"When you have countries with large economies, it is important for leaders to speak often for a sustainable development. The more our leaders can sit and discuss, the more powerful the combination of China and the US can be in the world."

Ellen Kullman, the newly elected chair of the US-China Business Council, during the 2013 Fortune Global Forum in Chengdu, Sichuan province. She said it is still too early to predict on which specific sectors China and the US can cooperate further in the following years. A road map will be drawn by mid-July and it will show how the two countries can continue to work together on trade, intellectual property and commercial arrangement issues, she said.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 06/14/2013 page18)