The 2001 annual meeting of China Development Forum opened in Beijing Sunday morning. Chinese Vice-Premier Wen Jiabao attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
The theme of the two-day meeting is "the role of government in the rapidly globalizing economy".
Attending the meeting are over 100 participants, including officials from Chinese government departments, leaders of financial circles and other big companies, chairmen and CEOs of some transnationals among the world's top 500 businesses, and representatives from related international organizations, and Chinese and foreign scholars.
They will discuss the government's leading role in social and economic reforms, self-improvement of the government, and how to realize both development and stability.
(Xinhua 03/25/2001)
