Ambassador Liu Xiaoming and Madam Hu Pinghua Host Farewell Reception
（From Chinese Embassy in UK）
2021/01/26
On 25 January, Ambassador Liu Xiaoming and Madam Hu Pinghua held an online farewell reception, where Ambassador Liu delivered a speech entitled Serve with Sincerity All the Way Through. Madam Hu also made a few farewell remarks. Jenny Bates, Director General, Indo-Pacific at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, spoke on behalf of the British side.
Around 500 guests attended the event on-line, including Lord Udny-Lister, Prime Minister's Chief Strategic Adviser and Downing Street Chief of Staff, Lord Heseltine, former Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, David Lidington, former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Jeremy Hunt, former Foreign Secretary, Sir Oliver Letwin, former Minister for Government Policy in the Cabinet Office, Mark Sedwill, former UK Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service and National Security Adviser, Stanley Johnson, former Member of the European Parliament, Sir Douglas Flint, UK's Special Envoy to the BRI, Lord Cable, former Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Lord Powell, Lord Sassoon, Lord Howell, Lord Bates, Lord Green, Lord O'Neill, Lord Wilson, Lord Davidson, Lord McNally, Lord Dobbs, Lord Giddens, Lord Desai, Lord Soley, Richard Graham MP, Chairman of APPCG, Mark Logan MP, Mark Hendrick MP, Lisa Cameron MP, Philip Dunne MP, Liam Byrne MP, Barry Gardiner MP, Alderman William Russell, Lord Mayor of the City of London, Sir Charles Bowman and Peter Estlin, former Lord Mayors of the City of London, John Le Fondré, UK Chief Minister of Jersey, Peter Weir, Education Minister of Northern Ireland, Alex Maskey, Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Frank Ross, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Barney Crockett, Lord Provost of Aberdeen, Anthony Samuels, Chairman of Surrey County Council, Sir Sherard, Chairman of China-Britain Business Council, Stephen Perry, Chairman of the 48 Group Club, Mark Tucker, Group Chairman of HSBC, Noel Quinn, Chief Executive of HSBC, Sir John Peace, Chairman of the Midlands Engine in Britain, Sir George Iacobescu, Chairman of Canary Wharf Group, Barnaby Swire, Chairman of Swire Group, José Viñals, Group Chairman of Standard Chartered, Bill Winters, Chief Executive of Standard Chartered, Julia Buckingham, President of Universities UK, Sir Martin Davidson, Chairman of the Great Britain-China Centre, Richard Catlow, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, Michael Wood, President of the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, David Marsh, Chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, Kitack Lim, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, Phil Diamond, Director General of the SKAO, and Richard Hatchett, CEO of Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and other representatives from the British government, Parliament, sectors of business, education, culture, science, technology, think tank, and media, and international organizations in the UK, members of London diplomatic corps, Zheng Xiyuan, Ma Qiang, and Zhang Meifang, Consul Generals of China in Manchester, Edinburgh, and Belfast respectively, Fang Wenjian, Chairman of China Chamber of Commerce in the UK, Chu Ting Tang, President of London China Town Chinese Association, Shan Sheng, President of the UK Chinese Association for the Promotion of National Reunification, Christine Lee, Chair of British Chinese Project, as well as representatives from the Chinese community, Chinese entities and overseas Chinese students in the UK.