Los Angeles rolled out the welcome mat last week to Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi and an entourage of 200 business executives.Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. rolled out the welcome mat last week to Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi and an entourage of 200 business executives and members of the Chinese Communist Party Chinese Communist party: see Communist party, in China. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Political party founded in China in 1921 by Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Mao Zedong, and others. , who are traveling on a 13-state economic tour of the U.S. The trade delegation had breakfast and held a signing ceremony A signing ceremony is a ceremony in which a bill passed by a legislature is signed (approved) by an executive, thus becoming a law. Modern-day signing ceremonies are derived from ceremonies that occurred when the British monarch gave Royal Assent to acts of Parliament. at the Universal Hilton Hotel, where Vice Minister of Commerce Ma Xiuhang and 16 other Chinese ministers met with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. , Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante and Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Cecile Ablack. The various ministers and Chinese business owners plan to sign more than $4 billion in purchasing contracts from the U.S. |
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