By Associated Press - Saturday, April 22, 2017

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Business leaders from China and the U.S. are gathering at Harvard University for one of the largest conferences of its kind.

The annual, student-run Harvard China Forum brings more than 100 notable figures to the Ivy League campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This weekend’s slate of speakers includes former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

Lucy Peng Lei, co-founder of Alibaba, and Zhen Liu, the former head of Uber China, are also among those taking part in panel discussions on foreign relations, manufacturing, technology, education and a range of other issues.



The conference, which began in 1997, is expected to draw over 1,000 attendees. It began Friday night and continues through Sunday.

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