By Katrina Wertz | Carolina China Network Campus Director
Hello supporters!
14 days, 1 hour, and 49 minutes remain until it. 100 student delegates hailing from 23 universities will descend upon North Carolina for it. 13 award-winning journalists, analysts, professors, and founders will speak at it.
What is this it being referenced?
Duke and UNC's annual China Leadership Summit!
Our student leadership team has invested more than seven months into designing the conference and arranging each logistical detail. In the process, we have played on each others' strengths and consumed enough dumplings to open a small restaurant. You may ask what has been most challenging, and our unanimous reply is this: making delegate decisions.
Interest in China has been expanding given the country's unprecedented economic growth, and universities are offering incredible programs to meet the popular demand. Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit has emerged as a notable US-China relations conference for students to attend in the Southeast, and this year we received 190 applications, our highest total to date. Not only did the conference generate more applicants than ever before, but we also witnessed the competitive level of talent exhibited by students rise with each new application that we opened! Tough hours of deliberation at last resulted in the applicant pool being wittled down by 47%. We are thoroughly pleased with the high quality of the 2014 CLS delegates.
And now, two weeks away, we are ready.
We advanced because of your generosity in donating to this conference, and we can't wait to report to you what comes out of the Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit in a few weeks!
Thank you so, so much.
The CLS Leadership Team
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