The United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, is organizing a Clean Energy and Environment Trade Mission to China and India, September 1-12, 2008. The trade mission will target a broad range of clean energy and environmental technologies such as renewable energy, biofuels, energy efficiency, clean coal, distributed generation, waste handling and treatment, wastewater treatment, packaging recycling, and drinking water treatment. The mission will make stops in Beijing, Jinan, and Shanghai, China as well as New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mumbai, India. It will be led by Assistant Secretary of Commerce David Bohigian.

Through this mission, ITA seeks to match participating U.S. companies with prescreened partners, agents, distributors, representatives, licensees, or retailers in each of these important sectors. In addition to one-on-one business meetings, the agenda will also include meetings with national and local government officials, networking opportunities, country briefings, seminars, and site visits.

In the China Environment Conference in December 2007 at Berkeley, one of the guest professors mentioned that China will need help from the West in the area of capacity building. By matching "participating U.S. companies will be matched with prescreened partners and etc.

However, it is unclear to me what the pre-screening process is and how it is conducted. Is not clean energy and environment an issue for the entire country of China, not just particular sectors?

The full article can be found here: Clean Energy and Environment Trade Mission to China and India