Your Yale-China Stories

Your stories and experiences reflect the depth and breadth of relationships we've built around the globe for 125 years. From classroom exchanges to medical collaborations, from cultural programs to lifelong friendships, these connections continue to strengthen ties between our people around the globe. You can read your fellow community members' stories here and see the remarkable ways Yale-China has shaped lives and careers across generations.

 
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Mayor Justin Elicker: Looking Forward to Many More Years of Connection and Understanding
Community, Interview
Mayor Justin Elicker: Looking Forward to Many More Years of Connection and Understanding
Community, Interview

My hope is that initiatives like the Yale-China Association that have had such long roots in New Haven can play an increasingly important role in helping us understand one another, understand that we’re human beings, connect with one another, and set aside those small differences that we might have. My hope is in the many years to come we continue to foster those kind of relationships and more and more people can experience that connection with one another...

Happy 125th anniversary! It’s an exciting time for our city and we’re so grateful to the Yale-China Association for everything that you have done for our city.

非常感谢雅礼协会为NewHaven所做的一切！

— Justin Elicker, Mayor of New Haven

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Barry Wu: Some History of the Medical Education of Yale-China
Health, Trustee, Interview
Barry Wu: Some History of the Medical Education of Yale-China
Health, Trustee, Interview

I got involved two decades ago, in 2006… China had expressed interest in medical education and exchange because there was no residency training program there. They only had the “barefoot doctor” as well as minimal training… We began to have exchanges of delegations coming from Changsha, China to here, as well as we were going there. Over the ensuing years we shared with them our United States model of training… In 2014 they established the Chinese Residency Training Program and that’s nationwide. Over the ensuing years, they have trained over one million residents. You have one million residents and they’re seeing thousands of patients a day. You can only imagine the impact of that.

— Barry Wu, Former Trustee

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