-- October 18, 2006

As a journalist from China Development Gateway I attended the EU-China International Development Forum held in the China Resources Hotel, Beijing this afternoon. Focusing on "Urban Development and Environment Protection" the Forum attracted many officials, professionals and entrepreneurs.

　

All the presentations were superb but the one which impressed me most was given by Hu Shiying, executive president of the International Green Industry Cooperation Organization. In his presentation he described an ideal scene of future urban development with fewer vehicles on the roads, less pollution and fewer traffic jams. He described everyone living in buildings on just three levels…no need to climb the stairs everyday.

　

Hu said the above scene wasn't just a dream. We focused too much on construction and development…paying little attention to the long-term ecological issues and environmental protection. Cities are places where many people live so everyone has the responsibility of protecting them.  

　

I was deeply moved by his speech. It made me aware of the importance of urban environmental protection. We should all do out utmost to create a better environment for society and for all of us.

 

Photos can be found at: http://www.chinagate.com.cn/english/blog/49343.htm

　

(China Development Gateway by Ye Nana, translated by Xu Lin October 18, 2006)

-- October 17, 2006

October 17 is the 14th International Eradication of Poverty Day, and China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation held an award ceremony for the 2nd China Poverty Eradication Award at the Great Hall of the People to honor 12 individuals and organizations for their outstanding contribution to the fight against poverty. China Development Gateway is the partner of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, so I attended the award ceremony yesterday.

Photos can be found at: http://www.chinagate.com.cn/english/blog/49136.htm

(China Development Gateway by Wang Sining October 17, 2006)

-- September 28, 2006

Today is one to remember for us! www.toubiao.info, a web portal dedicated to facilitating international bidding and tender transactions, was officially launched following six months of trials since March 18. The system is the brainchild of the Development Gateway Foundation (www.dgmarket.com) under the World Bank, China Bidding Ltd (www.chinabidding.com.cn) and us.   

　

To celebrate this big day we held a press conference this afternoon. Around 60 people including officials from the Chinese government, the World Bank and representatives from various companies were in attendance. The China Internet Information Center did a live-webcast on www.china.com.cn.

　

The press conference was held in Beijing New Century Hotel in the city's western area. The venue was decorated with fresh flowers and a huge screen displayed all the information about the website.

　

Beijing's fall is the city's best season and a truly good event at a quite wonderful time of year made the staff of our website very happy. We’ve seen the results of what we have done in the past months for Toubiao.com.

　

Toubiao is actually the Chinese version of the Development Gateway Market (dgMarket), an online procurement platform run by the Development Gateway Foundation, whose services include provision of bidding and tendering information, consultation and promotion on behalf of governments and enterprises.

　

The dgMarket is a mature website with a great deal of content so the localization of it was not easy. Translation was a big part of work as were the various technical issues. To speed up the process of its localization and provide users with the best services, we spent a lot of time with translation ensuring we were accurate. We also communicated frequently with dgMarket and China Bidding through ‘three-party’ multiple teleconferences. Those two parties also contributed a lot to the construction and operation of Toubiao.

　

With successful cooperation and mutual effort, Toubiao, a platform with over 60,000 bidding notices a year, became available to Chinese enterprises, giving them access to worldwide tendering and offering foreign companies and government agencies an insight to the Chinese bidding and tender markets.

　

We hope all of our users enjoy our services and more enterprises are welcome to become our members.

　

For more information of our press conference please visit http://www.chinagate.com.cn/english/news/48860.htm.

　

Photos can be found at: http://www.chinagate.com.cn/english/blog/48883.htm.

　

(China Development Gateway, by Xu Lin)

-- September 22, 2006

The 2006 International Cooperation Summit for Asia-Pacific CEOs & Provincial Governors and Mayors opened successfully in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, on September 20, 2006. I visited Wuxi from September 19, 2006 to September 22, 2006 for providing online live-webcasting for the Summit.
 
The meeting is the only high-level summit of its kind in the world, committed to establishing long-term and stable communication mechanisms between provincial governors, mayors and CEOs from across the Asia-Pacific region.

The summit's slogan is "cooperation, innovation, fortune and capital" and its goal is to promote cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, investment, technology, management and branding as well as in urban construction & development and regional development. In addition, the summit will make its due contribution to the charity and public welfare in the Asia-Pacific region.

Zhang Huaixi, vice chairman of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and the Ministry of Commerce sent letters of congratulations to the Summit. The summit was attended by the Former Premier of Australia Bob Hawke, Vice Governor of Jiangsu Zhang Weiguo, Mayor of Wuxi Mao Xiaoping, Former Chair of the Committee on International Relations of US House of Representatives Benjamin Arthur Gilman, President of the Republican Party's Asian Committee Ben John Chen and more than 300 participants, including provincial governors and mayors & CEOs, economists, journalists and foreign enterprises' representatives.

Bob Hawke, former premier of Australia, said, "The International Cooperation Summit for Asia-Pacific CEOs & Provincial Governors and Mayors, as a platform for the communication and cooperation between the well-known CEOs in big enterprises, senior financial experts and local executive officers from the Asia-Pacific region, has promoted the interaction and development of international capital and the regional economy."
 
"China's peaceful rising has attracted the whole world's attention. The key point is we inherited Confucianism. It is of great help to integrate both Confucianism and western management expertise into corporate operation. CEOs, government officials, and elites from all walks of life have already realized the importance of combining both the eastern and western philosophy and taking advantage of these great ideas in their management," Ben John Chen, president of the Republican Party's Asian Committee, said at the Summit.
 
The participants of the Summit visited the development zones of Wuxi on September 21, 2006.

Wuxi is located in Yangtze River Delta with Shanghai 128 km to the east and Nanjing 183 km to the west. By the end of 2005, Wuxi had attracted a total investment of US$31.07 billion and a paid-in capital of US$18.56 billion, and 64 of "Fortune 500" companies have secured tenancy in Wuxi with 121 projects.

Photo for this meeting can be found at: http://www.chinagate.com.cn/english/blog/48844.htm

(China Development Gateway by Wang Sining)