Steve was born 14-02-65. Studied for A Levels at Godalming Sixth Form College, University of Manchester1984-1987 B.A.Honours Degree in Politics and Modern History: Special Subject: The Pacific War 1921-1975 DEGREE B.A. (Honours) Class: 2:1 Also did a Postgraduate Diploma in Modern Chinese, (Mandarin) Ealing College of Higher Education (now Thames Valley University), Ealing, West London. UK Steve settled in Lanzhou China in 1992. 1992-4 He was an English Teacher at Gansu University of Technology and Lanzhou Railway Institute (now Lanzhou Communications University) Lanzhou, Gansu Province P.R. China. Founded his own company based in Lanzhou in 1995 Action Northwest Ltd. With the help of Julie made ANL into a very successful business specilising in Industrial cleaning/pigging equipment, ANL also acted as Europen agents for Chinese Companies APC NINGJIN AND APC QINGDAO and also representing European manufacturers into China. Steve sadly passed away in Beijing on 18th July 2010 in his hotel at around 08:00 that morning He made many friends in China, he is sadly missed by Family and Friends all around the world. RIP