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Philanthropic pursuits bring Milstein family closer to China Author: Rebecca Lin Source: Sino-US.

com Update Time: 2016-11-09 Howard Milstein, chairman of the Milstein Medical Asian American Partnership Foundation, was presented with the Marco Polo Award Photo: Sino-US.com by Rebecca Lin Howard Milstein, an esteemed American entrepreneur and philanthropist from New York, was granted the

2016 Marco Polo Award recently in Beijing for bringing together leading medical talent and institutions from China and US and funding their exchanges. Mr. Milstein established the Milstein Medical Asian American Partnership (MMAAP) Foundation in 2011, with the goal to improve world health by developing mutually beneficial partnerships between the US and China. Since its inception, the foundation has awarded over

30 Fellowships and Project Awards with annual donations of nearly USD

1 million in five targeted medical fields ― Senior Healthcare, Skin Disease, Reproductive Biology, Blood Research, and Translational Medicine. Max Baucus, the US Ambassador to China, attended the award ceremony at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in late October. He told sino-us.com that Milstein represents the best relationship between the US and China with his attitude having improved the friendship of the two countries. He is a leader of generosity, vision and values. People should follow him, said Baucus. Column Map Laowai in China Artist Foreigners in Chinese Revolution Chinese Profile My Chinese Dream Most read this week China weighs giving Wall Street investment banks greater mainland access US documentary about human evolution set to be released in China in

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s Naoko Takagi died of cancer Howard Milstein delivers the keynote speech at the awarding ceremony. Photo: Sino-US.com by Rebecca Lin Milstein delivered the keynote speech, noting that the partnership in medical research that he'

s improving on is a part of a broader partnership between the two countries, which he believes, would be the most important in the world over the next several decades. He concluded his speech with the Chinese expression Zhong Xi He Bi (中西合璧), meaning the combination of the East and West, to emphasize that combination is always greater than individual pieces. The Marco Polo Award, the highest honor accorded to non-Chinese citizens, was founded in the 1990s. So far, more than

30 entrepreneurs, social activists and politicians from across the world, including former US President George H.W. Bush, have received the award. Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri won the

2015 Marco Polo Award for his company'

s contribution to China'

s network communication technology innovation. Howard Milstein sat down with sino-us.com to talk about his family'

s long-time philanthropic pursuits and their deep ties to China that have inspired him, the leader of the Milstein business and philanthropic empire'