Portrait of a health conference

Brett Giroir (left), CEO of Texas A&M Health Science Center, and Neil Bush (right) present a photo of former US President George H. W. Bush and wife Barbara biking in Beijing as a gift to Cui Tiankan, Chinese ambassador to the United States, at the opening reception for the sixth George H. W. Bush China-US Relations Conference on Monday in Houston. A group of 350 physicians, scientists, policymakers, government officials and business leaders are expected to attend the biennial conference, which ends on Wednesday. Themed Global Infectious Diseases: Prevention, Preparedness, and Response, the conference aims to address how China and the US can work to develop a global strategy that deploys new actions to avert widespread human suffering and economic and social disruption that could result from bioterrorism or epidemics involving the Ebola virus, influenza and other diseases. "This is the great example of the growing China-US relations," said Cui. May Zhou / China Daily.