中国美国商会举办与美国财政部长耶伦的座谈会

AmCham China Hosts Roundtable with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

7月7日，中国美国商会有幸举办与美国财政部长耶伦的座谈会，与会人员包括美国驻华大使伯恩斯、财政部其他官员以及近十余位商界领袖。

On July 7, AmCham China had the honor of hosting a roundtable with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, other members of the Treasury department, and nearly a dozen business leaders.

中国美国商会总裁何迈可在会议致辞时感谢美国财政部长耶伦的来访，并指出美国商界呼吁中美两国在各个层面加强交流，包括学生、学术领袖、商界人士和政府官员。

AmCham China President Michael Hart opened the meeting by thanking the Secretary for her visit and noting that the American business community has called for more exchanges between China and the US at all levels, including students, academic leaders, business people and government officials.

何迈可总裁表示，财长耶伦强调 “如果我们与中国的沟通遇到困难，我们可以考虑从重启经贸谈话开始”，这是在华美国商界的共识。何迈可还指出，尽管双边关系面临挑战，但美中商界仍通过雇用、采购、生产、消费、销售等其他经营活动，努力寻找共同发展方向，使其既体现美国商业典范又有利于美中两国的经贸发展。

Hart said that Yellen's statement "that if we are having trouble communicating with China, we should at least start by talking about economics" was a viewpoint shared by the US business community in China. He also noted that, despite challenges in the bilateral relationship, the business community tried to find common cause with counterparts in China by employing, sourcing, producing, buying, selling, and otherwise operating in a manner that both reflects American values and benefits the United States and China.

耶伦在开幕致辞中谈到，她希望进一步深化双边沟通，包括在经济问题上的沟通，这是拜登总统和习近平主席去年11月在巴厘岛会晤时所做的指示。耶伦说：“我们认为，确保美中高层保持直接、明确的沟通渠道符合两国的最佳利益。在经济领域，与中国有关官员的定期交流有助于我们监控经济和金融风险，也有助于为两国之间建立健康的经济关系创造条件。”

In her opening remarks, Secretary Yellen spoke of her desire to further the goal – first stated by Presidents Biden and Xi at their meeting in Bali last November – of deepening bilateral communications, including on economic issues, saying, "We believe that it is in the best interests of both countries to make sure we have direct and clear lines of communication at senior levels. In the economic realm, regular exchanges with our Chinese counterparts can help US monitor economic and financial risks, and it can help create the conditions for a healthy economic relationship between our two countries."

耶伦指出，美国寻求与中国进行良性经济竞争。但强调只有通过公平竞争，良性经济竞争才可持续，从而使双方都能从中受益。她还补充道，她向中国有关官员转达了美国商界的各种担忧，包括中国使用非市场手段，如增大对中国国有企业和国内企业的补贴，并对外国企业市场准入设置壁垒等。她对近几个月针对美国企业的惩罚性行动尤感不安。

Secretary Yellen noted that the US seeks healthy economic competition with China, but emphasized that healthy economic competition where both sides benefit is only sustainable if that competition is fair. She further added that she raised various concerns from the US business community with her Chinese counterparts, including China's use of non-market tools such as expanded subsidies for state-owned enterprises and domestic firms, as well as barriers to market access for foreign firms, noting that she had been particularly troubled by punitive actions taken against US firms in recent months.

耶伦还表示，她相信进一步的市场改革符合中国自身的利益，并指出过去基于市场的做法帮助推动了中国的快速增长，创造了“非凡的经济成功的实例” 。最后，耶伦强调，世界最大的两个经济体之间的脱钩将破坏全球经济稳定，而且几乎不可能做到，且两国之间的贸易在2022年达到了历史最高水平。

Secretary Yellen said that she believes further market reforms would be in China's interests, noting that a market-based approach in the past had helped spur rapid growth in China, creating what she termed a "remarkable economic success story." Finally, she emphasized that a decoupling of the world's two largest economies would be destabilizing for the global economy and virtually impossible to undertake, noting that trade between the two countries reached an all-time high in 2022.

随后的闭门会议持续了一个多小时，中国美国商会会员企业向美国财政部长耶伦介绍了各自在中国面临的营商挑战。出席会议的包括中国美国商会副主席李碧菁（和睦家医疗）和中国美国商会董事会成员谢利嘉（波音公司）。

The closed-door meeting that followed lasted for over an hour, during which AmCham China member companies briefed the Secretary on the situation their companies face on the ground in China. Those in attendance included AmCham China Vice Chair Roberta Lipson (United Family Healthcare) and AmCham China Board member Sherry Carbary (Boeing).

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