On the fourteenth day of December,more than senventy members of the APCEO delegation,under the leadership of the former Austrilian Prime Minister and Global Chairman of APCEO the Rt. Hon. Robert J.L.Hawke ,went to Haining to have a two days' visit, during which they would inspect and arrange ecnomic and trade exchange activities. Meanwhile,the Kick-off Ceremony of the "China•Haining•Global Leather Industry Development Forum "and the Award Ceremony for Haining of China to be the "International Cooperation Base of Yangtze River Delta" have been launched at the same time. The member of the standing committee of Haining municipal committee of CPC and the secretary of the Haining municipal committee of CPC Yu Hongzhi present these activities.

The vist of the APCEO delegation to Haining is another new act after the "1st Global Outsourcing Summit" held by APCEO together with Tianjin Municipality of China and the "3rd International Cooperation Summit for Asia-Pacific CEOs & Pronvial Governors and Mayors" held by APCEO and Guangzhou Municipality of China.

Together with Mr. Hawke, the delegation members include the former Chief of Staff of two Frenche Presidents and the APCEO's Eropean Chairman Christian Emile Qusnot, the APCEO Global Excutive Chairman and the China Chairman Mr. Zheng 、Xiongwei who is also a famous international economists, the Chairman of the Asian American Republican Natinonal Federation Party the Hon. Ben John Chen, and the secretary of Asia-Pacific affairs department of BC Government of Canada Richard Lee and other multinationals' CEOs, investors and the delegates of Top 500 companies from America, Canada, Austrilia, Japan, Singapore and other countries and areas.

During the Haining's visit, the delegation went to Sofa & Leather Cloth Manufacture firm—Haining Mengnu Group for the first time and inspected the finished garment and assembling lines. Mr. Hawke believed that Mengnu was the first degreed in the world both in the scales and technology.

Then, the delegation led by Mr. Hawke inspected the Haining China Leatehr Town with great interest and attended Kick-off Ceremony of the "China•Haining•Global Leather Industry Development Forum ". Mr.Hawke started the forum by pushing buttons to illuminate the crystal lamps by himself. This forum’s theme was "Harmonious Development,"and it aimed at strengthening dialogue and exchange between China Haining and the world leather circle and to realize the

harmonious develoment of the leather industry.

In the afternoon, the delegation attended the International Celebrity's (China.Haining) Golf Friendship Match and make oriented inspection of local outstanding firms. In that evening, Mr. Hawke announce the establishement of the "International Cooperation Base of Yangtze River Delta" in Haining of China by unveiling the covering over a tablet.

The vice secretary of the Haining Municipal Committee of CPC and the vice mayor Shen Linong give a special letter of appointment to Mr. Hawke to invite him to become the first Global Development Consultant for the first time in Haining's history.

It is hoped that the establishment of the International Cooperation Base in Haining can be a juncture, which can not only strengthen the material laision between companies and governments and companies themselves, further the friendship, enhance understanding, widen communication, exert APCEO's international resource advantage to publicize Haining and Haining's characteristics in a comprehensive and more profund way and in more fields, and turn a new leaf of developing cooperation with Haining.