World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn (First Row: L) shakes
hands with Chinese Minister of Finance Xiang Huaicheng (First Row:
R) after they sign the Memorandum of Understanding on China's
Joining the Development Gateway Foundation and Press Conference to
launch the China Development Gateway (CnDG) on May 28, 2002. China
will join other Founding Members on the Board of the Foundation,
which currently includes the governments of Australia, Germany,
India, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mali (sponsored by The
Netherlands) and Pakistan as well as the World Bank Group. Other
sponsors from the private sector are Bloomberg, SoftBank and
Transnational Computer Technology.
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