Thanks to all Chinese community members

Dear all community members and friends,
First of all, I would like to thank all of you who participated in this election. I feel very honored to become the president-elect of DCSSA executive committee. I know that this position means responsibility and commitment. I will work harder to meet the community's expectation.
As you might know, I serve as the vice president of the current committee. The current committee is a very dynamic and active team under Jiayu's leadership. I have learned a lot from the team work and I would like to give my thanks to the current committee members.
I would also like to give my special thanks and comfort to Tong Ren and Jieru Zheng, especially Tong. She has contributed her wisdom, creativity, passion, enthusiasum and energy to DCSSA. She has done a great job in maintaining the website, making DV, organizing tax workshop and springternational. I sincerely hope she could stay in committee and continue her momentum.
I want to take this opportunity to thank Graduate school and International house for their continuous support of the Chinese community.
I will organize a new committee in the transition period. Please write to me if you would like to serve the Chinese community.
Thanks again and I am glad to serve the Chinese community for one more year, let's try our best to make Duke Chinese community a better place.
Xing Zong
President-elect of DCSSA executive committee

Congratulations to the new DCSSA president from the current committee

Dear all community members and friends,
In behalf of the current DCSSA executive committee, I would like to congratulate the elected new president, Mr. Xing Zong. Xing has served DCSSA executive committee as a vice president for one year and we sincerely hope he will lead DCSSA to a new stage during his presidency. We also cordially appreciate Tong Ren and Jieru Zheng’s interests and willingness to campaign for the president. Tong’s previous hard work as DCSSA technical chair and webmaster should also be well recognized and acknowledged.
The current committee would like to thank the whole community and all our friends for your supports and helps during the past year. We will try our best to make the transition as smooth as possible. As the president, I will submit my final report to the new committee and also public before the end of my presidency. The current committee also hopes all of you will consistently support the new committee Xing will organize.
I want to take this opportunity to warmly thank my colleagues in the current committee for all of your excellent jobs. Your voluntary works have certainly made the community more like a family. Thank you.
Once again, congratulations, Xing!

Jiayu Song
Current president of DCSSA executive committee

CHINA table won the *1st place* in Springternational country booth!!!

As China table volunteers from DCSSA, we are so proud of our country and we are very excited to win the 1st place. We would like to thank International Association and Duke Union for organizing this extraodinary event. Special thank goes to Lana from Graduate Student Affairs for her great and long-term support. Thanks to Ms. Harvard, Cloe, and Walter for dropping by our table today.

Last but not least, thanks to our volunteers, without whom we could not have made this happen -
Special thanks to Zheng Gao, Jingyuan Wu, Wenwen Mao, Cheng Chen, Zheng Zhang, Lin Cai, Chenghui Cai.
We thank Jie Hu, Xuyang Sun, Hang Qi, and Xin Huang for their generously support.
We would also like to thank Lixing Chen, Yun Zhao, Boxian Ye, Lingchu Yu, Xing Zong, Qiang Ye, Yi Li, Hanyuan Sun, Junhua Liu, Bin Liu, Jie Hu, Lixian Zhong, Wu Wei and many others for helping out.

we love China and we love Duke,
Tong