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The Fortune Global Forum 2013 is being held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Chengdu between June 6th and 8th.

Someone has started a new campaign to name Chengdu (a 2,500 year old name, which literally means "becoming a capital") City of Fortune and Capital of Success.

The participants in the forum are listed here and the agenda is here.

From Xinhuanet: "This is the 12th annual forum held by Fortune magazine. It's also the first one hosted by a western Chinese city, following Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing. Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province and is a rising economic engine in China's "West Development Strategy". Last year, Sichuan Province ranked in the top 10 in terms of foreign direct investment utilization."

From China Daily's article "Chengdu gains from Fortune Global Forum":

More than 600 state leaders, CEOs of world-class companies and economists from around the world have registered for this year's event under the theme "China's New Future".

The city will enrich the forum, as it is pertinent to its theme and this year's core topics: sustainable development, innovation and technology.

The city's good infrastructure, convenient transport links and logistic systems, comparatively low labor costs and efficient administration system have attracted 238 companies out of the world's top 500 to the city. Chengdu's GDP was 800 billion yuan ($127 billion) in 2012, accounting for one third of Sichuan province's economy and 8 percent of western China's GDP.


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