On November 5, 2015, the awarding ceremony of Sanqin Friendship Award for 2015 was held in Yangling by the People’s Government of Shaanxi Province. Mr. John Smith of SXPI was awarded this prize.

Yao Yinliang, vice governor of Shaanxi Province, presented the award to all the awardees including Mr. John Smith. Yao Yinliang said, Shaanxi always persists on the strategic method of bringing in international experts and talents, and has formulated a series of policies in promoting the communication and cooperation on international talents and expert.Recent years, those experts have made great contributions to the economic and social development.Meanwhile, Shaanxi government hopes to write a new chapter for the development of Shaanxi with the foreign experts and talents.

Sanqin Friendship Award, set up by Shaanxi government, aims at praising the foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to Shaanxi.Additionally, it also helps to promote the communication and cooperation between Shaanxi and abroad in various fields. The award was set up in 1999, since then 117 foreign experts have won the prize.In 2015, there are 10 foreign experts won the prize, among which Mr. Smith is the only one from vocational college in Shaanxi.

John Smith comes from Australia and has medical master’s degree.He has worked as a teacher in SXPI’s Business English section of Business Management School since 2009.