William Lindsay

William Lindsay, English. Graduated from Liverpool University, England, majoring in geography and geology. In 1987, with his childhood dream, he came to China for more than 160 days on foot from Jiayuguan to Shanhaiguan along the Great Wall. It was the Great Wall that made him meet his beautiful Chinese wife and finally made him stay in China. He called himself the "Foreign Red Army" and began the "Long March" to protect the Great Wall. For this reason, the Chinese government awarded him the Friendship Award for Foreign Experts, and he was received by Premier Zhu Rongji at the state banquet for the 49th anniversary of the founding of New China. In recognition of his long-term commitment to the protection of the Great Wall and his achievements in cultural exchanges between Britain and China, British William Lindsay was awarded the Medal of Empire by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on July 12, 2006.