Background: China-US Business Forum

China-US Business Forum, organized by People's Daily of China and China Chamber of Commerce in USA, will be held at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, on Feburary 14-15, 2006.)

With the theme of "Expanding Exchanges and Cooperation for a Mutual-Benefit and Win-Win Tomorrow", we've invited senior delegates include renowned statesmen, economists, and entrepreneurs from both China and US who will discuss a number of topics of common concern, including "Market Access: Chinese Market Always Opens to American Business", "IPR Protection: A Key Issue in China-US Long Term Cooperation", "Cross-Border M & A: International Operation of Chinese Companies and US Policy Options", "The Flotation of Renminbi Exchange Rate and China-US Business", and "Solutions to Trade Imbalance", etc.

Theme:

Expanding Exchanges and Cooperation for a Mutual-Benefit and Win-Win Tomorrow

Topics:

Market Access: Chinese Market Always Opens to American Business

IPR Protection: A Key Issue in China-US Long Term Cooperation

Cross-Border M & A: International Operation of Chinese Companies and US Policy Options

The Flotation of Renminbi Exchange Rate and China-US Business

Solutions to Trade Imbalance

Aims:

To provide a sound, multi-level platform for government officials, business leaders and academicians of the two countries to exchange views, to enhance mutual understanding and trust, so as to handle the differences in a proper way, and to promote the healthy growth in China-US business cooperation

Organizer:

People's Daily (China)

China General Chamber of Commerce in U.S.A.

Special Support:

Ministry of Commerce, China

U.S.A Embassy to China

Hosts:

International Business Daily

Beijing Century 99 International Business Ltd.

Organizing Committee of CHINA-US BUSINESS FORUM

China:

Address: 18 Jian Guo Men Nei Avenue, 3-512 Suite (Henderson Center),

Beijing 100005, P.R.China

Tel: 86-10-65189121ĦĦExt: 662

Fax: 86-10-65189123

E-mail: nycpcc@hotamil.com

Contact: Yin Feifei

U.S.A.:

Correspondence of the organizing committee in the US

Contact Organization: China General Chamber of Commerce in U.S.A.

Address: 100 Lighting Way, 4/F Secaucus, NJ 07094-5611

Tel: 201-422-8572

Fax: 201-422-8558

Email: contact@usccoc.org

Contact: Huang Xueqi

Distinguished participants

From USA

Confirmed:

Robert Kapp, Former President of US-China Business Council

John L. Holden, Former President of National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Craig Allen, Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs, US Embassy in Beijing

William G. Parrett, Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Deborah Lehr, President of Stonebridge-China, Former Assistant US Trade

Representative, US Chief Negotiator for China's accession to WTO

Siva Yam, President of US-China Chamber of Commerce

Invited:

Alexander Haig, former US Secretary of State

Mickael Kantor, Former Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative

Stephen Roach, Chief economist of Morgan Stanley

John Frisbie, President of US-China business Council

Ezra Vogel, Former Director, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University

Henry Paulson Jr., Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs & Co

Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO, US Chamber of Commerce

Stephen A. Orlins, President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations

Lawrence J. Lau, Vice-Chancellor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Stapleton Roy, Former US Ambassador to China; Managing Director of Kissinger Associates, Inc.

From China

Invited:

China's senior officials of commerce, agriculture, intellectual property senior representatives from China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Development Research Center of State Council and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences