Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, October 09, 2002
Jiang Expects In-depth Discussion with US President
Chinese President Jiang Zemin said in Beijing on Tuesday he expects to have in-depth discussions with US President George W. Bush on China-US relations and other issues of common concern during his visit to the United States later this month.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin said in Beijing on Tuesday he expects to have in-depth discussions with US President George W. Bush on China-US relations and other issues of common concern during his visit to the United States later this month.
Jiang said during a meeting with Lee Scott, president and chief executive officer of the Wal-Mart Stores Inc., who is visiting China as guest of the China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC), that China-US relations had generally maintained an upward momentum.
The two countries made constant top-level exchanges and cooperated well over counter-terrorism, economics and trade, plus other issues of major regional and international concern, Jiang said.
Jiang said China appreciated Wal-Mart for its contributions to China-US economic and trade relations, and hoped more companies like Wal-Mart would bring advanced business ideas into China.
Scott briefed Jiang about his company's history and its operations in China. He said Wal-Mart hoped to expand its business in China.
Since 1984 he had visited China many times and the changes the country had experienced against a backdrop of many difficulties had made a deep impression on him.
Wal-Mart currently has 22 branches in China after establishing its first store in the country in 1996 in Shenzhen, in south China's Guangdong Province.