Michael Crook
Vice Chairman
International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives
805, Jilijiayuan Building 3
No.20 Shaoyaoju
Beijing
People’s Republic of China
22 June 2009
Greetings Michael
ICCIC 70th Anniversary Celebration
As National President of the New Zealand China Friendship Society, it gives me much pleasure on behalf of all our branches and members, to send our warm greetings on the 70th anniversary celebration of the original establishment of the International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives in January 1939. We regret that no NZCFS representative is able to be present for this day.
We are immensely proud that one of our Society’s founders, Rewi Alley played a crucial role as field secretary of the Chinese Industrial Co-operative Movement at its formation and in its revival in 1983 followed four years later in 1987 by the revival of the ICCIC just before Rewi’s death.
Our Society is very proud of its membership of ICCIC and ongoing representation on your executive, and wishes you well with the strong continuation of your aims and activities. Our Society’s history is intertwined with that of ICCIC’s especially as our formation dates from 1952, the very year ICCIC and the Gung Ho movement went into recess. This was no doubt as Rewi Alley and others wished to have a structure for the continued support for the People’s Republic of China by New Zealanders.
During my own membership of ICCIC since 1994, I have witnessed the extension and consolidation of the Committee’s activities in line with the growth of the Gung Ho Movement.
We wish all involved in the celebrations the ICCIC, the People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and the Research Center of China Soong Ching Ling Foundation all the very best in fostering the growth and development of the Gung Ho Movement in the new era.
All the very best
Yours Sincerely
Eric Livingsto
National President
New Zealand China Friendship Society Inc
