Michael Lindsay tunes a radio receiver at the Jinchaji base in Hebei province sometime between 1941 and 1944. (web pic)
Chinese President Xi Jinping told stories about interactions between Chinese and British peoples in old and modern times in an address to members of Houses of Parliament and other guests at Westminster Palace Tuesday.
Twenty-Four Chinese naval cadets: During the WWII, 24 Chinese naval cadets took part in the Battle of Normandy. Their courage and bravery were praised by Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Michael Lindsay: The Englishman arrived in China in 1938 intending merely to teach Keynesian economics. Instead, he was inspired to play a crucial role in the country's resistance against the invading Japanese forces.
He helped to smuggle vital supplies to guerrilla fighters during World War II and spent years behind enemy lines, where he even started a family. After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he left Beijing for the Jinchaji base where he became a full-time radio technician for the armed farmers.
Anna Cross: The British nurse became the first in the world to take an experimental drug from China which helped her recover from the deadly virus Ebola.
Corporal Anna Cross, a medical reservist in the British Army, had been infected with Ebola in the West African nation of Sierra Leone, where a detachment of several hundred British military personnel are deployed to help tackle Ebola.
Cross, aged 25, was treated in a specialist high-level isolation unit (HLIU) at the Royal Free Hospital in London where she was admitted on March 12.
Doctors used the new drug MIL-77 to treat her, after which she was released.
Bates and his wife arrive at Zaozhuang, east China's Shandong province on Aug. 26. (web pic)
Lord Michael Bates: The minister of state at the Home Office in UK started in July his 1,600 km-walk in China for fund raising. He wanted to raise 500,000 yuan to support Chinas public welfare project.
In more than 60 days, He and his wife passed by five provinces including Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He visited ruins of the Sino-Japanese War and carry out cultural exchange and charitable activities along the road.
