Future Cooperation and China Council

utah: The forum will focus on how to further tap potentials for future cooperation between China and Utah, according to Global Times China. Delegates from China's Liaoning, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces will join the forum to seek closer local cooperation with Utah, said Zhao Zhenge, General Representative of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade CCPIT in the United States, at a reception on Thursday. The Utah-China Trade and Investment Forum, the first of its kind, will draw some 200 participants from both countries in such areas as energy, investment, tourism, culture, agriculture, food and information industry. Zhao told Xinhua that Utah, which has been left behind other American states over the past years, has great interest in expanding trade and investment cooperation with China. Utah expects to learn and understand China better, and hopes to see friendship and progress made, said Gregory Hughes, former member of the Utah House of Representatives. The forum will help increase Utah's influence and popularity in China, and help Chinese business community to know more about the western US state, he added. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.