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September 27, 2014
The Davis Chinese Film Festival will kick off on Sept 27 at the Modavi Center of the University of California, Davis. This event has already been recognized by the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco as part of the Cross the Pacific-China Art Festival, marking the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and the US, according to Xiao Xiayong, Chinese culture counselor in San Francisco. "This festival's aim is to enhance mutual understanding and friendship between people of China and the US," Xiayong told China Daily.
September 4, 2014
Thanks to the EB-5 money-for-visa program, many wealthy Chinese investors are helping revive one of San Francisco's most ambitious development projects, a project that will help lift one of the city's worst neighborhoods out of poverty. The $8 billion, 775-acre Shipyards project in San Francisco's southeastern impoverished black neighborhoods of Hunters Point and Candlestick Point lay dormant for years because of lack of funding. The project is expected to extend over 20 years and raise about $200 million in the first two years through the EB-5 program.
August 12, 2014
Chinese solar giant takes controlling share of Connecticut-based STR. A partnership between a leading Chinese developer of photovoltaic power stations and a Connecticut-based supplier of encapsulants will provide both a strategic ally in the global solar module manufacturing market, according to company executives.
August 6, 2014
Priceline Group Inc's $500 million investment in the Chinese online travel firm Ctrip.com International Ltd fortifies an existing bond between the two companies and gives "great potential" for future cooperation, according to Priceline's President Darren Huston. The deal between Priceline and Ctrip will give customers worldwide access to a pool of more than 600,000 travel accommodations - upward of 100,000 of which are located in the greater China Region.
September 3, 2014
President Obama's top foreign policy aide is headed to China next month as the U.S. looks to soothe tensions with Beijing ahead of Obama's travel there in November. National security adviser Susan Rice will attend meetings with senior Chinese officials "to consult on a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues,"
January 20, 2011
US and Chinese officials unveiled a raft of industrial, energy and science agreements during Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington that week, bolstering a rather amicable presidential summit despite continuing tensions in other arenas.
At the top of the list is a trio of new research partnerships under the umbrella of the US-China Clean Energy Research Center. The agenda includes an analysis of advanced coal technologies including the particular carbon-capture facility discussed at Huaneng Group’s power plant in Shanghai.
February 28, 1972
In 1972, The Shanghai Communique of President Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai ended 23 years of isolation between the United States and China. Tucked into a single sentence was a brief reference to cooperation in science and technology (S&T).
November 19, 2010
More than 800 members of the US business community and the US and Chinese governments came together at the China World Hotel for the 11th annual Appreciation Dinner hosted by AmCham China.
December 16, 2002
China United Coalbed Methane Co. Ltd. (CUCBM) and US-based Far East Energy Corp. last week signed a contract for joint exploration of coalbed methane (CBM) resources in the Enhong and Laochang areas of southwest China's Yunnan Province.The CBM contract covers a 1,072 square km area in Qujing city and is the first of its kind in Yunnan cooperation with foreign partners, Xinhua news agency reported.
July 9, 2014
The outcome document from the sixth China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) held in Beijing on July 9-10 reaffirmed both sides' joint efforts in tackling bilateral, regional and global issues, such as climate change, non-proliferation, military-to-military exchanges, wildlife trafficking, denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, reconciliation in Afghanistan and global health, issues many believe stand no chance of succeeding without close cooperation between the two nations.