N.C. Center for Creative Retirement to Host Talk on China's Economy

UNC Asheville will host a talk on “China: The Sleeping Giant Wakes,” by TraveLearn President Edwin Williams at 11:45 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 11, at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center. He will discuss the historical and cultural factors that helped shape China as an economic superpower. The event is free and open to the public. A question-and-answer session will follow.

Williams’ company, TraveLearn, provides educational vacations for senior citizens. He has traveled to China ten times since the early 1980s and has been a witness to the remarkable economic growth of China since the inception of its free-market economy. Williams traveled to China a few months before the 1989 uprising in Tienman Square and in 1999 and 2003 visited the Three Gorges Dam Project. Williams was also honored as an “Ambassador of International and Cultural Understanding” at the 2,550th birthday celebration of Confucius. He was in China for their first manned space flight and recently witnessed the 16th Party Congress of the Communist Party, during which capitalist entrepreneurs were introduced into the Party.

For more information, call Denise Snodgrass, N.C. Center for Creative Retirement assistant director, at 828/251-6188.

 Media Contacts:

• Denise Snodgrass, NC Center for Creative Retirement assistant director, 828/251-6188
• Jill Yarnall, UNC Asheville Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526