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Ten PKU Students Attended "George
Bush Sino-US Relations Seminar" in
Washington PKU NEWS 2007--11--13
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=194926252
Peking University, Nov. 13, 2007: Li Zhaoxing, the former Foreign Minister of
People's Republic of China and Li Xiaolin, vice president of Chinese People's
Association for Friendship led a group of more than 100 members, including vice
president Hai Wen and 10 students of Peking University, to attend the third "George
Bush Sino-US Relations Seminar" held in Washington, DC from October 22nd to
25th.
The Chinese representatives from government departments, colleges and
universities, business community or the military, and the United States group
composed by politicians, including 6 cabinet ministers in the Bush administration,
academics and business people, attended the meeting discussing on bilateral
relations and major events of common concern. The theme of the seminar was
"development, energy and security", concerning focal topics with far-reaching
influence on the development of the world, such as Sino-US relations, Asia-Pacific
regional security, economic and trade cooperation, energy, sustainable development
and so on.
40 college students were invited by the organizers for the first time, 20 from China,
half of which are from PKU, and 20 from United States. They could attend all forum
sections and activities, dialogue with each other and tour the Pentagon and
Washington. Moreover, they were invited to participate in the Capitol Hill banquets,
face-to-face with famous politicians, and a special honor in the Chinese embassy in
the United States. In most particular, all these 40 student representatives had the
chance to meet former Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China Li
Zhaoxing and former United States President George Bush.
The ten students of PKU were Shen Zhiliang and Wu Yan from the School of Law, Le
Hanning from the College of Urban and Environmental, Zhou Mi and Weike from the
Guanghua School of Management, Chen Daizhuo from the Institute of Physics,
Wang Dong from the School of Government's Management, Chen Xiaoshen from the
Institute of International Relations, Chang Meng from the Department of Chinese
Language and Literature and Chen Chen from the School of Economics. Hai Wen,
vice president of PKU attended the section forum higher education, and delivered a
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