A round-table symposium on the internationalization of China's resource-intensive enterprises is slated to be held on March 28, 2008 in Beijing. It will be jointly hosted by Beijing Review and the Canada China Business Council (CCBC).

The objective of the symposium is to become better acquainted with Chinese companies' internationalization process and the problems that crop up during the process, to explore successful ways in which these companies can compete on the world stage and, especially, to resolve the problem of how Chinese enterprises of this kind can cooperate with resource-intensive countries like Canada.

Participants will include business people hailing from companies in China and Canada, experts and scholars from the Guanghua School of Management Under the Peking University, the International Business Institute under the University of International Business and Economics, and those from the Ministry of Commerce engaged in researching transnational businesses.

The meeting will be held to discuss the prime periods and businesses suitable for Chinese enterprises to be internationalized, repercussions from all over the world, opinions surrounding internationalization, and related governments' polices.

The aim of the meeting is also to bring together enterprises in China and concerned sections in Canada to discuss approaches and methods of transnational cooperation, in an effort to ensure that Chinese enterprises have a steady, healthy and sustainable development during their process of internationalization.

Beijing Review, China's only weekly newsmagazine in English, has been dedicatedly providing its readers worldwide with objective reporting as well as its own unique perspective, since its establishment 50 years ago.

CCBC is a Canadian-based civil institution contributing towards promoting trade and investment communication between China and Canada. Founded in 1978, the institution has now become a key link bridging the economies of the two countries.

Those wishing to participate in the meeting, please go to http://www.bjreview.com.cn/ to fill the questionnaire and register to become a member of the Beijing Review's readers' club.