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The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them.

China is an area where we need to be present. Lots of companies want to supply their products to China.

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.