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Views on the Hamburg Summit
Quotes
“Since its inception the Summit has played an
important role in enhancing cooperation and
friendship between China and the European
Union.”
(Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council of the People’s
Republic of China, 13 September 2006)
“The Chamber of Commerce’s Hamburg Summit
was a success both nationally and internationally.
The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce can be
more than satisfied with the course of the second
Hamburg Summit – China meets Europe.”
(Die Welt am Sonntag, 17 September 2006)
“To us in China, protecting IPR is both an international
obligation and a requirement for promoting
China’s own development and enhancing its capacity
for independent innovation.”
(Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council of the People’s
Republic of China)
“You have good know-how but you need to show
Chinese partners how it will benefit them.”
(Fu Chengyu, CNOOC)
“This Hamburg Summit as I understand it is mainly
a meeting at which to share thoughts on international
economic ties and to exchange experience
just as much as fears, hopes, forecasts and suggestions.”
(Helmut Schmidt, Die Welt, 14 September 2006)
“There is practically no company or business
associations that is not backing the several-day
Hamburg Summit: China meets Europe intending
to improve Hamburg’s ties with its twin city
Shanghai.”
(Handelsblatt, 14 September 2006)
“Last year the EU took over from the USA as
China’s premier trading partner.”
(Xu Kuangdi, CFIE)
“In making more efficient use of resources China
is following the route that all industrialised countries
have taken and using relatively fewer
resources with increasing prosperity. But these
efforts are not enough to master the challenge
faced by all countries, industrialised and developing
countries alike – that of progressive global
warming.”
(Ernst-Ulrich von Weizsäcker, University of California Santa
Barbara)
“Investing in the Chinese market is investing in
the future.”
(Ulrich Ellerbeck, HSH Nordbank)
“Given the swift pace of development in China,
this conference in Hamburg is important. It is a
good match for Hamburg and for Germany. The
event will further intensify relations between
Germany and China and ought therefore to be
continued.”
(Helmut Kohl, 16 September 2006)
“What the Chamber of Commerce has now presented
is an enormous opportunity for the business
location Hamburg making the Chinese with
their immense economic potential even more
enthusiastic about the city.”
(Hamburger Abendblatt, 5 September 2006)
“Some countries have converted their industries
and now complement the products that China
exports, but this conversion has not been undertaken
in southern Europe. These discrepancies
make it more difficult to speak with one voice on
other important issues such as the protection of
intellectual property rights.”
(Mario Monti, Bocconi University)
“Economic development is limited not by financial
or human capital but by natural capital.”
(Klaus Töpfer, former Director of the United Nations
Environment Programme)
“This gathering, held every other year in
Hamburg, is a kind of Davos of the China trade.”
(FAZ, 14 September 2006)
“Frank speaking, longstanding commercial and
economic ties, the desire for cooperation and
understanding and to devise win-win situations
were the hallmarks of this second Hamburg
Summit between China and the European Union.”
(aktuell Asia, 10/2006)
“China wants not only to raise its vehicle production
but also to make sweeping changes to the
structure of its automotive industry. The objective
is to have one or two Chinese global players.”
(Bernd Gottschalk, German Automotive Industry
Association)
“In only a few years’ time China will account for
50 % of the world’s production capacity.
”(Ronnie C. Chan, Hang Lung Group)