US-China Business Council Conferences and Meetings, 1998

January

• Shanghai: Breakfast meeting with Robert Griffiths, economic and political officer at US Consulate, to discuss The Impact of the regional financial crisis on China. (Jan. 16)
• Hong Kong: Joint meeting of the Legal and Marketing/Distribution Committees to discuss Retailing and direct marketing in China. (Jan. 19)
• Washington: Issues Luncheon featuring key Congressional staffers on the 1998 Congressional Agenda on China. (Jan. 22)
• Beijing: Issues Luncheon with Wu Jiahuang, director general of China's Customs Tariff Department and a principal WTO Chinese negotiator, on WTO and tariff treatment of capital goods. (Jan. 23)
• Hong Kong: Breakfast meeting with economists from HongkongBank, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Hong Kong University to discuss The impact of the regional financial crisis on China. (Jan. 23)
• Washington: Joint meeting of the Council's Chemical Industry Working Group and Chemical Manufacturers Association to address Chemical tariff harmonization and sectoral liberalization within APEC and WTO. (Jan. 28)
• Washington: FORECAST '98 - annual Council overview of business, economic and political trends in China, featuring keynote speaker Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, US Trade Representative. (Jan. 29)

February

• New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles: China Business Update 1998 - field briefings by the Council's Business Advisory Services staff, for members and non-members. (Feb. 3-5)
• Hong Kong: Legal Committee meeting, brown- bag lunch to discuss Joint venture dissolution. (Feb. 16)
• Beijing: China Operations '98, annual Council meeting in Beijing to review China's economic, political, and business trends, and on-the-ground operational issues. (Feb. 17-18)
• Washington: Issues Luncheon featuring Susan Shirk, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the office of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, for a US-China Relations Update." (Feb. 19)
• Shanghai: Breakfast meeting featuring Council Vice President Rich Brecher, on WTO and MFN. (Feb. 25)
• Hong Kong: Issues Luncheon with Council Vice President Rich Brecher to discuss WTO and MFN. (Feb. 27)

March

• Beijing: Breakfast meeting-strategy session on Trademark violations and the misuse of registered foreign-invested names. (Mar. 10)
• Beijing: Capital Group meeting to discuss US government relations. (Mar. 11)
• Hong Kong: Legal Committee meeting featuring speakers from PPG Industries, Inc.; Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler; and Shearman & Sterling to address Preventing theft of IPR and company secrets by FIE employees. (Mar. 16)
• Washington: Issues Luncheon featuring Minister Zhou Wenzhong of the Embassy of the PRC to address Perspectives on US-China Relations. (Mar. 19)
• Hong Kong: Marketing and Distribution Committee meeting with speakers from Ogilvy &Mather to discuss Branding in China. (Mar. 20)
• Washington: "China on the Hill" briefing with the Georgia congressional delegation. (Mar. 23)
• Beijing: Issues Luncheon featuring Clifford Hart, Political Section of the US Embassy, and Professor Li Shuguang, The China Politics and Law University for a National People's Congress Follow-up. (Mar. 27)
• Washington: Brown bag luncheon with US Department of State's Chris Clarke on China Internal Developments. (Mar. 31)
• Hong Kong: Issues breakfast with Willy Wo-Lap Lam of South China Morning Post (SCMP) and Maria Tam, deputy convener of HK delegation, to discuss the First Session of the Ninth National People's Congress. (Mar. 31)
• Shanghai: Issues breakfast with Robin Bidwell and Husayn Anwar of Environomics, to discuss Recent developments in China's environmental regime. (Mar. 31)

April

• Washington: "China on the Hill" briefing with the Oregon congressional delegation. (Apr. 1)
• Washington: Welcome Reception and Dinner with China's Ambassador to the United States, Li Zhaoxing. (Apr. 7)
• Beijing: Human Resources Group meeting to discuss Trademark Violations: Business Registration Issues. (Apr. 15)
• Hong Kong: Breakfast meeting with Byron Weng, professor and chairman, Dept of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and advisor to Government of Taiwan to discuss US-China-Taiwan Relations. (Apr. 16)
• Hong Kong: Legal Committee meeting to address Land-use rights. (Apr. 20)
• Washington: Issues Luncheon featuring Joseph Battat, Foreign Investment Advisory Services, the World Bank to discuss China's Foreign Direct Investment Policy Reform: An Update from the Field. (Apr. 23)
• Beijing: High-Tech Issues Working Group discussion on Year 2000 Computer Compliance in China. (Apr. 26)
• Shanghai: Breakfast meeting with Denis Fred Simon of Andersen Consulting, China to discuss Government Restructuring. (Apr. 28)
• Washington: "China on the Hill" briefing with the Illinois congressional delegation. (Apr. 30)

May

• Washington: US-China Energy & Environment Initiative Dinner with members of PRC delegation to the US-China Energy & Environment Initiative, including PRC Ambassador to the United States Li Zhaoxing. (May 11)
• Washington: "China on the Hill" briefing with the Pennsylvania congressional delegation. (May 14)
• Hong Kong: Legal Committee Meeting. (May 18)
• Washington: Issues Luncheon featuring Jeff Bader, Director, Asian Affairs at the National Security Council for a Summit briefing. (May 21)
• Shanghai: Membership breakfast with Stanley Sherwood of Coopers & Lybrand to discuss Taxation in China: Whither Preferential Treatment for FIEs? (May 22)
• Washington: Reception for PRC Finance Minister and Joint Economic Commission Delegation. (May 26)
• Beijing: Issues Luncheon with Qui Xinghua, director, International Affairs Department, New Star Petrochemical Corporation to discuss Oil and Gas sector restructuring. (May 29)

June

• Shanghai: Meeting with US International Trade Commission Commissioner Carol Crawford. (June 1)
• Washington: The United States-China Business Council's 25th Anniversary Gala with over 600 guests, featuring US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Yu Xiaosong. (June 2)
• Washington: The US-China Business Council's 25th Annual Membership Meeting. Featured speakers: US Commerce Secretary William Daley, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Frank Murkowski, and US Institute of Peace President Richard Solomon. (June 3)
• Washington: Wai Gao Qiao Bonded Free Trade Zone delegation visit. (June 5)
• Dallas, TX: China Update '98 - Luncheon briefing co-hosted by the Council and Mary Kay Inc. to discuss US-China relations and US business, and China's investment and trade environment. (June 9)
• Washington: "China on the Hill" briefing with the Texas congressional delegation. (June 18)
• Washington: Issues Luncheon featuring key congressional staffers on US-China Relations: Pre- and Post-Summit Senate Legislation. (June 18)
• Hong Kong: Legal Committee meeting to discuss Employee stock option programs for China FIEs. (June 22)
• Washington: Sichuan Briefing for Council member companies by Sichuan Provincial Governor Song Baorui and his delegation. (June 26)

July

• Atlanta, GA, Charlotte, NC: Investment in China - Roundtable Breakfast Meeting on Recent Developments co-hosted by the Council and Alston & Bird LLP. Other topics included the Rapidly Changing Legal Environment and Intellectual Property Protection in China. (July 8-9)
• Hong Kong: Issues breakfast featuring Greater China Counsel for Eastman Kodak Co. Walter Gilges on Kodak's $1 billion deal with China. (July 10)
• Washington: WTO Briefing with USTR on the status of US-China bilateral market-access negotiations following the Jiang-Clinton Summit. (July 14)
• Washington: Lunch session with Senator Max Baucus to discuss the recent Presidential visit to China and his own meetings and discussions with senior Chinese figures. (July 15)
• Washington: "China on the Hill" briefing with the Tennessee congressional delegation. (July 16)
• Hong Kong: Legal Committee meeting to discuss Social Welfare Reforms with representatives from Watson Wyatt Worldwide and PricewaterhouseCoopers. (July 20)
• Washington: Issues Luncheon featuring Hong Kong Commissioner Kenneth T.W. Pang, JP to review Hong Kong SAR: The First Year. (July 23)

August

• Beijing: Issues Luncheon with Jake Rosser of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, and Timothy C. Heberlein of Edelman Public Relations Worldwide on Managing Public Relations in light of China's Bureaucratic Restructuring. (Aug. 28)

September

• Beijing: Briefing on APEC's China Customs Project by Michael Michalak, coordinator for APEC demonstration port projects. (Sep. 1)
• Hong Kong: Briefing by Robert A. Kapp, president, US-China Business Council on the Council's Legal Cooperation Fund. (Sep. 7)
• Hong Kong: Issues Luncheon featuring Robert A. Kapp, president, US-China Business Council on US Congressional legislation on China and China's WTO negotiation status. (Sep. 7)
• Shanghai: Breakfast meeting with US-China Business Council president, Robert A. Kapp to discuss US-China Business Relations: A Post-Summit Prognosis and Dialogue. (Sep. 11)
• Hong Kong: Legal Committee meeting with Bonnie Chan of Skadden Arps to discuss Tax consolidation between foreign-invested entities in China. (Sep. 21)
• Washington: China on the Hill briefing for the North Carolina congressional delegation. (Sep. 23)
• Washington: Issues Luncheon with James A. Harmon, President and Chairman of the US Export-Import Bank to discuss Advancing the Ex-Im - China Partnership. (Sep. 24)
• Shanghai: Special meeting featuring Margaret Huang of GE China to address The Year 2K and the Power Bureau: What are You Doing to Prepare? Location: GE Shanghai Office. (Sep. 25)

October

• Houston: Meeting on Oil and Gas Industry Priorities in China. (Oct. 6)
• Beijing: Special Meeting on Foreign Exchange Issues with US Embassy officials to discuss Recent PRC Foreign Exchange Policy Changes. (Oct. 7)
• Washington: Issues Luncheon featuring Nicholas Lardy, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, at the Brookings Institution, for a review of his newly published book China's Unfinished Economic Revolution. (Oct. 8)
• Shanghai: Issues Breakfast with Willis Shen of Watson Wyatt Shanghai to discuss Supplementary Retirement Plans and the Impact of Housing Reform on Company Programs. (Oct. 9)
• Hong Kong: Legal Committee Meeting on Labor Issues in China featuring Kevin Thieneman of Caterpillar, Roy Birnbaum of Pharmacia & Upjohn, and Ed Miu of TRW. (Oct. 19)
• Hong Kong: Marketing & Distribution Committee Meeting with Vivien Li and Marina Wong of PricewaterhouseCoopers to discuss China's New Foreign Exchange Regulations. (Oct. 22)
• Hong Kong: Monthly Issues Breakfast meeting with Louis Quinn, US Treasury Department's new Consul in Hong Kong to address Ongoing IMF/World Bank Meetings, C.H. Tung's Policy Address, and Stability of the Chinese Yuan and Hong Kong dollar Peg. (Oct. 23)

November

• Shanghai: Y2K Working Group Meeting with members of the Shanghai National Economy & Society Informization Leading Group's Y2K Team to discuss Shanghai's Plans to Handle the Year 2000 (2YK) Issue. (Nov. 10)
• Hong Kong: Legal Committee Meeting featuring speakers from Environmental Resources Management (ERM) to address Environmental Legislation and Compliance in China. (Nov. 16)
• Hong Kong: Issues Luncheon featuring Tai Ming Cheung, senior director of Kroll Associates and former Far Eastern Economic Review correspondent to discuss The PLA's Divestiture of Commercial Activities and its Implications for Foreign Firms. (Nov. 19)
• Washington: Issues Luncheon featuring former Congressmen Don Bonker and Beau Bolter to discuss The '98 elections: What's in store on trade? (Nov. 19)
• Beijing: Issues Luncheon featuring Marybeth Robb, principal, Hewitt Associates to address Improving business results through engaging people. (Nov. 20)
• Shanghai: Special meeting on the Foreign Exchange Situation with Matthew Wong of PricewaterhouseCoopers and He Yunlan of Waigaoqiao. (Nov. 20)

December

• Washington: Roundtable Discussion with Frederick Crook, economist with the US Department of Agriculture, who will address Agricultural trends and related bilateral trade issues. (Dec. 9)
• Washington: Issues Luncheon featuring Meg Lundsager, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade and Investment,US Treasury Department. She will discuss US-China trade: Is there a shared agenda?" (Dec. 10)
• Beijing: Issues Luncheon featuring Anthony Zaloom of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom who will talk on How to structure the acquisition of a State-owned enterprise. (Dec. 11)
• Hong Kong: Legal Committee Meeting to address Technology import regulations with Lisa Bang of Dorsey & Whitney and Patricia To of DuPont China. (Dec. 14)
• Hong Kong: Issues Luncheon with Frank Hu, director for economic research at Goldman Sachs, who will discuss China's economic performance in 1998 and what lies ahead for 1999. (Dec. 15)
• Washington: Luncheon in honor of Chinese Delegation to the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), led by MOFTEC Minister Shi Guangsheng. (Dec. 17)