Conferences & Meetings >> In China

Beijing International Technology Transfer Congress

Focusing on technology transfer and international technology cooperation, the theme for this year's event is "Beyond the borders: drive innovation to win". The congress will feature 40 distinguished speakers from more than 30 countries and about 300 attendees, including Chinese professionals and overseas technology managers.

Date: April 24-27

Venue: Beijing International Hotel Convention Centre

Website: www.britishchamber.cn

Canton Fair 2013 (Spring)-The 113th China Import and Export Fair, Guangzhou

Ranking among the top in the world in terms of scale, Canton Fair is an international trade event with a long history. In 111 events the fair has been responsible for $963.1 billion in export trade volume with 6.14 million overseas buyers. The exhibition space covers 1.16 million square meters, housing 24,000 exhibitors.

Date: April 15-- May 05

Venue: China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou

Website: www.cantonfair.org.cn

INTERPHEX China 2013, Wuhan

This is the country's leading exhibition for the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector, covering a full rage of products, including raw materials, fine chemicals, intermediate chemicals, ingredients, processing machinery and packaging machinery. The event is an opportunity for international buyers to meet Asian sellers.

Date: April 25-27

Venue: International Convention & Exhibition Center

Website: www.chinaexhibition.com

China-CIMT China International Machine Tool Show, Beijing

First held in 1989, this is the largest machine tool show in China and one of the four biggest internationally. It serves as a major event for machine tool sourcing and as a trading platform for the industry.

Date: April 22-27

Venue: China International Exhibition Center

Website: www.cimtshow.com

Conferences & Meetings >> In the US

China's Investment Surge in Silicon Valley, California

Silicon Valley's dynamic high-tech market attracts many Chinese firms and investors as they expand their businesses overseas. During the forum, experts and business leaders will explore the latest trends emerging from Chinese investment in Silicon Valley.

Date: May 23

Venue: San Jose Hilton

Website: asiasociety.org

China Goes Global: The Partial Power, Los Angeles

The USC US-China Institute presents a book talk with David Shambaugh titled China Goes Global to discuss how China has become more active and assertive throughout the world.

Topics include: China's role as a global diplomatic actor; its behavior in the UN Security Council and other international organizations; its contributions (or lack thereof) to global governance.

Date: April 25

Venue: University of Southern California, CA 90089

Website: www.china.usc.edu

Culture >> In China

Tying Chinese Knots - Pan Chang, Beijing

Chinese knotting is a decorative handicraft that began as a form of Chinese folk art in the Tang and Song dynasties (AD 618-1279). The art is also referred to as Chinese traditional decorative knots. Learn to make knots from China Culture Center folk artist Ms Wang.

Date: April 26

Venue: China Culture Center, Chaoyang District

Website: www.chinaculturecenter.org

China Culture Industries Fair, Shenzhen

A platform for cultural exchange and cooperation between China and the rest of the world. This is the only national-level event of its kind in China.

Date: May 17-20

Venue: Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition

Center,Guangdong

Website: en.cnci.gov.cn/default.aspx

Culture >> In the US

Shanghai Glamour: New Women 1910s-40s, New York

Established as a treaty port in the 19th century, Shanghai became a modern metropolis by the 1920s and was internationally known as "the Paris of the East".

The city's identity was closely related to its women and their fashion. The exhibition explores how Shanghai women and their fashionable dresses convey the attraction and mystery of this legendary city during its modernization in the early 20th century.

Date: April 26 -September 29

Venue: The Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre

Street, New York

Website: www.mocanyc.org

Front Row: Chinese American Designers, New York

Guest-curated by designer Mary Ping, the show will demonstrate the unique visions of 16 Chinese-American designers, showing the origins of their careers and development of signature styles, as well as their relationship to the concepts of New York and Asia.

Date: April 26-Sept 29

Venue: The Museum of Chinese in America

Website: www.feedage.com

Diplomatic pouch

The US embassy in China said it "joins President Obama and the American people in expressing our condolences to the victims of the April 15 Boston bombing, including Chinese citizens who were killed and injured. We know that two explosions took the lives of an 8-year-old boy and 29-year-old woman from Massachusetts, as well as a graduate student from Shenyang.

"We have also learned that among the dozens of gravely wounded is a graduate student from Chengdu."

US Ambassador Gary Locke met Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and executives of Wisconsin companies about business opportunities in China during an economic development mission to Beijing. The business delegation's 42 members included representatives of such homestate businesses as Harley-Davidson motorcycles and specialty-truck manufacturer Oshkosh Corp.

Zhu Wanjin, deputy consul-general of China in New York, opened the Sixth China Business Conference at Columbia Business School last week. Themed 'The Paths to Doubling, China @ 2020', the conference aimed to boost understanding of China's rapidly growing economy and launch discussion about the opportunities and challenges of doing business in and with China. Business leaders from China and the US, as well as faculty and students from several universities on the US East Coast, attended the conference.

US President Barack Obama accepted the credentials of China's new ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai in the White House. Cui conveyed the greetings of President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and other Chinese leaders to Obama.

Vice-Foreign Minister Zhai Jun spoke at the welcome reception for the Second China-US Governors' Forum co-organized by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the National Governors Association of the United States. Chinese leaders from Tianjin municipality, Hebei province, Heilongjiang province, Fujian province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region as well as US governors from Iowa, Wisconsin and Virginia attended the reception in Beijing.

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(China Daily 04/19/2013 page23)