As Chinese investors are making efforts to seek business opportunities in the United States and help create local jobs, the US government needs to adopt a more open attitude toward the new wave, Chinese business leaders said at a public forum in Washington on Sept 27.
Dozens of top experts, senior government officials and business leaders attended the Global China Summit hosted by the Washington Post Live. China Daily is an official media partner of the summit.
It featured Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State and author of the recently released book On China; David Miliband, former Foreign Secretary of Great Britain; Robert Rubin, former Secretary of the US Treasury; Tung Chee Hwa, founding chairman of the China-US Exchange Foundation; and Mingjian Bi, senior advisor to the China International Capital Corp.
The topics focused on ongoing social and economic changes in China and its influence on the rest of the world.
Senior executives in charge of the American market for Chinese companies ZTE and Air China made rare appearances as panelists during the one-day gathering. They sat next to former US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky and other international business consultants to discuss conducting business in America.
“It is getting easier and easier to do business in China as the country is becoming more and more open to business,” said Chi Zhihang, vice-president and general manager of North American operations for Air China, China’s national flag carrier of civil aviation.
“I think the US has the tendency of becoming less and less open to business.”
Chi, born in China and now a naturalized US citizen, earned his master’s and doctorate degrees from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
He said 20 years ago it was difficult to get a passport in China, but relatively easy to get a visa to the US. Now, it is just the opposite.
He said Chinese companies often find non-business-related issues pop up when they come to America to do business, such as getting a visa.
“My biggest challenge in doing business here is that I cannot get enough people (Chinese passengers to fly to America),” he said.
The lavish spending Chinese tourists could bring huge revenue to the American tourism industry and create a lot of US jobs if it was easier to enter the US, Chi said.
But because of the complicated visa application procedures and exhausting waiting periods, many Chinese travelers give up traveling to America.
Cheng Lixin, president of the North America region of the ZTE Corp, is facing more challenging problems.
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