On March 1, 2024, at the invitation of the American Chamber of Commerce in the People's Republic of China (AmCham China), Vice President Han Zheng attended and addressed the AmCham China Annual Appreciation Dinner in Beijing.

Han Zheng said, as this year marks the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden exchanged congratulatory letters. The "San Francisco vision" reached at the meeting between the two heads of state last year has charted the course for the stable, sound and sustainable development of China-U.S. relations and drawn a blueprint. Over the past half century, China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation has achieved tangible results and made important contributions to the economic and social development of both countries. The business communities of the two countries are participants, witnesses and contributors to the bilateral cooperation, and will also be pioneers of more and better cooperation in the future. Han Zheng expressed the hope that the business circles of China and the United States will consolidate the foundation of friendship and mutual trust, actively expand cooperation areas, create a favorable environment for development, and promote China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation for mutual benefit as well as steady and sustained progress.

Han Zheng said that China's economy has strong resilience, great potential and vast space, and new drivers and advantages are still developing and growing. As China's development achievements have been made in the opening up, China will unswervingly expand opening up at a high level, continue to reduce the negative list for foreign investment access, effectively guarantee the national treatment for foreign-funded enterprises, and foster a market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment to provide more opportunities for companies of all countries, including American companies, for their development in China. Noting that the China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation has huge potential, broad space and promising prospects, Han Zheng welcomed more friends from the U.S. business community to invest and do business in China. He expressed the expectation that AmCham China can keep in mind its original intention and forge ahead, strengthen communication and contacts with the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and other organizations, and jointly push for more results in China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation.

Nearly 500 representatives from the business communities of China and the United States attended the event. Before the start of the event, Han Zheng had a group meeting with the main foreign representatives and took a group photo.