Mr. Zhou Wenzhong, China's ambassador to the United States of America, presides over the opening bell.

Monday September 10, 2007
from Nasdaq MarketSite
in New York's Times Square

Mr. Zhou Wenzhong
China's ambassador to the United States of America

48 Chinese companies are listed on NASDAQ with a combined market capitalization of $39 billion.

Zhou, born in east China's Jiangsu Province in August 1945, began his diplomatic career as a staff member of the Beijing Diplomatic Service Bureau from 1970 to 1973. From 1973 to 1975, Zhou studied at Bath University and London School of Economics in the UK.

After his return from Britain, he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was posted abroad on several missions, including as attache and then third Secretary of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the United States from 1978 to 1983, consul general (Ambassadorial-level) of the PRC in Los Angeles from 1994 to 1995 and minister of the Embassy of the PRC in the United States from 1995 to 1998.

He was deputy director general of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1994.

Zhou became vice foreign minister in 2003 and then Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United States in 2005.

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