President Magel visits China and Hong Kong SAR
Land management expert Prof. Magel honoured “Senior Advisor” to Chinese
Government
23 October - 3 November 2006
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Vice Director
Xu Xuelin and Prof. Magel with the appointment
certificate for Senior Advisor.
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Visit to the headquarters of HKIS:
Simon CHI-wo KWOK (left), Vice
Chair of Land Surveying Division, Mr. Dominic SIU, Honorary
Secretary of FIG 2007, President Holger Magel, TN Wong, FIG
Vice President and Mr. Hak CHAN, Chair of the organising
committee of FIG 2007. |
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebrations of former WTUSM and
the 14th “Geoinformatics 2006” in Wuhan, where he delivered both, a
welcome greeting to thousands of excellencies, professors and students and a
keynote speech on “From Surveying to Geomatics and Land Management. About
Future Perspectives of a Changing Discipline and Profession!” FIG
President Holger Magel had meetings with the President and full board
of the new FIG Chinese member CIREA in Beijing. President Magel encouraged
the leaders of CIREA to play a crucial role in FIG, especially in Commission
9. CIREA President and former Vice Minister Song Chun Hua expressed
his great gratitude for the positive voting of the Council and General
Assembly on a second member from China. He pointed out that his association
with about 60,000 members could bring remarkable new energy in this growing
field of surveyors’ activities thus broadening the range of professional
profile.
On the occasion of his visit to the State Ministry of Lands and Resources
Prof. Magel was awarded with the first time to foreign experts given title
of “Senior Advisor of Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Centre,
Ministry of Lands and Resources”. The Vice Minister of the Ministry Lu Xin She, who is simultaneously Director General of the State Bureau
of Mapping and Surveying, expressed deep thanks to Prof. Magel for decades
of support to Chinese government and people. He mentioned that the joint
project of comprehensive village renewal and land consolidation in the
village Nan Zhang Lou, Shandong province, has become pilot and model
character for Chinese rural development initiatives, especially in the
Western region. Lu congratulated Prof. Magel also to his very successful FIG
presidency and – as it was reported to him – a highly appreciated FIG
Congress in Munich.
Before he left for the visit to Hong Kong, Prof. Magel had an official
meeting with a possibly new applicant for FIG membership from Peoples’
Republic of China: It is CREVA, the Chinese Real Estate Valuers Association,
which has about 27,000 members and which is chaired by Vice Minister Lu Xin
She. Different to CIREA members the CREVA experts are specialists for
valuation only of the land but not of the buildings! They are deeply
involved in rural and urban development and are eager to join FIG which was
in former times not possible due to the “only member policy to NGO”. After
the permission of CIREA FIG membership, CREVA now hopes that it could apply
very soon. Magel promised to bring the application immediately to the
outgoing or new Council.
In Hong Kong FIG President Magel had meetings with the Board of FIG
member HKIS in its headquarters. He also visited the venue of Working Week
2007, The Kowloon Shangri La Hotel, and gave a luncheon speech on FIG
activities, especially about the in fact very broad range of disciplines and
interests, thus underlining that FIG members are not only land surveyors.
Especially those colleagues of HKIS who are working in the field of
valuation and real estate management were very satisfied about the speech of
Prof. Magel. HKIS President Wong Chung Hang thanked President Magel
for his impressive visions and strategies and described him as “one of
the greatest surveyors in presence worldwide”. The lunch was attended by
high officials of Hong Kong Government and functionaries and corporate
members of FIG like Vice President TN Wong, former Commission 9 Chair
Stephen Yip and Leica, Intergraph, ESRI and applicant Bentley.
On the last part of his Hong Kong visit, FIG President had a meeting with
new member (the 100th!), HKInstES Honorary President Mannars T.C. Chan.
He was the driving force of his institution’s application for FIG
membership. Together with Mannars T.C. Chan, who was a perfect guide to
President Magel during his inspection tour through big infrastructure
projects (bridges, cable cars, buildings etc.) in Hong Kong, where members
of HKInstES were involved, FIG President had a meeting with FIG academic
member, the Department of Land Surveying and Geoinformatics of the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University. Prof. Chen Yong-Qi, Head of the Department,
explained the goals of academic surveyors’ education at his university and
his interest to contribute to FIG Working Week 2007 in Hong Kong. Prof.
Magel encouraged HKInstES and the Polytechnic University to join actively
the preparations of Working Week 2007 thus demonstrating the variety of
surveyor’s profession in Hong Kong.
Presentations of President Holger Magel:
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Prof. Holger Magel: FIG President’s Welcome Address to the 50th
Anniversary Celebration of WTSUM on 28 October 2006. Wuhan, China P.
R.
- President Holger Magel: From Surveying to Geomatics and Land
Management. About Future Perspectives of a Changing Discipline and
Profession. Presentation at the 14th International Conference on
Geoinformatics (Geoinformatics 2006) – The 21st Century’s Geoinformatics.
Wuhan, China P.R., October 28-29, 2006.
- President Holger Magel: FIG Vision, Mission and Activities - Promoting
Sustainable Development. Luncheon Address at the Hong Kong Institute of
Surveyors (HKIS), 2 November 2006.
FIG President
Holger Magel visit CIREA having meeting with Dr.
Song Chunhua, President of CIREA and other board members. |
President Song and President Magel.
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Lunch with CIREA Board members, Prof.
Liao Junping (Patrick),
Vice President of CIREA in the middle. |
President Magel visits Renmin University of China that is considering to
joing FIG.
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Visit to Renmin University of China.
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Meeting with Vice Chair and Secretary General of CREVA. |
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Prof. Magel's Certificate for Senior Advisor. |
Vice Minister
Lu Xinshe with FIG pin. |
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President Magel and Vice Minister Lu, Director General of SBSM. |
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50th Anniversary of the Wuhan University in open air. |
50th Anniversary of the Wuhan University.
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50th Anniversary celebration of the Wuhan University. |
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President Magel making his address the 50th Anniversary Celebration. |
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Vice Minister Lu Xinshe and President Magel.
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50th Anniversary celebrations at the Wuhan University. |
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Reception after the 50th Anniversary was given by Vice Minister Lu
Xinshe. In the picture: Milan Konecny, Holger Magel, Martin
Molenaar and other invited guests. |
Geoinformatics 2006 in Wuhan. The conference was attended by prominent
speakers.
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Surveyors Lunch at HKIS.
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President Magel at Surveyors Lunch with Mr.
Wong C. H., President
of HKIS. |
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President Magel with HKIS members and members of the organising
committee of FIG 2007.
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President Magel with President Wong and Director of Lands of Lands
Department of Government, HKSAR Patrick L.C. Lau. |
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President Magel making his speech at the lunch. |
President Wong and President Magel. |
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On site inspection of venue of Working Week 2007 at the Shangri-La hotel
with Vice President TN Wong and Jacqueline Chan, Assistant
Director of Events Management from the hotel. |
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FIG President with HKInstES Honorary President and driving force of FIG
membership application Mannars T.C. Chan. |
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President Magel and Mr.
Russel Black, Director of the Mass
Transit Railway Corporation Project. |
Mannars Chan and Prof. Magel in Lantau.
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Highway to the new airport-under control measurement of HKInstES
members.
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FIG president visits FIG academic member The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Department of Land Surveying and Geoinformatics. The Chair
Prof. Chen Yong-Qi and his staff. |
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