Civic duty - Washington

Chiling Tong (standing), co-founder and CEO of the International Leadership Foundation (ILF) and former assistant deputy secretary of US Department of Commerce, gives remarks to the Asian-American college students participating in ILF's Washington civic fellowship program, with Joel Szabat (left), co-founder of ILF and current executive director of the Maritime Administration at the US Department of Transportation, and David Hinson (third from left), former national director of the Minority Business Development Agency at the US Department of Commerce, looking on during the program's orientation in Washington on June 6. [Provided To China Daily]