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Ambassador Cui Tiankai Meets with CGCC Board Members
February 10, 2015 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America Cui Tiankai visited the CGCC NY Chapter headquarters in on Monday afternoon. CGCC Chairman Yuan Ning and nineteen CGCC Executive Board Members and NY chapter members greeted Ambassador Cui.
After taking a tour of the office and signing the official CGCC guest book, Ambassador Cui and CGCC Chairman Yuan Ning lead an executive meeting to discuss the progress of China-U.S. bilateral relations. The meeting began with Happy Chinese New Year wishes to CGCC members and friends, as well as the entire China-U.S. business community.
Ambassador Cui and Chairman Yuan opened the meeting by discussing the progress of China-U.S. relations in 2014, in which important events took place such as U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to China in November and the advancement of the “New Type of Major Power Relations”.
Ambassador Cui and Chairman Yuan stressed the importance of the 2014 agreement to extend visa lengths. Several other CGCC board members expressed their contentment with the new visa agreement, including Bank of Communications New York Brank General Manager Niu Kerong.
Participants also discussed the topic of economic environmental protection during the meeting, as China and the United States made great progress in this area in 2014.
Other CGCC Board Members such as Sinopec USA Representatives Office Chief Representative Sujuan He and Agricultural Bank of China New York Branch General Manager Yu Ming spoke behalf of their respective corporations about recent success, current difficulties and outlooks for the future. The board members were given the chance to discuss various topics about participating organizations, and the discussion was lively throughout the meeting.
To conclude, Ambassador Cui spoke about the current state of the China-U.S. relationship and the progress of CGCC in recent years. He expressed his satisfaction over China-U.S. stability in and the profound impact CGCC has made. In order to progress even further, according to Ambassador Cui, CGCC must work even harder to provide the greatest benefits possible to its member companies and build a strong relationship with the local community. This will serve well to benefit the China-U.S. bilateral relationship as a whole.
