Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, August 10, met respectively with some of the foreign leaders attending the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and other events, including U.S. President George W. Bush, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. 

When meeting with Bush, Wen said China will work on balancing its trade position and enhancing the protection of intellectual property rights, and it hoped the United States would ease rules on high-tech exports to China and recognize China's full market economy status. 

Bush responded the United States expected to enhance dialogue and cooperation with China and to carry on the strategic economic dialogue, strengthen energy and environmental cooperation and jointly cope with climate change and other global challenges, making the dialogue a platform for the cooperation between the two countries in the 21st century.

 (China IP News)