Energy & Environment
The rise of ‘Davos East’
October 2007: As host of the World Economic Forum’s latest initiative, Dalian wants to be seen as the very model of a modern Chinese city
It was quite a coup for Dalian to become “Davos East,” the location for the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) inaugural Asia-based New Champions conference in September. This gathering is intended to become the summer equivalent of the global meeting held in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos every January. Dalian had to fight hard for it, overcoming rival bids from several much bigger Chinese cities as well as a few elsewhere in Asia anxious to raise their international profile.
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