YLF stands for Young Leaders Forum, or YLF of NCUSCR (National Committee of US Chian Relationships). I am a proud member of YLF - I am a YLF 2007 fellow. I have completed my two year YLF session in 2008, but as an alumini, I am looking forward to participate in the future YLF events. In this category, you can find out my experience with YLF, my great friends I met during YLF, and my plans regarding YLF.
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Articles in YLF
Wrapping up YLF Xi'an Trip
Oct 30,
2011 I am wrapping up this year's YLF trip on the flight from Xi'an to Shanghai. I said farewell to my dearest friends today, after singing the song of all...
Songs are One of the Culture Gaps
Oct 29,
2011 This year's YLF ended tonight, with a mad karaok until mid-night of both the Chinese and American participants. It was so fun to sing a Chinese song and an...
Reflection of My 5 Years of YLF
Oct 29,
2011 This is the summary of what I talked during this year's YLF about my personal experience of the program The theme of this year's YLF is YLF Time Capsule...
Jade Valley Winery in Lantian
Oct 28,
2011 YLF has unique connections. The second day conference were held in unique places. June connected us with Shui Lu An where she helped to preserve, and Haisong and Phil...
YLF in Xi'an
Oct 27,
2011 I cannot believe it that it is the tenth anniversary of YLF (Young Leader's Forum). It is the biggest personal commitment I made during the last five years to...
Arrived at Xi'an
Oct 26,
2011 Wow. What a busy day. With two meetings in two places, and many meetings in the office. I even left my laptop in the Peace Hotel (and finally found...
Great YLF Dinner in Shanghai
Apr 22,
2011 Finally, we had 10 persons for the YLF gather. Todd, and Gregg flew from US, and others from Xia'men and Beijing... Jian Shuo Haisong Greg Todd Ming Hong Ron...
YLFers Gathered to Pray for Gabrielle Giffords
Jan 10,
2011 I didn't expect a normal Sunday morning started with beeping of many email alerts on my phone. It was from the email threads from YLFer friends that I heard...
Timber Cove, Sonoma
Oct 20,
2010 This year's YLF (Young Leaders Forum, National Committee on US-China Relationships) took place in Timber Cove, Sonoma county, California. I have decided to make time for this great event...
Concluding my YLF Trip in Xiamen
Nov 10,
2009 I am currently in a small hotel called Yoyou Inn (photos) on Gulangyu. We have finished the 3 day of YLF 2009 Forum in Xiamen, and the three day...
Day 2 of YLF 2009
Nov 5,
2009 During the discussion at night, we started to talk about voice mail - why there is no voice mail in China. I happened to write a Chinese blog about...
Day 1 of YLF 2009
Nov 5,
2009 Day 1 of YLF 2009. Just finished the morning sessions, and the afternoon will happen in Gulang Yu (the tomorrow's afternoon session will be in Nan Putuo Temple). The...
Flying to Xiamen for YLF 2009
Nov 3,
2009 I am flying to Xiamen tomorrow to attend the YLF 2009 (Young Leader's Forum). Very excited and cannot wait to see the great people there. I will be in...
Chris is Going to Space Again
Jul 14,
2009 This is on NASA's website: T-20 Minutes and Holding Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:38:11 AM GMT+0800 The countdown clock at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has paused as...
Good Luck Endeavour and Chris
Jun 12,
2009 I just dropped a short email to Christopher, who will be on board of Endeavour Space Shuttle, to say good luck. His journey to the International Space Station on...
Congratulations to Andrew McLaughlin
May 31,
2009 Another piece of YLF (Young Leader's Forum) news: Andrew is going to be the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of Obama Administration. (Source: Google’s Top Policy Executive to Join Obama...
Eighth YLF Meeting in November
Mar 5,
2009 YLF 2009 Time Just got email from Jon that the eighth YLF (Young Leader's Forum) meeting will happen in November 4-8, 2009, in China. The location is not confirmed...
Letter from NCUSCR
Dec 25,
2008 On Christmas, I received email from Steve Orlins, president of National Committee on US-China Relationships about a dinner we had with US mayors on Sept 12, 2008 - it...
Thanks Matt Isler!
Nov 10,
2008 I got a small post card from my YLF friend Matt Isler. Photograph by Jian Shuo Wang. Chinese character written by Matt. What a great friend I have! Thanks...
Erik Paulsen and Gabrielle Giffords
Nov 6,
2008 Got a special note from YLF: Hearty congratulations to YLFers Erik Paulsen (2005 Fellow) and Gabrielle Giffords (2003 Fellow) for winning their respective U.S. House of Representatives races! In...
Back from Jiangyin
Oct 11,
2008 Spent the Friday night in Jiangyin, Wuxi, China. Robert Cao from YLF hosted us in his Germany Beer Festival. Had wonderful time there. Just get back from the trip....
Random Note During Meeting
Sep 24,
2008 YLF Title 9 - what is this? Women in sports as background of what she did - much better cause to do things. 30 years of reform since 1979....
Salsa Dance Place in Seattle
Sep 21,
2008 After we have dinner with D-WA congressman Rick, many of YLFers head back to hotel. I went to a Salsa dancing place in Seattle with Ashish, Tong, Ming, Mark,...
Jian Shuo Wang Becomes Wang Jian Shuo
Sep 21,
2008 During this trip to YLF, and recent other trips in US, I just realized in more and more occasions, my name is printed as Wang Jian Shuo instead of...
Photos from YLF Snoqualmie, WA
Sep 21,
2008 Let me first post this photo Robert Yung took during our stay in Salish Lodge. The point where the photo was taken is very close to where we stayed....
Float Over the River of Snoqualmie
Sep 20,
2008 Just get back from the river floating of Snoqualmie River. I am still waiting Ashish to send over the great photos he took when we were on the boat,...
First Two Sessions of YLF 2008
Sep 20,
2008 Just finished the first two sessions of YLF (The Young Leader's Forum) this morning. It is a wonderful presentation, and I am so happy that I have get rid...
Juilliard Orchestra Coming to Shanghai
Jun 1,
2008 Good news. Juilliard Orchestra is coming to Shanghai Grand Theater from June 4, and June 5. I would completely ignore the event since the embarrassingly lack of knowledge of...
YLF 2008 in Snoqualmie, WA
May 28,
2008 This year's Young Leaders Forum (YLF) will be held in Snoqualmie, WA, USA, from September 18, to September 22, 2008, after it was held successfully in Nanjing last year....
Is Guanxi Important?
Dec 21,
2007 YLF Many books about China says: "Guanxi is important in China". Many people do research based on the books. Many foreigners know Guanxi is important in China. The problem...
YLFer Gather in Shanghai
Dec 16,
2007 This entry is intended to notify YLFers (Young Leaders Forum) participants about the FYLer gather in Shanghai. Hopefully, many of you have subscribed to the Young Leaders Forum Fellow...
Saw June with Michael Bloomberg
Dec 10,
2007 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in Beijing today. Although I heard many great things about Mr. Bloomberg from my friends, I am not interested in him as much...
Young Leaders Forum Fellow Blog Feed
Dec 9,
2007 We need to leverage new technology, don't we? I volunteered to create an aggregated Young Leaders Forum Fellow Blog Feed. The URL of this feed is http://tinyurl.com/2zc4vz. There are...
Atlantis Launch Delayed
Dec 9,
2007 Just as many of my friends (and readers) in U.S and Europe started to pay attention to Shanghai news in their local TV station when we meet each other,...
Back from Wonderful YLF Trip in Nanjing
Dec 5,
2007 I am back from the wonderful trip in Nanjing. Allow me sometime to catchup with the blog. The intensive 3 days in Nanjing and the following extension trip were...
The Topic of This Year's YLF
Nov 12,
2007 The topic of this year's Young Leader Forum is: Challenge. After I got the exciting invitation for Young Leaders Forum of National Committee on United States-China Relationship. Haisong was...
Got Invitation of Young Leaders Forum
Aug 30,
2007 On Aug 24, 2007, I got invitation for the Yong Leaders Forum of National Committee of US-China Relations. I will become 2007 Fellow of the Forum and participant in...
NCUCR Visit
Jun 29,
2006 Thanks to my good friend Haisong. He was so kind to invite me to the lunch with the distinguished guest from the Public Intellectuals Program of the The National...