Later today Ian Cawsey, the MP for Brigg & Goole, will present a prize to the overall winner of our Chinese writing competition.
We challenged local primary schoolchildren to write the slogan for the Beijing Olympics — One World One Dream — using Chinese characters, and to decorate the page in an imaginative way.
The overall winner, chosen by Coco Zhao, one of our senior Mandarin and Cantonese linguists, was ten-year-old Alex Smith from Marshlands Primary School in Old Goole. (Click on the picture to see a larger version of Alex's winning entry.)
Mr Cawsey will be taking part in a prize-giving ceremony at the school this morning. He will be joined by Coco, Carolyn Burgess (our chief exec) and Colin Pepler (our national sales manager).
The winner in the reception to year 2 age group was 4-year-old Eve Atkinson from Carlton-in-Snaith Community Primary School.
Meanwhile, together with the Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce, we're making the final preparations for a trade mission to Qingdao, which leaves in just under a fortnight. One of China's most important ports, Qingdao will be hosting the Olympic sailing events later this year.