Top political advisor Jia Qinglin stressed in his speech that emerging industries should be vigorously developed as they could provide low-cost and high-efficiency products.
Green energy was among the six emerging industries that last year Taiwan decided to fast track while the mainland is also planning to strategically develop emerging industries such as biotechnology, information technology and new energy automobiles. Many participants agreed that the new energy auto industry is a "very promising" one for cross-Strait companies' future cooperation.

92% of the Chinese people are estimating that their country has a mostly positive influence in the world, an opinion also shared by 39% of the citizens of 20 other countries included in an opinion survey realized by Maryland University (SUA) and  Globecan institute. In comparison, only 60% of the interviewed Americans have a mainly positive opinion about the role of the United States in the world, and 43% of the respondents of the same 20 countries have a rather vnegative image.