City of Industry, CA – U.S. Representative Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, held his first Competitiveness Council meeting on 21st , an event designed to bring together small and medium businesses for a discussion on how to better compete in the 21st century economy.
Tom Hardy, the Acting Director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and Ms. Sarah Kemp, Minister Counselor of Commerce at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, also are in attendance and discussed export promotion, selling overseas, and market access together with James Lin, CEO of UNIS . Nien Su , the Chief Economic Advisor of the house of committee Foreign Affairs, moderated the panel discussion .
In his remarks , Ed Royce said , “Economic growth, jobs, and prosperity are issues that are extremely important to me. The Southern California Competitiveness Council is an extension of my work over the years on business issues such as export promotion, access to capital, banking reform, and high-tech education. By bringing together southland small and medium businesses into a dialogue, my goal is to promote our business community and help increase your ability to compete in the 21st century economy.”
he said , “Southern California is changing rapidly. We are America’s gateway to the Pacific – where Asia is our “Near West” rather than Far East – and at the same time we are Asia’s gateway to the United States. This means we have tremendous opportunity to sell overseas and domestically to tourists visiting from overseas.”
“As Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I have always placed economic growth and prosperity at the top of my priority list alongside national security. I have the unique opportunity to promote Southern California to the rest of the world. That’s why today’s meeting is so important.” he said.
