, 13 IHG Hope Schools in 10 provinces have been built or are currently under construction. Other charity activities by the fund include donating Earthquake Relief Schools with ' Happy Music Classrooms' in Sichuan, establishing IHG Service Classes in BN Vocational Schools in Beijing, Chengdu and Sanya, and launching scholarship programmes in 17 IHG Academies.

The China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF) is a national non-profit and non-governmental organization founded in March 1989 in Beijing. The CYDF works to develop Chinese youth through education, science and technology, culture, physical education, health and environmental protection. The CYDF is best known for launching and managing its largest programme to date, "Project Hope" . Project Hope has sought to help school dropouts in poor remote regions return to school and complete at least an elementary education.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Margaret Li
Marketing Communications Manager
Crowne Plaza Beijing International Airport
tel (86) 10 5810 8888
e-mail margaret.li6@ihg.com

Wirtgen Green Mix Technology On Xitong Expressway Improvement Project Saves CNY28 Million

Wirtgen China — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:33:23 +0000

Economical efficient and environmentally friendly use of Wirtgen Green Mix cold recycling technology with foamed bitumen cuts costs, reduces emissions and saves on material.

Beijing, China (August 03, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — On June 28th, 2010, after being closed for 53 days, the southern half of the Tongguan to Xian section of the Lianhuo Expressway improvement and widening project was reopened with four lanes in two directions. This is the first expressway in China which has been improved and widened on large scale using Green Mix foamed bitumen cold recycling technology from Wirtgen. As the existing pavement material was reused as efficiently as possible, the cost saving was around CNY 28,000,000. This provides a reference example for highway overhaul, improvement and widening in Shanxi province with clear economic efficiency and environment benefits from this project.

A traditional pavement overhaul focuses mainly on substitution and strengthening. Substitution results in higher costs, longer time duration, and a more complex project. A large quantity of milled material would not be reused properly, resulting in waste and pollution. Strengthening has the drawbacks that pavement bearing capacity can not be meaningfully increased and pavement defects can not be effectively eliminated. With the advent of the 21st century, many high-class roads need to be maintained and repaired or improved — around 12% of pavement needs to be overhauled every year – and this requires a total quantity of around 2,200,000 tons of existing pavement material. Recycling of this material and reusing it in new construction and repair of pavement, will be not only be environmentally friendly, but will also result in major cost savings. Especially in western area of the country, reusing large quantity of existing pavement material, will reduce pollution, conserve water and soil, and allow the building of more roads with less investment. So, it has very important effect.

Recently Wirtgen's Green Mix foamed bitumen technology has become more and more popular, both in China and abroad. It provides a new method for modernized cost effective repair and maintenance of roads. "Individual study of foamed bitumen cold recycling" was supported by technology finance from Ministry of Finance, and was declared to be a technology development project for Shaanxi province. When this study is finished, the annual cost saving on material through recycling will be CNY1.500 billion.

In foamed bitumen technology water is injected into hot bitumen, making it expand and become bitumen foam. The foam will settle down after a short time. The foam bitumen becomes millions of tiny particles spread over fine material and forms a slurry. After mixing and compaction, it will bind the coarse particles and make the pavement course stable. Compared to traditional methods, the advantages of foamed bitumen technology include: long time storage of mix, higher shear strength, and less sensitivity of the mix to water.

With regard to energy saving, Green Mix foamed bitumen has a number of very strong points. According to Mr. Li Jingde, in traditional design, bitumen content of the asphalt base course is 3.4%, and for the binder course it is 4.4%. When using foamed bitumen, existing material will be reused extensively, saving crushed stone. When paving on hard shoulders, it replaces binder and base courses with a bitumen content of only 2.1%. This equates to saving half of the bitumen. He says the detailed calculations are as follows: "The cost of 12 cm base course is CNY 98/m², the cost of 6 cm binder course is CNY 61/m², resulting in a total cost of both courses together of CNY159/m². The cost of 18 cm foamed bitumen course is only CNY76/m². So, replacing the base and binder courses with foamed bitumen mix gives a cost saving of CNY 83/m². That is CNY 259,790 cost saving per kilometer. The total foamed bitumen recycled material in Xsitong expressway project is about 61,800 m³, and gives a total cost saving of around CNY28,000,000. It really makes waste profitable." Further more, foamed bitumen recycling requires less labor and investment in machines. It cures naturally and this can be finished within two days in thesummer time. In comparison the traditional water spreading curing method needs seven days.

As a new road technology, foamed bitumen recycling has been tested and applied throughout the country. But, for expressway improvement and widening like Xitong expressway project, there is no experience or reference data. Xitong expressway improvement and widening is the first project in China to use this design and construction and to benefit from major savings in cost material and emissions.

About the Wirtgen Group
The Wirtgen Group is an internationally operating group of companies in the construction machinery sector incorporating four traditional brands: Wirtgen, Vogele, Hamm, and Kleemann. As a technological leader, they offer their customers mobile machine solutions for road construction and road rehabilitation, as well as for mining and processing minerals.

The Wirtgen Group has been present in China for more than 20 years and, since 2004, has operated an assembly factory in Langfang, Hebei Province. With more than nine branches and 250 employees, Wirtgen China are always close to their customers.

For more information: www.wirtgen-china.com.cn

China National Travel Service (HK) and HK CTS Hotels Win Three China Hotel Starlight Awards

HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd. — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:53:49 +0000

Shenzhen, China (March 25, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — The 5th China Hotel Starlight Awards Presentation Ceremony was held in Shenzhen on March 18th, 2010. China National Travel Service (HK) Group Corporation (CTS Group) and its subsidiary, HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd., won three awards from the 5th China Hotel Starlight Awards Presentation Ceremony. Exemplary Corporate Governance of China Hotel Industry—China National Travel Service (HK) Group Corporation; Best Hotel Management Group of China—HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd.; Top 10 Hoteliers of the Year, China—Mr. Elton Sun, General Manager of HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd.

This is the second year in a row that CTS Group and HK CTS Hotel Co., Ltd. have won the awards. The members at the Advisory Committee were impressed by the rapid development of HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd., including the increasing hotel numbers of both Metropark and Traveler Inn, the professionalism of hotel management team, and the strategy of hotel development. Followed by the company's business development, HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd. will make full use of the parent company's advantages in online resources, human resources and finance to become one of top professional hotel groups in China.

China Hotel Starlight Awards are jointly conceived and summoned by Chinese mainstream mass media, the hotel industry and the banking and investment industry. As the "Oscar Awards" of China hotel industry, China Hotel Starlight Awards are to recognize the great achievements of those excellent hotels and hoteliers. The Award-winners are decided by the consensus of a group of capable and experienced hotel experts and appraisals of the Advisory Committee of AHF, recommendations and nominations from members of the industry and online voting. Due to its representativeness and justness, China Hotel Starlight Awards stands for the unmatched-conferring authority in China hotel industry.

HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd.
HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of one of the largest China's tourism groups – China National Travel Service (H.K.) Group Corporation (CTS HK Group), which is directly managed by SASAC of the State Council. It was founded on the merger of CTS HK Metropark Hotels Management Co., Ltd. and CTS Hotel Corporation, which respectively belonged to the former CTS HK Group and CTS Group.

HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd. focuses on: the best hospitality services for guests; offering optimum value and returns for hotel owners; providing career enhancement and development for employees; and contributing professional services to hotels.

HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd. operates four hotel brands: "Grand Metropark" for five-star luxury hotels; "Metropark" for four-star business hotels; "Traveler Inn" for characteristic business hotels and "Traveler Inn Express" for budget hotels.

HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd. is authorized with the full rights by CTS HK Group including hotel operation, management, investment, recruitment and so on. The hotel assets it owns have reached almost 10-billion, and with CTS HK Group's hotel assets' implantation, the company will gradually cultivate the conditions for independently listing.

HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd. operates 50 hotel properties with more than 15,000 guestrooms in Hong Kong, Macau and major destinations throughout mainland China such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Jinan, Taiyuan, Shenzhen, Dalian, Suzhou, Zhuhai, Xiamen, Sanya, Yangzhou, Deqing, Chizhou, Dunhuang, Jiyuan and Wuxi. In 2008 and 2009, it was listed No.51 and No.43 in "Top 300 Global Hotel Groups" by HOTELS magazine.

China National Travel Service (HK) Group Corporation
China National Travel Service (HK) Group Corporation (CTS Group) is the parent company of China Travel Service (Holdings) Hong Kong Limited. It was established in April 1928, as one of the four state-owned enterprise in Hong Kong. Through generations of aggressive expansion, "CTS Group" has developed into a well renowned conglomerate enterprise with tourism as the core business, and industrial investment (iron & steel), real estate development and logistics & trading as its supporting businesses.

China Travel International Investment Hong Kong Limited (CTII) is the tourism flagship of "CTS Group". It operates travel subsidiaries in the Mainland China, Hong Kong and overseas, covering a wide range of industries such as travel agencies, hotels, scenic spots, leisure resorts, golf club, transportation and so on. "CTS Group" also invests Tangshan Guofeng Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. and Shanxi Weihe Power Station. Real estate is another branch of "CTS Group", its properties in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Suzhou and Shenyang all won good reputation. With the logistic business of "CTS Group" grew from initial railway transportation and storage into current air-express and ocean shipping, Shanghai Trade Company already ranked No.9 among Top 100 International Freight Transportation Agencies in China.

Approved by the State Council, CTS (Holdings) Corporation of China has merged into "CTS Group" since June 2007, which bought a significant impact on the pattern of tourism industry in China. "CTS Group" is pursuing further development with a scientific vision and striving for realizing its tourism core business to be the 1st in China, Top in Asia and Excellence in the world.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Shirley Zhang
Marketing Communication & PR Director
Tel: +86 10 58110067
Email: shirley.zhang@metroparkhotels.com

Universities across China complete online learning pilot programs

IPS — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:10:24 +0000

Beijing, China (July 31, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Intelligent People Solutions (IPS) launched Web Based Computer Programming Instruction pilot programs with 15 universities in China. The pilot programs began in February of 2009 and included universities in Shanxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Liaoning and Special Administrative Regions, Beijing and Shanghai.

The pilot programs introduced Codelab to Chinese Introductory Programming Students; Codelab is a web-based interactive programming exercise system for introductory programming classes in Python, Java, C++, C and other languages. IPS assisted universities participating in the pilot program by customizing Codelab content to match each school's syllabus and textbook requirements.

"The customization work was actually quite easy as many of the schools used text books written in the West. It was gratifying however to see how quickly Chinese students grasped the programming concepts and moved on to more advanced exercises," commented David Arnow, lead developer for Codelab.

The Ministry of Education in China reports over 2.3 million students enroll in introductory programming courses each year. University enrollments are on the rise and vocational and independent universities, which are joint ventures between State Schools and Private organizations, have benefitted the most by accommodating students who are not eligible to enter into a State university.

"By establishing the reputation of learning tools, like Codelab, with State run Universities, we are positioning our self for the much more lucrative private education market", remarked Alistair McArthur, Sales and Marketing Director for IPS. "Less than two thirds of university graduates are employable, but their families are more than willing to invest in educational and vocational resources that will provide their children an advantage, and that is the market IPS is targeting".

For more information about IPS please visit www.discoverips.com, or call their Corporate Offices in Beijing, China at +86-10-6464-0108.

This press release was prepared by, Michael Iannini, and he can be reached at michael@nics.com.cn.

Bringing 21st Century Teaching Concepts Into Chinese University Classrooms

China Newswire — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:46:29 +0000

Beijing, China (October 20, 2008) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Dr. David Arnow, a tenured Computer Science Professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, has been invited by the Shanxi Branch of the Computer Science Federation (in association with the China Association of Science & Technology), Tsinghua Press and China's Computer Science Journal (Sponsored by the Committee of Higher Educational Computing Courses of the Ministry of Education) to facilitate 3 workshops on the merits of investing in and creating an interactive environment in the classroom. The workshops will be focused on how to introduce e-Learning tools into the traditional textbook based classroom.

The workshops will be held in Beijing November 8 at Tsinghua University, November 15 at Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Shanxi province and Novmber 16 at FuZhou University, FuJian province. The attendants will include representatives from various branches of the Ministry of Education, University Deans and Computer Programming faculty seated in departments from various disciplines.

Professors of Universities from Shanxi province visited with Dr. Arnow earlier in the year as part of a 25 year long cooperative effort between Universities in Shanxi Province and The City University of New York (CUNY). "This visit really opened my eyes to the opportunity US Educational Institutions have at cooperating with our peers in the East in cultivating the minds of their 250 million students", Dr. Arnow went on to say "in the US we constantly our innovating new ways to motivate and maintain the attention of our students, where in China students can't get enough content to satisfy their immense hunger for knowledge".

China is rapidly developing the resources and means for its young elite to be exposed to Western learning concepts. Chinese Universities are being equipped with the latest in audio/visual aides and students have access to more bandwidth then most second tier cities in China seem to have. The investment made in education is evident not only in the growing number of students competing for placement in top tier universities, but also by the depth and breadth of educational tools they are being provided. The challenge today is not with funding education, but in assisting faculty how to take advantage of the educational tools they have been provided.

Dr. Arnow was the innovator of WebToTeach, now known as Codelab, and actively researches and publishes papers on cooperative learning using interactive media. Dr. Arnow's visit is being sponsored by Intelligent People Solutions (IPS), a Beijing based e-Learning solutions provider.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Michael Iannini
Managing Director
Intelligent People Solutions (IPS)
Phone:+86-13911016894
http://www.discoverips.com

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