Across Americas
| Washington: Diplomatic ideas Fu Ying, a former vice-foreign minister of China and now chairwoman of the Foreign A! airs Committee in the 12th National People's Congress, discusses a new model for US-China relations at a Brookings Institution seminar on Wednesday. Sun Chenbei / China Daily |
| Sacramento, California: Official point Yuan Nansheng, China's consul general in San Francisco, meets with California Governor Jerry Brown at his office in the State Capitol building on Tuesday. Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, recently met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, after Xi's June 7-8 meeting with US President Barack Obama in southern California. Chen Jia / China Daily |
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Chicago: News gathering Wang Shuying, a Chinese deputy consul general in Chicago, looks at photographs during a tour of the editorial offices of the Chicago Tribune on June 5. Wang expressed hope that the Tribune would cover more news about China and help build understanding between China and the United States. Provided To China Daily |
| Washington: DC discussion Cui Tiankai, China's ambassador to the United States, chats with Henrietta Fore, global co-chairwoman of the Asia Society, at the organization's Washington awards dinner on Wednesday. At right is Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations. Cui received a Diplomatic Achievement Award on behalf of his predecessor Zhang Yesui, who is now China's vice-foreign minister. Sun Chenbei / China Daily |
| Washington: Aide awarded US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon (right) receives the Asia Society's Policy Achievement Award from Henrietta Fore, global cochairwoman of the organization, at a ceremony on Wednesday. Donilon was credited for efforts to "deepen relations between the United States and Asia". Sun Chenbei / China Daily |
| New York: Toasting talent Representatives of the New York Asian Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York presented actor and director Jackie Chan (third from right) the festival's Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday. To the left of Chan is Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung; Sun Guoxiang, China's consul general in New York, is fourth from left. Provided To China Daily |
| Lafayette, Indiana: Plant check Zhao Weiping, China's consul general in Chicago, is shown equipment inside the aluminum-extrusion factory of Nanshan America Advanced Aluminum Technologies, a division of Chinese conglomerate Nanshan Group. The 435,000-square-foot (40,400-square-meter) facility is China's first major direct investment in large-scale US metals manufacturing. Provided To China Daily |
| Toronto: Down to business The Canada-China Entrepreneurs Alliance Association hosted a trade summit and presentation of its Outstanding Entrepreneurs Awards on June 9. Other sponsors of the event were Ontario's Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Employment; the Chinese Commerce Ministry's China Investment Promotion Agency; and the Chinese consulate in Toronto. Lin Xiuhao (left), president of China Hei Niu Food Co, and Blair Rankie (right), sales manager of Ontario dairy cooperative Gay Lea Foods, sign a cooperation agreement. Standing behind and between the two are Fang Li (left), Chinese consul general in Toronto, and provincial legislator Tim Hudak. Li Na / China Daily |
| New York: Talking tourism The China National Tourism Administration and the Sino-American Friendship Association hosted an event on Thursday to promote travel along China's Yangtze River. Simone Olivier Bassous (second left), head of the New York chapter of the Pacifi c Asia Travel Association, and Raymond Zirkle (first left), event manager at Bassou's firm, MICE Inc, talk with staff members of the Chongqing Tourism Administration about possible cooperation. Hu Haidan / China Daily |
| Washington: Bipartisan approach From left: US Representative Charles Boustany; Chris Johnson, a China scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Representative Rick Larsen chat after a panel discussion on Thursday on Congress' perspective on US-China relations. Boustany, a Louisiana Republican, and Larsen, a Democrat from Washington state, are co-chairmen of the US-China Working Group in the House of Representatives. Chen Weihua / China Daily |
| San Francisco: Tech mecca Developers from around the world gathered this week for Apple Inc's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. So far the event, which concludes on Friday, has revealed new versions of Apple's iOS and Mac OS X operating systems. Tickets to the conference, which drew more than 5,000 attendees, cost $1,599. Yu Wei / China Daily |
| San Francisco: City to city Gregory So (second from right), Hong Kong's secretary for commerce and economic development, gave a speech on Wednesday on promoting his city's arts and culture. From left: Norman Yee, a member of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors; Lam Tung-pang, a Hong Kong artist; So; and Mabel Teng, executive director of the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco. Chen Jia / China Daily |
| Washington: Manufacturers' gathering SoZo Group CEO Raymond Cheng, whose firm advises Chinese companies on entering the US market, speaks at an event on Wednesday to announce that a US-China Manufacturing Symposium will take place in Dothan, Alabama, in November. The symposium, sponsored by SoZo and the Asian Manufacturing Association, is expected to draw over 800 participants, including 350 Chinese executives. Sun Chenbei / China Daily |
| New York: Couture duo Steven Kolb, CEO of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, was among the guests at a reception on Tuesday at the W New York – Times Square hotel for Chinese designer Masha Ma. The 30-year-old designer is in Manhattan this month as part of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund's China Exchange Program, now in its second year. |
| Seattle: Trade partners The governor of Washington state, Jay Inslee, talks to Tang Zhaohui, CEO of AdSage, China's leading digital advertising firm, at the annual dinner of the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle on Thursday. The governor gave the event's keynote speech, on the importance of international trade to his state. Deng Yu / China Daily |
| New York: Art scene Guests take in new works at the opening of artist Ye Nan's exhibition "Like Moths to a Flame" at Chambers Fine Art gallery in Manhattan. The show runs through July 20. Kelly Chung Dawson / China Daily |
(China Daily USA 06/14/2013 page12)
