He finished in three hours and 57 minutes, ranking 66th in the 700-plus-person group between ages 65 and 69, and took first place among the 12 Chinese competitors in that group.
He discovered that many Africans believe that all Chinese like to buy ivory. "Yes, China is a big ivory market," he told National Geographic in 2016, "but the Chinese who buy ivory are only an extremely small population, and there are many Chinese who love animals and are working hard to protect them as well.
He cited investment in infrastructure, not just domestically, but also in the wider region, as another new driver of development.
He has been involved in six productions that integrated Chinese opera forms, including the Pulitzer-winning play Our Town written by Thornton Wilder. Shown at Beijing People's Art Theater with an international cast, it boldly combines Peking Opera with English monologues.
He called for continuous strengthening of friendly relations between the two countries so that their friendship will continue to flow forward like the Yangtze and Ganges rivers.
He made the remarks in a congratulatory letter to the Eighth Clean Energy Ministerial and the Second Mission Innovation Ministerial, which opened in Beijing Wednesday.
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He made the remarks after police across the province detained more than 180 suspects in a recent campaign code-named Jufeng 19, which targeted campus loan sharks.
He made the remarks at a news conference in Beijing at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
He claimed that the streamlined processing has allowed his business to save time and money in the building ofa new 72,000-square-meter manufacturing base.
He believed that their efforts "could provide a good example for other European countries in cooperation with China."