Delegations
Chin-Māo delegations are based on friendship and mutual understanding.
Friendship Delegations
The delegations are reciprocal in nature and now generally operate on an annual basis and we make every effort to organise exchanges to suit the interests of the participants. Some delegations are timed to coincide with specific occasions such as commemorations of special events. All delegations from China include home hosting and billeting and an overnight marae stay. Our experience shows that this method offers special insights for Māori who have a desire for closer associations with the Chinese and vice versa. Therefore, we encourage those who participate as a delegate to China to respond by offering a home hosting opportunity to a future Chinese delegation. The duration of a visit is between 9 to 12 days and participation is by invitation.
Education
Chin-Māo is developing the establishment of sound and long lasting relationships between Māori people and Chinese people through a process of educational interactions based on friendship through education. Kura Kaupapa Māori and normal schools that have a high percentage of Māori pupils will form educational, cultural and social exchanges with Chinese Minority People's schools in various Chinese regions. The initiative sees the exchanges and development of languages, cultures and social understandings firstly within and through the young people at school. This will extend through pupil and teacher exchanges to whanau understandings, community involvements and thereby forming a sound relationship base for economic activities.
Business
We look to develop long term business relationships on the basis of friendship and mutual understanding. Chin-Māo is able to provide advice on developing relationships from a cultural perspective to both Chinese and Māori. To achieve this we follow a simple process where we seek to:• Understand what it is you are wishing to achieve through your relationship
• Facilitate an engagement with the decision makers, and
• Support the relationship.
Imperative to the success of the relationship will be that your business goals & objectives match ours in terms of placing friendly relations through cultural understanding as your way of ‘doing business’. If you are interested, contact us now.
Hiwi was supported in this endeavour by his wife Pat and together they hosted many exchange delegations. Over the years each of the Tauroa children has become involved in Chin-Māo and today Chin-Māo is a whanau driven organisation.
Rewi Alley, a New Zealander, came to China in 1927. Sharing wealth and woe with the Chinese people, he devoted 60 years of his life to Chinese people’s cause of liberation and construction. In the 1930s, he joined an international Marxist-Leninist group in Shanghai and wrote many articles publicizing the Chinese people’s resistance against Japanese aggressors. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he took an active part in and was one of the sponsors of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Movement that became a unique economic force that emerged by organizing the unemployed workers and refugees into production and survival and in support of the Resistance War. After the founding of New China, he dedicated his efforts to safeguard world peace and the cause of friendship among the peoples of the world, making important contributions to developing friendship between the Chinese people and the people of New Zealand and other countries.