China Displays Great Interest in Summit to Be Held at Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry

China Displays Great Interest in Summit to Be Held at Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry

August 04, 2006

    HAMBURG, Germany, Aug. 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 40 high
ranking Chinese business leaders to accompany Prime Minister
Wen Jiabao.

    In addition to the Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao, a
40 member delegation of high ranking business leaders are
slated to attend "Hamburg Summit: China meets
Europe" from September 13-15, 2006 at the Hamburg
Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The Chinese delegates are
board members of leading Chinese corporations and members of
the country's largest business association China Federation
of Industrial Economics (CFIE).

    The members of the Chinese delegation include the
following:

    -- Zhu Yanfeng, CEO of the FAW Group, which is China's
leading automaker;

    -- Xie Qihua, head of Baosteel, which is one of the
world's largest steel 
       concerns;

    -- Fu Chengyu, president of CNOOC, which is one of the
fastest growing 
       petroleum and gas companies;

    - Guo Wei, CEO of Digital China, which is a successful
subsidiary of the 
      electronics company Lenovo;

    The delegation will be led by Professor Xu

    Kuangdi, vice chairman of the 10th National Committee
of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,
and thus higher ranking than a government minister
according to Chinese protocol.

    The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry is
expecting more than 350 luminaries from the business,
political and science communities to attend this second
summit on European-Chinese relations. This year's
conference will focus on environmental protection and
logistics, with nine panels addressing a series of topics
including financing and banking, trade relations between
the EU and China, and China's resource needs.

    Speakers at the summit will include former German
chancellor Helmut Kohl, Singapore founding father Lee Kuan
Yew, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing, former UN environmental
director Klaus Topfer and the biologist Ernst-Ulrich von
Weizsacker.
    
    For more information, please contact:

     Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry
     Office of Public Relations
     Dr. Jorn Arfs
     Tel:   [phone]
     Fax:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]
     Web:   http://www.hk24.de
            http://www.hamburg-summit.com

SOURCE  Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry