Farewell Letter - 致外国同事的欢送信

To our most respectful gentleman – John Smith

We fully understand that the retirement to you is the new start for another wonderful journey of your life with relax and leisure. But your retirement will be surely a big loss to GHD as we lose an excellent leader in the company together with his rich experience about the management, especially to our China team and staff. Though it is obvious a big sadness to us, still we do wish you will enjoy your time of the retirement and have the different but the most pleasant time all the way!

Meanwhile, with the greatest honour, we would like to take this chance to say thank you for your excellent job in GHD China, for your kindness to China staff, for your trust and justice to Chinese people, and also for your confidence to China!

Time passing so fast, it is already 4 years since you go back to Melbourne. We are always missing you so much! We are missing your smile together with the nice and gentle greetings, we are missing your warmest concerns about people, we are missing your fair and equal to everybody, we are missing your incomparable leadership!

You are the founder of GHD China and China business. During the 4 years of working as General Manager China/Asia in Beijing, you lead the team to push through a way in this violent competitive environment of China and successfully make GHD standing firmly in China market. Even nowadays, we are still enjoying the fundamental base you set up.

It is your personal charming and leadership which attract people surrounding you, following you, working with you and fighting together with you. You have the gift to balance people, convince people, encourage people, guide people and lead people. From your eyes, people feel the warmness, the encouragement, the care, the trust and especially the love. You do love people! We know that very clearly. We do love you Peter! Being shy as Chinese under Chinese culture, people seldom say love to each other. But today, please allow us to say, to cry, to shout it out loudly, WE DO LOVE YOU John!

We treasure this love very much. Please accept this love from China. Please allow us to give you our highest salute and accept our highest respect.

We can’t thank you enough for what you have done for China and we do wish you all the best during the time of retirement.

We miss you John, we miss Nancy. We are always missing both of you so much! Please don't forget to visit us as you do have a big family here in China!