Jack Ma of Alibaba and Tim Cook of Apple
A group of 30 CEOs of some of China's and America's biggest firms will attend a heavyweight business dialogue in Seattle on Sept. 23, which is the first stop of Chinese president Xi Jinping's visit to the U.S. between Sept. 22 and Sept. 25, Henry M. Paulson Jr announced on Sept. 16 (local time).
Xi will be present at a roundtable hosted by Paulson, the former U.S. Treasury secretary, and deliver a speech. The attendees include 15 CEOs from China and 15 from the U.S.
The dialogue is co-sponsored by Paulson Foundation and the China International Trade Promotion Committee. It will provide opportunity to the Sino-US business leaders to discuss issues facing the two countries, challenges and opportunities, and to explore ways strengthening the Sino-US economic and trade relations.
President Xi will tour Microsoft Co. and Boeing Corp on the first leg of the U.S. visit.
The list of CEOs involved in the roundtable:
CEOs from China
Pony Ma of Tencent
Jack Ma of Alibaba
Lu Guanqiu of Wanxiang
Yang Yuanqing of Lenovo
Wang Yusuo of ENN Energy
Ma Zehua of China COSCO
Guan Qing of China State Construction
Wan Long of Shuanghui
Tian Guoli of Bank of China
Jiang Jianqing of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Pan Gang of Yili
Robin Li Yanhong of Baidu
Liang Haishan of Haier
Wang Jinshu of Shandong Yuhuang Chemical
Li Qiang of Tianjin Pipe
CEOs from America
Mary Barra of General Motors
Jeff Bezos of Amazon
Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway
John Chambers of Cisco Systems
Tim Cook of Apple
Dave Cote of Honeywell
Bob Iger of The Walt Disney
Ellen Kullman of DuPont
Andrew Liveris of The Dow Chemical
Satya Nadella of Microsoft
Indra Nooyi of PEPSI
Dennis Muilenberg of Boeing
Tom Pritzker of Hyatt Hotels
Ginni Rometty of IBM
Howard Schultz of Starbucks
