In 1919, Roger D. Pinneo, the past president of the Rotary Club of Seattle, established the first Rotary club in Shanghai on 17 July 1919 with 35 charter members. Rotary admitted the club on 1 October 1919. The club met regularly until WW II. In 1951, the club was formally disbanded, as were all mainland China clubs by the end of 1952.More than half a century later, in 2006, the Rotary Club of Shanghai returned along with the Rotary Club of Beijing (originally chartered n 1924; chartered again in 2006). Due to government restrictions, only foreign nationals may join.
Since the May 12 earthquake, Bill Chiang, a resident of Chengdu and an honorary member of the Rotary Club of San Francisco Golden Gate has been coordinating Rotary related relief efforts. Thanks to the efforts of Chiang and other Rotarians, ShelterBox and LifeBox, two disaster relief organizations with Rotary ties, have been able to ship aid containers to the region
The Rotary Club of Beijing raised US $8,600 to purchase baby formula and received $14,400 worth of additional baby supplies for an orphanage in Chengdu.
The Rotary Club of Shanghai plans to donate $21,000 raised from its annual charity golf tournament to earthquake relief projects.
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