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Event: Wanzhou-Atlanta Networking Dinner
Host: China Wanzhou District People's Government, Association of Chinese Professionals Atlanta
Date: February 9, 2004, Monday, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Place: Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center
Reservation: BensonYang_atlanta@yahoo.com

Vice Governor Hong-yue Fu of China Wanzhou district will visit Atlanta from Friday, Feb. 6, 2004.

Wanzhou, a 1350 square miles and 1.7 million population eastern district of the Sichuan Chong-qing city, the 4th and latest "China central government direct-jurisdiction city" after Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, sitting on the upper reach of the Yangtze River and centrally located in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, has long been the distribution and transportation center in the western China in its 1700 years history. About 100 miles west of the "Three Gorges Dam", Wanzhou is being called the "Capital of Resettlement" due to the built-up of this largest and most expensive hydroelectric dam in the world.

The five-member government and business delegation headed by Mr. Hong-yue Fu, the district Vice Governor in direct charge of Economic Planning, Foreign Trade, Foreign Investment, Customs and Port Authority, will first visit New York and Salt Lake city, where a Utah based chemical company just signed a salt gas production contract at a total investment of 500 million US Dollar with the Wanzhou District People's Government last year.

According to Benson Yang, Association of Chinese Professionals Atlanta(ACP) vice president, the delegation was contacted to visit Atlanta not only because Atlanta is becoming an international center for global business, but also here lives a former president Jimmy Carter, who built the United States and China diplomatic relationship during his term 1976-1980 with Chinese leader Deng Xiao-ping, who was born in Sichuan province encompassing the Wanzhou district. The new formation of the Georgia China Future initiative to foster trade between Georgia and China is also an important factor to bring the delegation to Atlanta.

A "Wanzhou-Atlanta Networking Dinner", jointly hosted by Wanzhou District People's Government and Association of Chinese Professionals Atlanta(ACP), during which a keynote speech by Mr. Fu, western China and Three Gorges Reservior foreign investment preferential policies and some large investment projects in the areas of logistics, tourism, timber/paper production, port construction are to be addressed, is to be held at Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center on Monday, Feb. 9, from 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm .

ACP cordially invites you to:

There is no charge for this event and dinner, but RESERVATIONS are required !

To make a reservation, please provide your name, company/institution, title and contact information to Benson Yang at:

Email: BensonYang_atlanta@yahoo.com
Fax: 770-831-7148
Tel: 770-831-0550

Please note the RESERVATION deadline is Feb. 5 and we look forward to seeing you !

For more details, please visit: http://www.acp-atlanta.org/wanzhou/

Best Regards,

Benson Yang
ACP vice president
Jan. 25, 2004