The 20th BlueStar Summer Camp officially opened at the Beijing sub-camp on July 20th. Apart from over 1,000 children of Chinese employees, the camp this year has also attracted 40 children of foreign employees of BlueStar's overseas businesses in France, UK and Australia, making it a truly international event this year.
Themed as BlueStar - We Are Family, the camp featured a series of activities such as cultural exchanges and visits to ancient architectural sites, famous institutions of higher learning, Olympic Games venues and major museums, plus learning Chinese language and culture and experiencing Chinese traditions. Former camp members who are now foreign studies majors were invited to be camp instructors and interpreters.
Mr. Ren Jianxin, founder of the camp and now President of ChemChina, and Mr. Bai Xinping, Acting President of BlueStar, handed over the camp banner at the Beijing branch camp. Addressing the opening ceremony, Mr. Ren expressed great satisfaction about the camp going global.
"The BlueStar Summer Camp has become increasingly better to attract wide social attention. Adhering to our principle of human orientation, we attach great importance to the all-round development of our children. By integrating education with recreational activities, we are trying our best to turn our children into qualified persons with sound moral integrity, strong will, rich knowledge, team spirit and broad horizons. In organizing the summer camp for 20 consecutive years, we have reaped unexpected fruits: it has helped better educate our children, imparted knowledge to them, and enriched their social experiences, especially passing on the unique corporate culture of BlueStar from one generation to the next. This is extremely meaningful for the long-term development of the company and its corporate culture. Therefore, the summer camp is an important event we will carry on further."
At the opening ceremony, representative camp members and instructors made speeches in both Chinese and English, which quickly bridged the communication gap between Chinese and foreign camp members. All the children expressed their readiness to learn from and respect each others' ways of life, enhance communication and strengthen the friendship among them all as members of the big BlueStar family.
Founded in 1990, the BlueStar Summer Camp has grown and improved continuously along with the rapid development of BlueStar Group. The size of the camp has also progressively grown to include the children of employees at BlueStar headquarters as well as those at different subsidiaries across China.
The Beijing Branch Camp visited the Chemical Industry Museum of China on the first day of the camp.