• The 2003 annual picnic was successfully held on June 15, 2003, in Busse Lake Preserve, in Schaumburg, IL.
• About 125 members and other professionals attended the picnics
• Members enjoyed the food and weather, met new and old friends, played sports and games.
• The 8th term leadership reported to the last year’s achievement. (see below)
• Two retiring board members (Wayne Shi and Yang Chen) were honored
• Derek Hu was re-elected as the 9th Term president of CCCPA
• Four new directors of the board were elected: Kevin Qian, Ben Gao, Chun Pang Tam, Ruizhi Bu
• Our new entertainment chief, Ruizhi Bu, drew applause from the audience with his singing skills
  

Annual Report by Derek Hu, CCCPA President
On behalf of the 8th term leadership, I am happy to report that we had made tremendous progress last year. The 8th term stood up and delivered. With the exceptional leadership provided by the board and enthusiastic participation by numerous volunteers, CCCPA just experienced the most active period in its history, and it is now THE premium Chinese professional organization in Chicago area. This achievement is all the more significant considering that we were still in a technology down turn, and CCCPA experienced some low level of activities in previous two years.

Highlight of major activities by last term:

• 6/15/03 – Annual Picnics, 125+ people attended
• 2/15/03 – Hosted Chinese Yuanxiao Party, 250+ people attended.
• 10/17/02 - CCCPA 2002 Fall Business and Technology Forum, feature Yi Ping, president of Wanxiang America, 120+ people attended
• 7/15/02 – Annual Picnics, 120 people attended
• Sponsored/co-sponsored three additional China and Business discussions
• Formed Java, Bridge card, Golf, and Entrepreneur Clubs, with over 12 total activities from those clubs

CCCPA Says Thanks to Volunteers--Your dedication made this picnic possible

• Overall Coordination: Derek Hu
• Logistics: Yanchun Xu
• Food: Ben Gao
• Sports: Kevin Qian and Elaine Wang
• Election: Stan Zhou
• Volunteers: Chun Pang Tam, Chen Yang, Julie Zhang, Jay Peng, Pengyi Han, Wayne Shi, Kathy Chen, Cindy Cai, Yan Guo, Kai Liu, Jack Zou, Can Wang

9Th CCCPA Working Team (2003-2004)

As the candidate seeking re-election as next term of CCCPA president, I campaign not as an individual, but as a leader of a group of highly energetic professionals. Collectively, we had organized hundreds of volunteer activities, big and small.

President: Derek Hu (re-elected)

The Working Team (Proposed by Derek Hu, pending board approval)
- Executive VP: Stan Zhou
- Business and Technology Forum Program – Stan Zhou and Wu Hao
- Entertainment Program – Ruizhi Bu, Stan Zhou
- Sports and Outing: Kevin Qian
- Communication (Web, News and Newsletter) – Ben Gao, Chun Pang Tam, Kathy Chen
- Logistics and Registration – Xu Yanchun
- Treasure – Elaine Wang
- Working Team Members: Kai Liu, Rachal Zhang, Julie Zhang, Peter Xu, Janet Liu, Joann Shen

CCCPA Advisors: HAN Pengyi, WANG Zengyu, TAO JianHui

Current CCCPA Clubs
1. Java Club – Yu Jin
2. Golf Club – Kevin Qian
3. Entrepreneur Club – Leo Chen, Ben Gao, and Stan Zhou
4. Bridge Card Club – Stan Zhou
5. Entertainment Club – RuiZhi Bu

9th Board of Directors
H. Derek Hu (default member)
New Directors (2003-2005): Ben Gao, Kevin Qian, Ruizhi Bu, Chun Pang Tam,
Existing Directors (2002-2004): Sheldon Gu, Jay Peng, Elaine Wang, Hao Wu, Yanchun Xu, Stan Zhou

Year 2003-2004 Directions:
1. Continue to promote professionalism, cooperation and information exchange among Chinese professionals in the metropolitan Chicago area
2. Expand Horizontally - Use the club system to broad the appeals of CCCPA to non-IT Chinese professionals with organized professional, entertainment, and sports activities and social gatherings
3. Coordinate Vertically - Initiate a nation wide Chinese IT professional organization in USA (in progress)
4. Enhance opportunity and provide benefits for our members

CCCPA, The Chicago Chinese Computer Professional Association is a not-for-profit organization. It was founded in January, 1995 and officially registered in the State of Illinois in April 1995. CCCPA is currently one of the premium Chinese organizations in the Chinese community in Chicago area.

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