about our Club
Rotarians visiting or living in China:
Welcome!
Rotary in the World
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Over 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 33,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries and geographic areas. But we also have 270,000 Interactors, 170,000 Rotaractors, 150,000 Rotary Community Corps members. Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community’s business and professional men and women. The world’s Rotary clubs meet weekly and are non-political, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.
The main objective of Rotary is service – in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today’s most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. During and after World War II, Rotarians became increasingly involved in promoting international understanding. In 1945, 49 Rotary members served in 29 delegations to the United Nations Charter Conference. Rotary still actively participates in UN conferences by sending observers to major meetings and promoting the United Nations in Rotary publications. In the area of medicine, Rotary has been in the forefront of the campaign to eradicate polio from the world.
Rotary in China
Rotary was well established in China before the Second World War. The Rotary Club of Beijing was first established on 30 August 1924 as the third club in China, with clubs having already been established in Shanghai in 1919 and Tianjin in 1923. Rotary had established a total of 32 clubs across the country but it had to discontinue its activities after the change of government system in China in 1949.
There are presently two chartered Rotary Clubs in China: Beijing and Shanghai.
The Rotary Club of Shanghai meets for dinner every Tuesday at 18:30 at the Hilton Shanghai, 250 Huashan Road, Shanghai (new location! See their website for further details).
To read more about Rotary International, Rotary in China and Shanghai Rotary Club see the section “Links” on our front page.
Rotary Club of Beijing
District 0052 (website registration only)
Club Number: 60724
regular meetings since 1996
chartered 8 February 2006
Rotary returned to China in 1995 when a Fellowship Group of Rotary Hong Kong was created in Beijing by Rotarian expatriates working in China’s capital city. Later with the status of a “provisional” club, we were privileged to work closely with people in government and key NGOs here to deliver Rotarian support to underprivileged communities using funds raised by our club and sister clubs around the world. We today count more than 60 members from a spectrum of business and professional sectors within the foreign community from more than 20 different countries. We have contributed our funds and our time to a variety of social projects in poverty alleviation, health, special education and the environment.
More details on Rotary history in China and Beijing as well as details about our members will be available soon!
Click here to download the brochure of our Beijing Club:
2008BrochureRCB.pdf
Weekly meetings: see all details in another link, right hand column under “Our Club”.
Club Members: IMPORTANT!
Click this link to learn more about additional rules for “make-up” attendance:
make_up_instructions.pdf
Another way for make-up:
Members can at any time go to some of the special E-Clubs, see here the list – just click on one of the links in this PDF document to navigate to one of the sites.
See here the Make-up certificate from the Rotary E-Club of London Centenary, UK, as received by our Club member Rtn. Norbert.
Club contact:
Club Administrator: Ms. Nancy Liu
Mobile Administrator: +86 136 6112 3134
E-mail: info[at]rotaryclub-beijing.org (Administrator)
Board Members 2009 – 2010
President (2009-2010) John Barnes – Overall responsibility for the Club
President Elect (2010-2011) Henry K.H. Wang – Chair Fundraising Committee
Immediate Past President PP Kevin Fong (2008-2009) – Advisor
Vice President Peter Humphrey – Chair Membership Committee
Secretary Einar Tangen – Chair Club Administration Committee
Treasurer – Jens Dreier
Board Director Josephine Ng – Chair The Rotary Foundation Committee
Board Director Don Schlueter – Chair Service Projects Committee
Board Director Charles Lagrange – chair PR Committee
Club Administrator Nancy Liu-Smolders (not a member of the Board)
Other contributors to Club activities:
Charles Lagrange – Sergeant-at-Arms
Alan Babbington-Smith / Ulrike Nieter – Speakers Programme Coordinator
Peter Danford – Club photographer
Raphael Goue – Ball Chair 2009-10
Ruby Chang – Christmas Bazaar Chair 2009
Sister Clubs
- Rotary Club of Shanghai
- Rotary Club of Hong Kong
- Rotary Club of Hong Kong Metropolitan
- Rotary Club of Hong Kong South
- Rotary Club of Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Rotary Club of Great Neck (NY – USA)
- Rotary Club of Del Mar (California – USA)
and Dulwich College, our Beijing Interact Club as well as the Capital Club Network (Washington DC – USA)
“In this Rotary year, I ask Rotarians everywhere to continue to learn from our experiences and to build upon our successes. I ask you all to continue to work for the health and well-being of not only children but their families and people everywhere. I ask you particularly to focus on water and sanitation, as the scarcity of clean water is an increasingly serious issue in many parts of the world.”
RI President John Kenny
