Execs pay top dollar for audience with China's leaders

The China Development Forum this weekend may be the most important economic summit you have never heard of. Proceeds go to "relevant research projects and administrative expenses of the conference", which is organised by the little-known China Development Research Foundation (CDRF), a proxy for one of the Communist government's planning agencies. The forum, which is in its 17th year, directly follows the annual meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's rubber stamp legislature, an