More than 150 senior Chinese corporate and government leaders and their Canadian counterparts participated in the 3rd Canada-China Business Forum here on Tuesday.

The forum was sponsored by China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and Canada China Business Council (CCBC) in Toronto.

CCPIT, which was set up in 1952, is a national non-governmental economic and trade organization with some 70, 000 companies as its member, and CCBC is a private organization based in Canada for the promotion of trade and investment between China and Canada.

(Xinhua News Agency September 15, 2009)