<正> WHEN heads of economic colossi such as Sir John Bond, chairman of the SHBCGroup, Michael Treschow, chairman of Ericsson, Nick Scheele, president and chief operating officer of Ford, Gary Rogers, chairman of GE, Taizo Nishimuro, chairman of Toshiba, and distinguished scholars Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley chief economist, and Erik Berglof, director of Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics under the Stockholm School of Economics, gather, there is assuredly a weighty matter of common interest at hand. Their convergence on March 23-24, 2003 in Beijing was oh the occasion of the China Development Forum.