On May 13th, ACSI will host a virtual roundtable discussion with Chinese Commercial Consul Mr. Yingzhi Hu to discuss the current and future outlook on trade & investment in addition to the opportunities forward in the Indiana-China business relationship. This ACSI Member exclusive event will include a short presentation by Mr. Hu followed by a moderated Q&A session.

About Yingzhi Hu:

Mr. Yingzhi Hu joined Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago in January 2020 to be the Commercial Consul. Before that he was Deputy Director-General in the Department of WTO Affairs, Ministry of Commerce of China (MOFCOM), responsible for trade policy reviews in the World Trade Organization (WTO), trade in services and new issues including E-commerce and investment facilitation in the multilateral framework, and also certain Free Trade Agreement negotiations.

Mr. Hu was engaged in multilateral trade affairs in MOFCOM for more than 20 years. At the time of China’s WTO accession negotiations, he was responsible for services negotiations at the technical-level. Mr. Hu served in the Permanent Mission of China at Geneva from May 1998 till the end of 2001, responsible for issues related to China’s accession. After China’s WTO accession, he was in charge of trade policy reviews of China and other Members, and also agriculture issues as Division Director. He also coordinated the last-stage negotiations between China and Australia for a free trade agreement till its signing and entry into force.

Mr. Hu graduated from the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing in 1994 with Bachelor of Economics. In 2007 and 2008 he studied in the University of Edinburgh in the UK and was granted Master of Laws.