In September, CEO Roundtable on Cancer Founder, President George H. W. Bush, welcomed His Excellency, WANG Yu, MD, PhD, as Honorary Chairman of CEO Roundtable on Cancer-China. He is the recently retired Director General of the China-CDC. Professor WANG Yu has been a longtime and leading supporter of the CEO Roundtable’s work in China, and in 2016 established the China-CDC as one of its country’s first and foremost Gold Standard accredited workplaces in 2016.

In July of this year, the CEO Roundtable and China-CDC signed a Memorandum of Understanding to further promote the Gold Standard in China and collaborate on the expansion of cancer research, as well as health promotion and cancer prevention efforts in China.