Chinese investors see opportunities at US summit

For Liu Shoutian, chairman of Beiyang Financial Leasing (Tianjin) Co Ltd, investing in the United States now looks so much easier than it did before.

Just two hours after US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker gave her welcoming remarks at the 2016 SelectUSA Investment Summit on Monday, Liu said he was surprised that the threshold of investing in the US was not as high as he imagined. "I didn't realize that the US was so eager to attract foreign investment, in a sense even more eager than China," he said.

The summit in Washington on June 19-21 has drawn some 2,400 attendees from 70 markets, including about 150 from the Chinese mainland, the largest of all delegations.