Students from Standard Chartered Bank performed a sketch in Chinese on their company's New Year banquet. It was very successful and has met a favorable reception.

Foreign employees of Standard Chartered Bank are studying Chinese at TLI-CIIC's Pudong branch school. When noting that students were going to perform a sketch on the New Year banquet, Ms. Li Zhixi, their teacher, began to write the play. It didn't take long, but the most difficult thing was to gather the “actors” together to rehearse the play. The actors, Ashton Lee, John Bowen, Peter Crawley, David Lynch, are top managers of the bank, who use their lunch time to study Chinese. They hardly have time to rehearse. One of them was going to go business trip on that weekend. “ Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.” The “actors” practiced separately by themselves. Although they only have rehearsed for 1 hour together, the performance was very successful. About 2000 people watched their play and praised it. The training department of the bank was very satisfied with their achievements in Chinese study. The actors were very proud of it as well.