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Hu
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Hu
Jintao,
Pesident of
China
1.
Feature
Story
/ April 18,
2006 / Hu Makes
Good Impression
on U.S.
Businessmen and
Government
Officials.
Should pay big
dividends in
future deal
making in
America.
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Chinese
President Hu
Jintao
Successful Yale
University
Speech -- Makes
Great
Impression on
Students and
Skeptics.
Assures U.S.
Businessmen at
China Expo
Event in Final
Talk before
Flying to Saudi
Arabia for
Talks.
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STORY
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Hu Jintao
Dinner Party At
Bill and
Melinda Gates'
High-Tech
Home Makes Good
Impression On
China's
President in
Redmond,
Washington.
Henry Kissinger
and China Expo
2008 to attends
event.
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02.
TIMELINE
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Hu
Jintao
•
1942 -
Born.
Hu Jintao
in Jixi, a town
in Anhui
province.
•
1959
- Hu chose
hydraulic
engineering
upon entering
Beijing's elite
Tsinghua
University in
1959 and
developed a
reputation as
something of a
"dancing prince
charmer,"
according to a
biography
co-written by
former aide Ren
Zhichu. The
dancing helped
him catch the
eye of
classmate Liu
Yongqing, his
future
wife.
•
1964
- Hu became
an active
member of the
Communist Youth
League and
joined the
party in
1964.
•
1988
-
Hu
Jintao was
appointed Party
Secretary of
the TAR in
December
1988, a
position he
held, mostly in
absentia,
through 1992.
Tibet was his
final posting
before Deng
Xiaoping,
China's
paramount
leader,
selected him
for grooming as
Jiang Zemin's
successor as
the President
of the People's
Republic of
China.
MORE.
•
1992
-
Tibet
was his final
posting before
Deng Xiaoping,
China's
paramount
leader,
selected him
for grooming as
Jiang Zemin's
successor as
the President
of the People's
Republic of
China.
MORE
•
1995 -
China.
Opened in
1995, the
Microsoft China
R&D Center
in Beijing
employs more
than 150
employees; it
is one of the
largest
foreign-owned
software
R&D centers
in China. The
Microsoft
Global
Technical
Support Center
in Shanghai
employs over
400 persons to
support
customers
worldwide.
•
1998 -
China.
The MSR
Asia research
facility opened
in Beijing in
1998, and now
employs about
120 full-time
research staff
and over 200
visiting
scientists and
students from
China and
around the
world.
•
1999 -
China.
In 1999,
they helped
start the IT
Training for
Laid-off
Workers
program. After
finding initial
success through
an early trial
program in
Dalian, the
program has
since expanded
to three other
cities -
Guangzhou,
Chengdu, and
Shanghai in
cooperation
with local
governments. In
just over two
years, the
programs have
trained over
600 unemployed
workers, and
nearly 80
percent have
since found new
positions in
the IT
industry.
•
1999 - In 1999,
Gates wrote
Business @ the
Speed of
Thought, a book
that shows how
computer
technology can
solve business
problems in
fundamentally
new ways. The
book was
published in 25
languages and
is available in
more than 60
countries.
Business @ the
Speed of
Thought has
received wide
critical
acclaim, and
was listed on
the best-seller
lists of the
New York Times,
USA Today, the
Wall Street
Journal and
Amazon.com.
Gates' previous
book, The Road
Ahead,
published in
1995, held the
No. 1 spot on
the New York
Times'
bestseller list
for seven
weeks.
•
2001
- October 2:
Microsoft
ships Windows
XP; the company
says it will
start selling
its next
operating
systems,
code-named
Longhorn, in
2003•
2002
- April : The
company pushes
back the
Longhorn launch
to "beyond
2003."
•
2002
- In a
November 2002
interview,
classmate Liu
Bingxia
recalled the
young Hu as
carefully
controlled,
studious and
someone who
always held his
temper.
Center
Page /
2003
-
2004
•
2003
-
BEIJING,
Feb. 28, 2003.
Bill Gates met
Chinese
President Jiang
Zemin announced
the Chinese
government's
participation
in Microsoft's
Government
Security
Program, which
provides
national
governments
with access to
Windows source
code and
technical
information
they need to be
confident in
the security of
the Windows
platform.
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•
2003
-
BEIJING,
Feb. 28, 2003.
Bill Gates
met Chinese
President Jiang
Zemin today
concluded a
two-day visit
to China during
which
Microsoft, and
agencies of the
Chinese
government and
local Beijing
municipal
government also
signed a
Memorandum of
Understanding
in which the
two
organizations
agreed to work
with local
software
companies for
the development
and servicing
of these
e-government
solutions and
training of
software
professionals.
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STORY
•
2004
-
Bill
Gates' charity
wins $100
million
China
•
2004
-
Beijing.
Bill Gates,
chairman of
Microsoft
Corp.,
addresses the
opening
ceremony of
China
International
Service
Industries
Convention
& Expo in
the Great Hall
of the People
in Beijing June
30, 2004.
(Xinhua
Photo).
•
2004
-
SHANGHAI,
Sept 4
(Reuters) -
A
charitable body
set up by
Microsoft Corp.
founder Bill
Gates has won
approval to
invest $100
million in
China's main
stock and debt
markets,
regulators said
on Saturday.
MORE
STORY
•
2004-
December:
Microsoft
says Longhorn
won't be ready
until late 2004
or early
2005.
•
2004
- August:
Microsoft
said it would
shiip Longhorn
in the second
half of
2006.•
•03.
/
2005 Time
Warner at
Global
Forum
•
2005 - April:
Bill Gates
of Microsoft,
shows off
Longhorn at a
conference,
focusing on the
look and
usability of
the
interface.
•
2005
-
MAY
Global Forum in
Beijing -
Time Warner
in talks for
China TV
tie-ups
-
Media
conglomerate
Time Warner
Inc. is talking
with China's
top two
broadcasters
about
partnerships in
the country's
newly opened TV
program-making
sector,
according to
its chief
executive.
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TIMELINE
•
2005
-
Richard
Parsons, CEO of
Time Warner
Inc, speaks at
the FORTUNE
Global Forum in
Beijing May 17,
2005.
Parsons said
Time Warner is
talking with
China's top two
broadcasters
about
partnerships in
the country's
newly opened TV
program-making
sector
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FOR MORE
PARSONS
STORY.
•
2005
-
Officials
from Time
Warner, owner
of the CNN and
HBO television
networks and
the Warner
Bros. movie
studio, have
met recently
with
counterparts
from China
Central
Television
(CCTV) and
Shanghai Media
Group (SMG)
about ways they
can work
together, said
Chief Executive
Officer Richard
Parsons.
•
2005
-
"We
have an awful
lot of both
content and
expertise we
think can be
helpful to
developing the
TV industry
here in China,"
Parsons told
reporters at a
media briefing
at a business
conference in
Beijing.
•
2005
-
"In
terms of target
dates, we're
really at the
beginning of
trying to
create these
relationships
and I would
hope that by
next year we
would have some
success."
•
2005
- July:
"Windows Vista"
name unveiled;
Microsoft
ships a beta
version to
500,000.
customers.
•
2006:
March
Microsoft
delays consumer
shipments of
Vista until
January 2007,
says a buiness
version will be
ready in
November
2006
•
2006:
Chinese
President Hu
Jintao
Successful Yale
University
Speech -- Makes
Great
Impression on
Students and
Skeptics.
Assures U.S.
Businessmen at
China Expo
Event in Final
Talk before
Flying to Saudi
Arabia for
Talks.
12HuJintaoChinaYale
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STORY
• 2006:
Hu
Jintao Dinner
Party At Bill
and Melinda
Gates'
High-Tech
Home Makes Good
Impression On
China's
President in
Redmond,
Washington.
Henry Kissinger
and China Expo
2008 to attends
event.
112HuJintaoDinnerAtGates.htm
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Byline
Story
•
Government
Security
Program, MOU
Agreements
Signal
Microsoft's
Long-Term
Commitment
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STORY
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China's
Academia Show
off Innovative
.NET Solutions.
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