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Beijing-Philadelphia Friendship Development Exchange Meeting Held in Beijing

2010-12-9 14:45:17

The Beijing-Philadelphia Friendly Development Exchange Meeting hosted by Beijing NGO Association for International Exchanges (BAIE) and CCPIT Beijing was held in Beijing Hotel 7 December 2010. The American delegation that attended the meeting was headed by Philadelphia Vice Mayor Allan Greenburg and joined by a law firm, HSBC (North America), HSBC (the US) while from the Chinese side, representatives from BAIE, CCPIT Beijing, Beijing Federation of Industry and Commerce etc. participated the meeting which together drew more than 120 people.

BAIE Deputy Chair PANG YouSheng, CCPIT Beijing Vice Chair XU YuWei attended and addressed the meeting.

XU briefed the meeting that CCPIT Beijing, or the Beijing Chamber of International Commerce, a public service organization that engages in people to people exchanges on behalf of the Beijing Municipal Government exercising trade promotion function, is the biggest, most authoritative agency in economic cooperation and trade promotion in Beijing with 4,000 members and more than 20 industry members. Its core functions include industry promotion, external exchange, trade promotion, convention and exhibition promotion and information release. It provides services to national and international enterprises by ways of international liaison, trade promotion, commercial information, international convention and meeting, international exhibition, economic and trade laws, economic and trade training, online promotion, and is the bridge and bond between government and enterprise. Meanwhile, XU particularly introduced the government projects, commercial exhibitions, such as the high-tech expo, cultural and creative expo and the world biggest professional refrigerating expo that CCPIT Beijing undertakes.

Mr. Greenburg narrated the meeting on Philadelphia’s history, geography, climate, economic development and particularly on the new round of economic and social development planning of the city which is the 6th largest city of the US with the biggest population and land area in Pennsylvania. Its main economic activities are manufacture, food processing, and financial services. It has its own stock exchange, and is the oldest and most historically implicant city in US. He hoped to establish all-round cooperative relationship with Beijing. Members of the delegation introduced laws, legal service system, procedures of Chinese enterprise coming to do business in the US, exchange and cooperation in finance, banking, investment, listing, education etc..

The Philadelphia delegation was at the invitation of BAIE and was met with by Vice Mayor GOU ZhongWen before the meeting.

 

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