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Meet a Sandbox Ambassador: Yuxin Hou

January 13th, 2010 by Sara Usinger

Yuxin is one of our Sandbox Ambassadors. He is taking care of the growing Sandbox community in Hong Kong by organizing regular events. Besides being the Sandbox Ambassador to Hong Kong, Yuxin is currently preparing the MaD-conference. This post is based on several questions we sent to Yuxin.

Yuxin is currently working with the Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT), a social venture think tank on various socially beneficial business projects. Recently he has been cooperating with UNDP and Aceh Partnership for Economic Development (APED) working on strengthening the cocoa value chain for sustained growth in Aceh, the provence that was hit by the boxing day tsunami in 2004. Yuxin has just been voted as the Top Make a Difference (MaD) Role Model on m-a-d.asia and is working with MaD on organizing events and promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity and discovery in the region.

Taking on several ambassadorial roles, Yuxin helps to bring together young talents in Hong Kong, Mainland China and other places over the world. He enjoys being with people and believes in the sparkles when different minds meet and when great ideas exchange. He loves and respects diversity while tries to build communication and cooperation on top of it.

Being an out-reaching, self-challenging and adventurous person, Yuxin always seeks for opportunities of exploring himself and discovering his unknown part of the world. He tries to understand different cultures and learns from them; at the some time he also tries to introduce Chinese culture to other countries and help people better understand China.

As Sandbox Ambassador, Yuxin sees Hong Kong as a strategic gateway between Mainland China and the overseas; as well as a midway hub for Sandboxers traveling internationally. Yuxin aims to build the Hong Kong community as the key link between the East and the West in terms of channelling talent and resources.

Yuxin has a strong interest in social entrepreneurship and sustainable development; he is currently involved in several networks and discussion boards on these topics. He also tries to utilize his art background to add in new elements into business to discover untraditional models and practices.

Apart from all above, Yuxin is fond of fine arts and other visual arts, cheffing and wine tasting. He parkours and climbs and does a variety of other sports.

At Sandbox, we’re thrilled to have Yuxin as our Hong Kong ambassador, and we look forward to having a great Sandbox community there! If you’re ever traveling through Hong Kong and want to meet up, let us know.