Premier Li Keqiang meets foreign experts
January 23, 2017 Category Expat corner, Weekly
Premier Li Keqiang attended a gathering in Beijing of foreign experts working in China one week ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Li expressed China’s strong hope to “fully tap into the wisdom and creativity of every individual” to nurture new dynamism to propel economic growth, upgrade traditional industries and boost the transformation and upgrading of China’s economy. Sir James Fraser Stoddart, the Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for 2016, who now works at Tianjin University, suggested that China establish a long-term program to support creative young researchers and their teams. Foreign experts make more than 600,000 visits to China each year, according to Zhang Jianguo, Director of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. Denis Depoux, Asia Vice President of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, said China has become an innovation powerhouse, as a growing domestic market and middle class are fueling “incredible creativity and business model ingenuity”.
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