Article: Overseas businessmen invited to Chinese provincial legislature (1)

Overseas businessmen invited to Chinese provincial legislature (1)

NANJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- In a first for China, overseas- funded company managers were invited on Monday to sit in on the annual session of a Chinese provincial legislature.

Together with local lawmakers, 10 business heads of overseas- funded companies listened to the government report delivered by the governor of Jiangsu Province to the first session of its tenth people's congress, which convened in the provincial capital Nanjing on Monday.

"I have been deeply aware of the democratic and opening-up drives of Chinese society since I began working in China two years ago," said Herbert Awlig, general manager of BSW ...

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