On March 31, CCICED’s Secretariat held its first Briefing Reception of this year in Beijing Kempinski Hotel to brief and ask advice of the donor governments and organizations on CCICED’s recent progress and its main plans in 2005. Invited to the reception were delegates from foreign delegations in China, such as Canada, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, German, UK, Italy and Holland’s embassies in China, Delegation of the European Commission to China, United Nations Environment Program China Office, Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID) China, German Development Cooperation (GTZ), Sino-Italian Cooperation Program for Environmental Protection, and Shell China Limited. Deputy Secretary General Mr. Xu Qinghua attended the reception and introduced CCICED’s progress to the guests.

Foreign delegates showed great interests in the timely information briefing by the Secretariat and sang high praise for this form of information exchanging, which they said could largely promote their government’s understanding and support of CCICED’s works. They also expressed their expectation that the Secretariat keep them well informed of CCICED’s future works through all methods.