CAItech Co-founder Wins National Friendship Award

Beijing, China, Oct. 1, 1999 - Dr. Shawn Buckley and his wife, Margo Buckley, were presented with the National Friendship Award, the highest honor that China gives a foreigner.  They were chosen from among the 80,000 foreign experts that help China open up to the West.  Their honor was for their decade of service in China's central Hubei Province.  The Buckleys won the province's nomination to the National Award last month.

Today was China's 50th Anniversary, commemorating the day 50 years ago when Chairman Mao Zedong marched into Beijing after his victory over the Chinese Nationalists.  Dr. and Mrs. Buckley watched the day-long parade from the viewing stands of Tiananmen Tower, overlooking Tiananmen Square.  The parade included precision Chinese military units, floats from each province, cultural delegations plus one of China's largest-ever fireworks displays.

Last night the Buckleys attended a banquet at the Great Hall of the People.  The meal was a duplicate of the dinner served to Chairman Mao fifty years ago, complete with the pumpkin soup that has become a tradition in Chinese banquets.  President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji addressed the banquet which was also attended by Dell Chairman Michael Dell and Ericsson CEO Kurt Hellstrom.

Shawn Buckley is the co-founder of CAItech, a Silicon Valley manufacturer of 3D inspection and scanning machines.  CAItech licenses technology from Huazhong University of Science (HUST) in Wuhan, Hubei Province.  He has been an consulting professor at HUST since 1993 where he teaches classes on marketing, entrepaneurship and quality control.  Margo Buckley teaches classes on Western culture and philosophy.  With university President Zhou Ji, she began the "English Month" program to teach English speaking and listening to HUST's 3500 graduate students.  The Buckleys are also Foreign Experts for the city of Wuhan, teaching Western culture to the city's young leaders.

Computer Aided Inspection Technologies, Inc. is a privately held California corporation manufacturing next-generation automated inspection equipment. Established in 1997, CAItech is located in San Jose, CA in the heart of California's Silicon Valley electronics industry.
CAItech can be reached at (408) 226-0642, or on the web at www.caitech.com .