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From October 29 to 31, 2007, the CPAFFC delegation, the goodwill delegation and the entrepreneurs delegation led by CPAFFC Vice President Li Xiaolin attended the Forum of China-Mexico: Strategic Partners of the 21st Century jointly sponsored by the Mexico-China Economic and Cultural Exchange Centre, the Mexican General Chamber of Commerce, the Mexican Centre of Economic and Social Studies of the Third World and successively held in Monterrey, an important industrial city in northern Mexico, and Mexico City, capital of Mexico. The Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon took part in organizing the forum held in Monterrey. CPAFFC Vice President Li Xiaolin; Hu Yongji, vice chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Hubei Peoples Political Consultative Conference; Chen Yuming, commercial counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Mexico; Luis Ernesto Derbez, former Mexican foreign and economic minister and secretary for International Affairs of the Central Committee of the National Action Party, and Vice President Sanchez of the Mexican General Chamber of Commerce attended the forum and gave speeches on the occasion. During the forum, Lourdes Aranda, undersecretary of foreign affairs; Luis Echeveria, former Mexican president; Jose Natividad Gonzales Paras, governor of Nuevo Leon; Mario Vazquez Rana, member of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee, chairman of the International Olympic Solidarity Commission, chairman of the Pan American Sports Organization and chairman of the Board of the Mexican Publishing Organization separately met with or entertained the delegations.

More than 200 people from the Mexican political, business, academic and press circles attended the forum with the theme of how to strengthen Mexico-China economic and trade cooperation to achieve win-win results. The participants of the two sides analyzed from different angles the Chinese and Mexican economic situation and put forward constructive views on how to balance the bilateral trade and discussed the two countries economic and trade prospects.