Cutting bureaucracy for businesses, along with fiscal and tax reform are the two primary tasks that Li has promised to push through this year.

Geithner, who is spending two days meeting a team of officials from the Chinese government, said the two countries should strengthen communication and cooperation.

Questions:

1. Who did Premier Li Keqiang meet on Tuesday?

2. With which country did the US recently sign a defense agreement?

3. Who said “reform is the driving force for economic expansion?”

Answers:

1. Former US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner.

2. The Philippines.

3. Premier Li.

About the broadcaster:

Anne Ruisi is an editor at China Daily online with more than 30 years of experience as a newspaper editor and reporter. She has worked at newspapers in the U.S., including The Birmingham News in Alabama and City Newspaper of Rochester, N.Y.

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