Welcoming Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software
Architect, Microsoft Corporation
Friendship Luncheon Honoring Hu Jintao, President, People's
Republic of China
Everett, Washington
April 19, 2006
BILL GATES: Thank you, Governor Locke, for the kind
introduction. It is my great pleasure, as a representative of the
Washington state business community, to welcome President Hu to the
United States.
Ladies and gentleman, a few words about President Hu’s
distinguished public and political career. President Hu Jintao is a
graduate of Qinghua University, China’s most prestigious science
and engineering university. He began his career as an engineer in
Western China.
Since the early 1970s, President Hu held important positions in
both local and central government. In 1992, he became the you