Gavin, DiFi 2005 Delegation to China, with handy Cali China Friendship Timeline!

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP HIGHLIGHTS

1980-2005

1979

Former Mayor of San Francisco Dianne Feinstein formed the San Francisco-Shanghai Sister City Committee.

1980

In 1980, former Mayor of San Francisco Dianne Feinstein visits Shanghai for the first time and establishes the Sister City Relationship with former and current President of Association for Relations Across Taiwan Straits Mayor Wang Daohan.

1984

Medical exchange programs begin

Establishment of the American Foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Business Management Program.

1985

First class of the Business Management Program is formed.

1987

Shanghai Judges Delegation is formed.

1988

Agricultural Delegation is formed.

1990

Shanghai Hotel Delegation is formed.

1991

Former Mayor of Shanghai and former Premier of China Zhu Rongji visits San Francisco.

1992

Former Mayor of Shanghai and the Executive Vice Premier of China Huang Ju visits San Francisco.

San Francisco-Shanghai Sister City Committee is awarded the Rotary International Awards for "Most Outstanding Friendship Program."

1994

Shanghai Week in San Francisco.

1995

Former Mayor Frank Jordan's visit to Shanghai.

1996

Sports Exchanges begin

Former Mayor and former President of China Jiang Zemin visits San Francisco and dedicates the Maletesta Library at the University of San Francisco's Center for the Pacific Rim.

1997

Former Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr. visits Shanghai.

1998

San Francisco Week in Shanghai.

Agricultural Exchanges continues.

2002

Former Mayor and former President of China Jiang Zemin.

2003

Funding to Ricci Institute for the Shanghai Library Catalogue project.

2004

Most recent class (7th) of the Business Management Program is formed

2005

Mayor Han Zheng visits San Francisco.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, Mayor Gavin Newsom, and over 50 delegates embark on San Francisco Trade and Friendship Mission to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong organized by James Fang, Chairman and the San Francisco-Shanghai Sister City Committee.

New projects between San Francisco and Shanghai include:

• A Shanghai Healing Garden at University of California San Francisco's Osher Center.

• Middle School Exchanges.

• Business Management Program executive fellows are sent to Shanghai.

• Policy and Public Security Exchanges.

• San Francisco Symphony, led by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, will embark on a historic two-week tour in China.

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BRIDGE PHAMACEUTICALS & Gavin Newsom:

Bridge Pharmaceuticals yesterday dedicated its recently completed Bridge Zhongguancun Preclinical Drug Development Laboratory I.

In attendance at the ceremony were: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom; Deputy Mayor Beijing Municipal Office Hao Lu; Beijing Deputy Mayor Bo-Yuan Fan; US Embassy Senior Commercial Officer Craig Allen; Former Beijing Deputy Mayor Zhao-Guang Hu; Director of Beijing Municipal Industrial Development Bureau Lian-Yuan Cheng; Director of Beijing Municipal Science Technology Office Hai Feng; and Former San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordon.

This 7,800 square meter facility puts Bridge at the forefront of preclinical outsourcing to China and will be the first and only US level GLP and AAALAC designed facility in China. The Zhongguancun facility will house primates, rodents, canines, rabbits. Services will include: FDA compliant GLP toxicology, pharmacology, predictive PK/ADMET, safety pharmacology, formulation and other services. Through its Vital Bridge joint venture, Bridge has expert local partners in China that provide animal supplies from the largest and only US-franchised (Charles River and Marshall Farms) quality animal breeding facilities in China.

For Bridge, the opening of this facility marks the next phase in outsourcing preclinical drug development to Asia. By controlling its own facility in China, Bridge will have the capacity and expertise to provide FDA compliant preclinical drug development services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies throughout the world. This new facility positions Bridge as the leading preclinical CRO in China targeting US and EU biopharmaceutical companies.

"The San Francisco Bay Area is the birthplace of biotech and has remained the worldwide leader in life sciences innovation. Escalation of the price of drugs, as evidenced by California's recent ballot initiative, is an increasing hardship and concern," said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

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