Fil-Chinese Federation to sign Cooperation MOU with Anvil Business Club

Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII), the largest organization in our Chinese community, on June 8 hosted a dinner meeting for Anvil Business Club (ABC) 2005 Board of Directors in Emerald Garden Restaurant in Roxas Boulevard, Manila. The main topic for discussion was cooperation between the two organizations, for better public service to the Filipino-Chinese youth of our generation and how to undertake joint projects beneficial to the Philippine economy.
Dinner meeting hosts Federation officials were led by President Francis Chua, Vice-Presidents Alfonso Uy, Alfonso Siy, Tan Ching, Executive Director Alfredo Yao and other top officers of their Youth Committee.
The 3-hours dinner meeting was animated, frank, cordial, filled with lots of humor and refreshing new ideas on how both organizations can best cooperate to be of better service to our Filipino Chinese community and most especially our youth generation.
In behalf of Anvil Business Club, Wilson Lee Flores said that bigness or being a major organization is not the real asset of our organization but the exceptional quality, immense talents, great energies, high idealism, teamwork and aggressive dynamism of all our 16 officers in the 2005 Board of Directors and our fast-growing membership. He thanked Federation for hosting the dinner meeting, for their goodwill to our group, and that Anvil Business Club is honored to have this unique opprtunity to work together with Federation and to be able to gain advices from our community elders. He expressed Anvil's willingness to cooperate with the Federation on future major joint projects.
Federation President Francis Chua was very humble, explaining that their organization's Youth Committee originally wanted to invite Anvil to join them or to have joint projects with them, but he said that they recognize that Anvil Business Club is now a major organization and dynamic, they felt it was only proper that Federation and Anvil sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Cooperation to undertake major projects to help our Filipino-Chinese youth. Francis Chua invited Anvil to become an affiliate or associate member group of Federation, so that Federation will have an obligation to continuously support our major projects, but he stressed that the proposed arrangement shall maintain Anvil Business Club's independence and identity.
Wilson Lee Flores also pointed out that we at Anvil Business Club take pride in the growing contributions to the Federation of Anvil past Chairmen David Chua, Michael G. Tan and Bernard Go, and foresee their becoming future leaders of the Federation. Our officer Bobby Sy is also active with the Bulacan Filipino-Chinese Chamber, and past Chairman Peter Mangasing is also leader of the electrical industry association, while past Chairman Steven Cua is now also President of Philippine Amalgamated Association of Supermarkets (PAGASA).
One of the major concerns discussed by both groups was how to aggressively promote the Hokkien dialect, Past Chairman Mike Tan gave his ideas on the importance of reforming Chinese-language education and promote Chinese/Confucian cultural values to our youth generation nationwide. A lot of major joint projects on a national scale had been discussed.
Anvil Business Club (ABC) is grateful to the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII) for their goodwill, for their outstanding and dynamic leadership of our Chinese community in the Philippines for the past half century, and for their welcoming cooperation with our organization.