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Echoes Towards Gratitude

Since 1997, Anthony has been taking an active role in community affairs. He was
Senior Vice President of the Chinese Catholic Community Inc. He became a member of the

Lions Club of Sydney Chinese in 1999 and has been elected Club President on nine separate
occasions. He was District Governor of Lions District 201N5 which covers the Sydney
Metropolitan area in 2014-2015.

With friends from Xian City, ShaanXi Province, he formed the Australian Shaanxi
Overseas Friendship Association in 2002 and became its President. Ten years in a row, at the
invitation of the ShaanXi Government, he led Australian contingents to ShaanXi Province at
Qing Ming Festival in April each year to take part in the grand annual ceremony of paying

respect and tribute to Xuan Yuan Huang Di（軒轅黃帝）, the common ancestor of the
Chinese nation. He was elected Vice
President of the ShaanXi Overseas

Friendship Association（陝西海外聯
誼會）and had the honour of being
selected to represent all overseas
ethnic Chinese for wreath laying
at the Ceremony on two separate
With Gladys Berejiklian MP, Premier of NSW, playing host at Charity occasions.
Ball 2018 in March 2018, with Mr Walton Chu, Major Sponsor of the Ball
In the late 2000s, at the request of the Xian Municipal Government, Anthony was
instrumental in forging a Friendship City alliance between Xian City and Hornsbyshire,

Sydney. Today, a full scale terra cotta warrior replica standing guard in the Hornsbyshire
Council Chambers, courtesy of the Xian Government, is testament to this precious alliance.

Over an amazing half a century has now elapsed
since his first tutorial at NCE with Mr Wong. The green
17 year old lad has now become a grey 71 year old
grandpa. This grandpa is now more and more like a
teacher as his career developed and blossomed over the

past decades. The skills and know how that he acquired
at NCE have proven to be vital corner stones for his
professional development.
With Lion Gudrun, Chairperson of Lions Clubs
International Foundation at Silver Jubilee Ball On the Queen's Birthday Honours List published
of Sydney Chinese Lions, March 2020
in Australia on 14 June 2021, Dr Anthony Chun Ming
Cheung was announced as a recipient of a Medal of the

Order of Australia (OAM).

Anthony currently resides in Sydney
and can be contacted via email -
tonycmcheung@hotmail.com

Anthony delivering Welcome Speech at Sydney With wife Emma and granddaughter
Chinese Lions' Silver Jubilee celebrations at Gemma in Sydney in March 2021
International Convention Centre Sydney

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