AmCham’s Beijing Forum Visits Planning Hall

About 40 members and guests of the American Chamber of Commerce's Beijing Forum visited the Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall on April 2.

The event was sponsored by the chamber and Beijing This Month Publications (BTM) Business Beijing magazine and Wild China, a local travel firm.

According to Jim Stent of the forum and Wild China, the purpose of the trip was to acquaint chamber members with Beijing's urban development plans. This is in line with the chamber's Beijing Forum's mission of doing what it can to improve communications between the city and its leaders and the American expatriate and business community in Beijing.

During a tour of the massive, futuristic urban planning hall, participants had an opportunity to meet and chat with Wei Ke, vice-curator of the planning hall and vice-director of the Beijing Commission of Urban Planning Exhibition Center.

Beijing This Month's Shirley Zhang said Business Beijing sponsored the trip to improve its contacts with the foreign business community in Beijing.