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Economic Summit on High-Tech Innovation
By Peng Wenyan (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2004-05-19 15:16
As a main part of the 7th China Beijing International High-tech Expo, the China Economic Summit will focus on high-tech innovation and sustainable growth May 21-22 at the Great Hall of the People and China World Hotel in Beijing.
It will address the hot economic issues of 2004, such as China's Tenth Five-Year Plan (2001-2005) and the challenges of economic soft landing, environmental protection and sustainable development. Officials from the National Development and Reform Committee; Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of China's central bank; Shang Fulin, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission; and Xie Zhenhua, director of the State Environmental Administration, will also give key speeches at the event. Christopher Ham, British Ambassador to China, will attend the summit as foreign speaker.
A number of famous economists, such as Robert A. Mundell, Nobel Prize winner and father of the euro; Jiang Ping, noted law expert; Hu Zuliu, managing director of Goldman Sachs Asia; and Lin Yifu, director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University, will also head a series of special seminars at the summit.
The summit will feature the following key items: a keynote report on the prospects of China's macroeconomy and policy; scientific development, macrocontrol and China's sustainable development; financial innovation, high-growth enterprises and China's economic sustainable development; electricity and China's economic sustainable development; a seminar on listing on the Singapore Stock Exchange; and an introductory meeting to business opportunities and financing in Hong Kong.
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