国内英语新闻:U.S. Congress recognizes Nanjing City as "Model for International Cooperation"

"This will send a clear message to the American technology, education and business community that Nanjing is a place to do business for the future," Hartigan said. "It shows that the U.S. government believes the future presents many opportunities for Nanjing and China as a whole to develop partnership programs in technology and innovation and provide a great opportunity for many young scholars as well to bring their technology and ideas to Nanjing and China to develop."

"It will also encourage more U.S. companies to explore Nanjing and China as a new opportunities for innovation business development, where new ideas and concepts can be created to help the development of Chinese society while providing U.S. companies with new markets," he said. "The U.S. will use Nanjing as a model and then move this model to other parts of China to expand innovation and entrepreneurship."

"Nanjing is well prepared because over the past two years Nanjing, working together with the U.S.-China Partnership Committee and the New England Board of Higher Education, have been working on the International R&D University City, International Technology Transfer (China) Center and the China Global Entrepreneur Conference," he said. "This is the result of much preparation."

The China Global Entrepreneurship Conference (CGEC), slated for Aug. 7-9 in Nanjing, gathers abundant resources aimed at helping global entrepreneurs start and grow their business, and access the booming Chinese market.

As partners with CGEC, the Nanjing City government is expected to offer enormous support to global entrepreneurs, including financial resources from government-owned banks, investment firms and funds, as well as numerous research grants, free facilities and tax incentives.

More than 20 prestigious private investment funds from China and around the world have joined the local government and created a multi-billion dollar investment fund to support innovative, exciting new projects that come to the conference, reports said.