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us and successful member of the munity of nations — a China that draws on the rights, strengths, and creativity of individual Chinese like return to the proverb — consider the know that more is to be gained when great powers cooperate than when they is a lesson that human beings have learned time and again, and that is the example of the history between our I believe strongly that cooperation must go beyond our must be rooted in our people — in the studies we share, the business that we do, the knowledge that we gain, and even in the sports that we these bridges must be built by young men and women just like you and your counterparts in ’s why I’m pleased to announce that the United States will dramatically expand the number of our students who study in China to 100, these exchanges mark a clear mitment to build ties among our people, as surely as you will help determine the destiny of the 21st I’m absolutely confident that America has no better ambassadors to offer than our young they, just like you, are filled with talent and energy and optimism about the history that is yet to be let this be the next step in the steady pursuit of cooperation that will serve our nations, and the if there’s one thing that we can take from today’s dialogue, I hope that it is a mitment to continue this dialogue going thank you very I look forward now to taking some questions from all of you very much.(Applause.)So — I just want to make sure this is a tradition, by the way, that is very mon in the United States at these town hall what we’re going to do is I will just — if you are interested in asking a question, you can raise your will call on then I will alternate between a question from the audience and an Internet question from one of the students who prepared the questions, as well as I think Ambassador Huntsman may have a question that we were able to obtain from the Web site of our let me begin, though, by seeing — and then what I’ll do is I’ll call on a boy and then a girl and then — so we’ll go back and forth, so that you know it’s right? So I’ll start with this young lady right in the don’t we wait for this microphone so everyone can hear what’s your name?Q My name is(inaudible)and I am a student from Fudan and Chicago have been sister cities since 1985, and these two cities have conduct a wide range of economic, political, and cultural what measures will you take to deepen this close relationship between cities of the United States and China? And Shanghai will hold the World Exposition next you bring your family to visit the Expo? Thank OBAMA: Well, thank you very much for the was just having lunch before I came here with the Mayor of Shanghai, and he told me that he has had an excellent relationship with the city of Chicago — my home town — that he’s visited there I think it’s wonderful to have these exchanges between of the things that I discussed with the Mayor is how both cities can learn from each other on strategies around clean energy, because one of the issues that ties China and America together is how, with an expanding population and a concern for climate change, that we’re able to reduce our carbon obviously in the United States and many developed countries, per capita, per individual, they are already using much more energy than each individual here in as China grows and expands, it’s going to be using more energy as both countries have a great interest in finding new talked about mass transit and the excellent rail lines that are being developed in think we can learn in Chicago and the United States some of the fine work that’s being done on highspeed the United States, I think we are learning how to develop buildings that use much less energy, that are much more I know that with Shanghai, as I traveled and I saw all the cranes and all the new buildings that are going up, it’s very important for us to start incorporating these new technologies so that each building is energyefficient when it es to lighting, when it es to so it’s a terrific opportunity I think for us to learn from each know this is going to be a major focus of the Shanghai World Expo, is the issue of clean energy, as I learned from the so I would love to ’m not sure yet what my schedule is going to be, but I’m very pleased that we’re going to have an excellent at the Expo, and I understand that we expect as many as 70 million visitors it’s going to be very crowded and it’s going to be very has had two world expos in its history, and both of those expos ended up being tremendous boosts for the I’m sure the same thing will happen here in you.(Applause.)Why don’t we get one of the questions from the Internet? And introduce yourself, in case –Q First shall I say it in Chinese, and then the English, okay?PRESIDENT OBAMA: I want to pose a question from the want to thank you, , for visiting China in your first year in office, and exchange views with us in want to know what are you bringing to China, your visit to China this time, and what will you bring back to the United States?(Applause.)PRESIDENT OBAMA: The main purpose of my trip is to deepen my understanding of China and its vision for the have had several meetings now with President participated together in the G20 that was dealing with the economic financial have had consultations about a wide range of I think it’s very important for the United States to continually deepen its understanding of China, just as it’s important for China to continually deepen its understanding of the United terms of what I’d like to get out of this meeting, or this visit, in addition to having the wonderful opportunity to see the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, and to meet with all of you — these are all highlights — but in addition to that, the discussions that I intend to have with President Hu speak to the point that Ambassador Huntsman made earlier, which is there are very few global challenges that can be solved unle