The 2nd Roundtable Summit of the Global CEO Council (GCC) was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 9, 2014. Premier Li Keqiang met with all the members of GCC who attended the 2nd Roundtable Summit. They are from Volkswagen, IBM, Siemens, Nokia, Cargill, Prologies, Standard Chartered Bank, DSM, and Schneider. Ministers from NDRC, MFPRC, MIIT, MOA, MOFCOM and Mme. Li Xiaolin, the president of CPAFFC also attended the summit.
Initiated by Chinese People''''s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) on June 6, 2013, GCC aims to bring together the specially invited CEOs of the world’s largest multinational corporations to have the highest level of direct communications with Chinese leaders for understanding, friendship, cooperation and common development between China and the world.
Premier Li Keqiang appraised GCC''''s format, and welcomed the recommendations and suggestions about China''''s economic development from the GCC members. In the summit, CEOs shared their ideas and thoughts on a wide range of common concerned issues such as food security, energy efficiency, environmental protection, innovation and high-tech cooperation. Primer Li responded their questions in depth.
The CEOs spoke highly of the achievement China had made in economic reform and development over more than 30 years. They also expressed their willingness to continue their participation in China''''s deepening economic reform by expanding the scale of innovation cooperation, joint R&D and increasing production capacity with Chinese partners for mutual benefits and win-win results.
Mme. Li Xiaolin met with the CEOs before the summit. She said GCC not only gives the opportunities for business leaders to listen to Chinese leaders’ thought and vision about China and the world economic development trend, and gain a better understanding of their governing strategy; also it allows the business leaders to have their recommendation and suggestion directly to the Chinese leader as well as discuss the ways of achieving win-win cooperation for common development and prosperity.
