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California governor encourages Sino-U.S. business cooperation

Xinhua, May 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

Businessmen in the United States and China should cooperate, especially in the fields of energy technology, pollution reduction, transportation, infrastructure and movies, California Governor Jerry Brown has said here.

Brown made the remarks at a California-China business forum, called "California-China Business Summit," which kicked off here on Wednesday, with over 200 U.S. and Chinese entrepreneurs and officials gathering together to discuss further business cooperation.

Brown acknowledged the contribution made by Chinese Americans, saying California has "an unusual interest and commitment to working with China" because it has more people coming from China than other states.

Liu Jian, consul general of the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angles, expressed his confidence in China's economy when he spoke at the event.

With high expectations for China's continuous development this year, Liu said that 2016 marked the beginning of China's 13th Five-Year Plan, which would help put China's growth on a more solid foundation and create opportunities for sustainable development in the long run.

The business forum was held under the framework of a China-California joint working group on trade and investment cooperation, which was established three years ago as the first working group to build a close economic partnership between one U.S. state and some Chinese provinces.

"This kind of cooperation mechanism becomes a new vehicle of China-U.S. trade and investment cooperation and brings our two countries even closer. Now more states are following suit; so far, there are all together seven such working groups," Liu said.

The forum was part of a "China Week" program which includes a series of conferences and exhibitions to promote bilateral cooperation in trade, culture and environmental protection.

"China Week was created to offer a permanent and scalable platform to help Americans and Chinese come together to advance the most important bilateral relationship in the world today," said Peter Shiao, chairman of China Week.

"We chose to focus on the economic relationship as a driver with the belief that a shared commitment to prosperity and cross-border partnerships will transform our world and drive other environmental, cultural, and humanitarian objectives critical for our planet," the chairman said.

About 130 Chinese businessmen and local government officials attended the forum and discussed immediate investment and collaboration opportunities with U.S. business leaders. Endi