Jiang, who arrived in Hong Kong earlier Tuesday to attend the Fortune Global Forum scheduled for May 8-10, had cordial and friendly talks with Levin and his colleagues. Jiang said both China and the United States are influential countries in the world.
China is the largest developing country and the United States the biggest developed country.
China highly values the development of Sino-US relations. China and the United States should maintain and develop a healthy and stable bilateral relationship based on the principles of the three Sino-US joint communiques and the norms governing international relations so as to benefit the people of the two countries, Jiang added. Noting this being the first annual Fortune forum held in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the new century, Jiang said this shows AOL Time Warner attaches importance to Asia, and China in particular. As for China's economic development, Jiang said the Chinese economy will continue to maintain a comparatively high growth rate and the living standards of the Chinese people will further improve in the next five years. China's continued reforms and opening-up to the outside world and modernization drive have provided favorable conditions for trade and economic cooperation between China and other countries, the president said, hoping that foreign entrepreneurs could seize the opportunities, increase investment in China and strengthen economic and technological cooperation with China.