From March 12th to 21st, Shen Hanyao, Executive Chairman of the Forum and Dean of the Warton Economic Institute, led a CBT 100 delegation to visit the United States. The delegation visited Miami, St. Mary Albertson, Chairman of the Managers Association, Chairman of the Federation of Governors of the 12 Midwest States, Bob Holden, former Governor of Missouri, and Manish Goyal, Special Representative of the Mayor of San Francisco, etc. In-depth exchanges and discussions on topics such as infrastructure cooperation between the United States and the United States reached a series of consensus, which has laid a good foundation for promoting in-depth cooperation between China's top 500 listed companies and top 100 cities and relevant units in the United States.

From March 12th to 15th, Shen Hanyao and his entourage attended the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM2017) held in Miami and delivered a keynote speech. The National Association of University Technology Managers is an internationally renowned technology exchange event attended by more than 1,000 directors of technology transfer offices from more than 300 universities in North America. Shen Hanyao pointed out in his speech that North American universities have gathered a large number of world-class talents and scientific research achievements. It is the most important supplier of cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements in the world, and China's top 100 are the most powerful demanders and investors of scientific and technological achievements. There are many fields and broad prospects for cooperation between the two parties. Shen Hanyao also introduced that the forum organizing committee intends to build an international scientific and technological innovation industry chain integrating scientific and technological innovation research and development, incubation, trading and transformation in cooperation with universities in North America, Chuzhou in China, Zhangjiang in Shanghai and other places, among which the universities in North America focus on Focus on scientific and technological innovation research and development, play the role of the main force and origin of global scientific and technological innovation, and export its achievements to China; Chuzhou, China focuses on the transaction and transformation of scientific and technological innovation achievements, and builds a globally attractive and influential scientific and technological innovation transaction and transformation center; Shanghai Zhangjiang and other places focus on the incubation and industrialization of scientific and technological innovation achievements, and build a gathering place for global scientific and technological innovation incubators and accelerators. Relevant parties jointly established the Global Science and Technology Innovation Alliance, and on this basis will launch a new technology and innovation achievement securitization trading system - the global science and technology innovation transaction transformation system. The speech was highly appreciated by representatives of North American universities. Stanford University, Yale University, University of Washington, University of Waterloo and other universities all expressed their willingness to develop joint development with China and jointly promote the international transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

During their visit to the United States, Shen Hanyao and his party also visited the University of Washington, Stanford University and other universities, as well as a number of high-tech companies and incubators in Silicon Valley, and agreed that the United States will return to Shanghai and Chuzhou in April to further promote the construction of the global science and technology alliance and global science and technology trading system.

In order to actively respond to the national "the Belt and Road" initiative and support China's top 500 listed companies to better participate in infrastructure reconstruction in the United States, Shen Hanyao and his delegation also went to Missouri, California and other places from March 16 to 20 to discuss cooperation in infrastructure and other fields with local governments. China and the United States have conducted in-depth discussions on the cooperation mode between China's top 500 listed companies and the local governments of US states and cities in establishing government enterprise cooperation relations and jointly investing in, building and operating infrastructure. The United States welcomes China's top 500 listed companies to participate in local infrastructure construction and is willing to provide support and incentives to China. The relevant state and municipal governments will sort out a number of projects and provide them to China as soon as possible, and designate special personnel to connect with China, The Organizing Committee of the forum will also organize special docking between the top 500 listed companies and the US side as soon as possible to help Chinese top 500 listed companies better "go global".

Heads of relevant units such as China Metallurgical Group, Anhui Chuzhou, Shanghai Zhangjiang, and CBT 100 Funds participated in the delegation.