Wang Mengkui, director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, speaks at the opening session of the China Development Forum 2006 in Beijing March 19, 2006. The seventh annual forum, with the theme: China: Promoting Economic Development and Social Harmony, is sponsored by China's Development Research Center of the State Council. [Xinhua Photo]

Foreign participants attend the opening session of the China Development Forum 2006 in Beijing March 19, 2006. [Xinhua Photo]

Ma Kai, minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission, delivers a speech at the opening session of the China Development Forum 2006 in Beijing March 19, 2006.  [Xinhua Photo]

Joseph e. Stiglitz, professor of the Columbian University and Nobel prize winner in economics, delivers a speech at the opening session of the China Development Forum 2006 in Beijing March 19, 2006. [Xinhua Photo]

An overall view of the opening session of the China Development Forum 2006 in Beijing March 19, 2006. [Xinhua Photo]