WASHINGTON - US Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. will visit China next week to meet with the newly appointed leadership and discuss a broad range of economic issues, according to a statement released by the Treasury on Wednesday.
Paulson will be in Beijing April 2 and 3, while there he will also deliver remarks on US and Chinese cooperation on issues surrounding energy and the environment.
Paulson's remarks will focus on an agreement reached at the last meeting of the US-China Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED), in which the United States and China agreed to conduct extensive cooperation over a ten-year period to address the challenges of environmental sustainability, climate change and energy security, said the statement.
Protecting the environment and promoting clean energy represent a shared priority for the US and China. The two countries are the two largest consumers of natural resources, and recognize that meaningful results require cooperation on a wide range of sustainable resource and environment initiatives.
