On July 30 local time in the United States, Ren Hongbin, Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), met with Susan P. Clark, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in Washington, D.C.
Ren Hongbin gave a detailed introduction to the third plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee and pointed out that history and reality have fully demonstrated that one country's success is an opportunity for the other, and strengthening economic and trade cooperation is beneficial to both countries. At present, the business communities of China and the United States show a strong desire to collaborate with each other, and they are ready to enhance cooperation, to continuously find new opportunities for trade and investment cooperation, and jointly protect free trade and safeguard an open market. Therefore, they can contribute to the win-win cooperation between China and the United States with practical actions and the fruitful results of pragmatic collaboration.
Clark noted that enhancing China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation and people-to-people exchange is crucial to the development of our bilateral relations. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is willing to deepen cooperation with the CCPIT to advance the implementation of cooperation results between the both business communities. Representatives from renowned American companies such as Intel, Qualcomm, and Procter & Gamble are optimistic about China's economic development prospects. They stand ready to continue expanding investment in China, tapping into the Chinese market, and realizing mutually beneficial and win-win development.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, headquartered in Washington, was founded in 1912. It is the largest business federation in the United States, representing the interests of more than 3 million American businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, over 3,000 states and local chambers of commerce, more than 850 industry associations, as well as 87 American Chambers of Commerce Abroad.
