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8th U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue

A delegation of U.S. Democratic and Republican

Party leaders and U.S. business leaders met with senior Communist Party of China (CPC) officials and Chinese business leaders in Beijing, China, on May 6-8, 2015. This visit is part of the U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue, organized by the East-West Institute and the International Depart-ment of the Central Committee of the CPC (IDCPC). Launched in 2010, the U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue seeks to build under-standing and trust between political elites from the United States

and China through an exchange of views on governance and foreign policy issues.

This eighth iteration of the Dialogue rep-resented the highest-level visit ever to China by sitting officers of both major U.S. politi-cal parties. It was also the first-ever Dialogue visit to China involving former Cabinet-level officials from both the incumbent Obama administration and the George W. Bush admin-istration. Ronald Kirk, former United States trade representative and former mayor of Dallas, and R. James Nicholson, former chairman of the Repub-lican National Commit-

tee and former secre-tary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, led the U.S. Democratic and Republican delega-tions, respectively. The Chinese delegation was led by Wang Jiarui, vice chairman of the Na-tional Committee of the Chinese People’s Politi-cal Consultative Confer-ence (CPPCC) and the minister of IDCPC.

Dialogue sessions focused on rule of law and anti-corruption measures in China and the United States and the political landscape in both countries, including prospects for the upcoming 2016 U.S. presidential election. Additionally, the U.S. delegation met with

Wang Qishan, Politburo Standing Committee member and secretary of the Central Com-mission for Discipline Inspection, at Zhong-nanhai, and Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Yesui.

For the first time in the Dialogue’s history, U.S. and Chinese par-ticipants also included representatives from U.S. and Chinese cor-porations, who spoke at an inaugural U.S.-China Entrepreneurs Round-table. The roundtable focused on trade, in-vestment and other economic issues in the bilateral relationship and corporate perspec-tives on doing cross-Pacific business.

Photo source: IDCPC

Jeffrey QUEVice President, Government Affairs and

Policy, Johnson & Johnson China

Steven J. LUNDExecutive Chairman, Board of Directors, Nu Skin Enterprises; Executive Director,

Nourish the Children, Nu Skin Enterprises

Timothy STRATFORDManaging Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

(Beijing); Former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative

R. James NICHOLSONSenior Counsel, Brownstein Hyatt Farber

Schreck, LLP; Former Chairman, Republican National Committee; Former Secretary,

Department of Veterans Affairs

Raymond BUCKLEYVice Chair,

Democratic National Committee; Chair, New Hampshire Democratic Party

Ronald KIRKSenior Of Counsel,

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP;Former U.S. Trade Representative

Anthony W. PARKERTreasurer,

Republican National Committee

Robert E. FERGUSONSenior Vice President,

Global Public Policy, General Motors

Robert L. HOLDENChairman,

MidWest US-China Association; Former Governor, Missouri

Will SONGGeneral Manager and Chairman,

Global Surgery Group, Johnson & Johnson China

Edward W. GILLESPIEFounder, Ed Gillespie Strategies;

Former Chairman, Republican National Committee

Albert XIEVice President,

Public Policy and Government Relations, General Motors China

U.S. Participants

John K. HURLEYFounder and Managing Partner,

Cavalry Asset Management; Director, EastWest Institute

David J. FIRESTEIN Perot Fellow and Vice President,

Strategic Trust-Building Initiative and Track 2 Diplomacy, EastWest Institute

Keynes LIChief Representative of Beijing, Nu Skin Greater

China; Vice President, Business Support & Regulatory Excellence, Nu Skin Greater China

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Chinese Participants

WANG XiaohuiVice Minister, CPC Central Committee Policy Research Office; Vice Minister, CPC Central

Committee Publicity Department

XU LyupingVice Minister, IDCPC

WANG JiaruiVice Chairman, National Committee, Chinese

People’s Political Consultative Conference; Minister, IDCPC

YUAN ShuhongVice Minister,

Legislative Affairs Office, State Council

FU KuiVice Minister, National Corruption

Prevention Bureau of China; Director General, International Cooperation

Department, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

HE JianwuDeputy Director, Research Office,

Department of Development Strategy and Regional Economy, Development Research Center, State Council

HU YanxinPresident,

China Economic Cooperation Center

ZHANG BaolinPresident, China Changan

Automobile Group Co., Ltd.

Herbert Hongbo CHENChief Operating Officer, Tsinghua

University Science Park (TusPark) Co., Ltd.

GAO JinBoarding Director, Beijing Jing-Meng Stem

Cell Technology Co., Ltd.

Jerome MAVice President, Corporate Affairs,

JD Group

ZHOU YuanxinProduct Director,

Beijing Compunicate Technologies Inc.

Sabrina LIChief Executive Officer,

Coyote Bioscience Co., Ltd.

FAN BiDeputy Director General, Department of General Affairs I,

Research Office, State Council

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Host and Partner Organization: International Department, Central Committee, Communist Party of China (IDCPC)

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Acknowledgements

U.S. Delegation Activities

Dialogue with senior Communist Party of China officials,

led by Wang Jiarui

(Photo source: IDCPC)

U.S.-China Entrepreneurs Roundtable, co-hosted by the

IDCPC and the China Economic Cooperation Center

Dinner celebrating the five-year anniversary of the U.S.-China

High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue

Meeting with Wang Qishan, member of the Politburo Standing

Committee and secretary of the Central Commission for

Discipline Inspection

(Photo source: China News Service)

Meeting with Zhang Yesui, executive vice minister of

foreign affairs

(Photo source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China)

Visit to Sina and Zhongguancun-Innoway,

a start-up incubator

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