CRI英语听力2012年06月合辑（文本）：B20-SUMMIT-TO-KICK-OFF-IN-MEXICO.doc

1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家The Business-20 Summit, also known as B20, is an international forum aimed at gathering the opinions of global corporate leaders. Their recommendations are passed on to G20 leaders in order to help address key global issues with understanding and experience from the private sector. T

2、his years B20 will kick off soon in Mexico.Ding Lulu has more.The B20 Summit is scheduled to open on Sunday in Los Cabos, Mexico, just one day before the G20 Leaders Summit in the same coastal city.About 450 CEOs of leading global companies will attend the summit, including more than 20 corporate le

3、aders from China. Their discussions will focus on eight themes, according to Alejandro Ramirez, chair of the organizing committee of the B20.The eight themes are Green Growth, Information and Communication Techonologies (ICT) and Innovation, Food Security, Trade and Investment, Employment, Financing

4、 for Growth and Development, Transparency and Anti-Corruption, and Advocacy and Impact.The last one - Adocacy and Impact - runs across all the other seven task forces and is designed to track past recommendations and ensure follow-up action.Ramirez and his colleagues believe that business plays an i

5、mportant role in helping governments combat those global and critical challenges. The main objective of B20 is to foster dialogue between G20 government leaders and the business community. Therefore, some B20 topics are chosen from the agenda of the G20.We chose the seven topics because they are on

6、the G20 agenda. This year the Mexican presidency of the G20 put Green Growth, Food Security and Financial Inclusion in the agenda, so we include those in the B20 Summit because we try to mirror what the G20 leaders are discussing. They also added some topics that the business community are highly co

7、ncerned with.We added employment because it is one of the critical international issues at the moment with high unemployment levels in a large part of G20. And trade and investment, because we think trade and investment should always be in the agenda, we believe it should be a permanent item, and we

8、 believe trade is one of the engines of economic growth. So we need to promote more international trade to restore economic growth. As for the difference between the Mexican Summit and previous ones, Ramirez said the host determined to ensure that the B20 recommendations are specific, implementable,

9、 and prioritized, and that action plans are clearly defined.It is a more focused B20 with a lower number of task forces, so instead of having 12 task forces, we have seven task forces plus one advocacy and impact. We have prioritized our recommendations. In past B20s, all recommendations were given

10、the same level of importance. In this B20, we will have one or at most two prioritized task forces, and that allows for more effective follow-up and assessment of impact that the recommendation is having.The first B20 Summit was held in Seoul, South Korea in November, 2010 while the second was held in France in June, 2011.For CRI, this is DLL. 版权所有高考资源网