Over the months ahead, I’ll be posting to the U.S.-China Clean Energy blog more reporting on U.S. cleantech firms that secured deals during the Hu Jintao State Visit (January 18-21):

This series will include coverage of:

  1. the Wanxiang-Ener1 deal to supply high-quality U.S. batteries to electric buses in China
  2. Goldwind USA’s planned expansion of U.S. production and employment
  3. a deal siting a PV manufacturing plant near a U.S. Energy Innovation Cluster (EIC) and U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC)
  4. the clean energy aspect of huge new deals by GE and Boeing.

Please check back for these.  In the meanwhile, here’s my personal view of the Arrival Ceremony for Hu Jintao:

John Smith (Chairman of Global Philadelphia Association) and  I had the honor to be asked by Mayor Nutter to attend this ceremony.
Courtesy of my iPhone, here is a mix of the music, video, and stills from that ceremony arranged in the sequence that they occurred.  Two things to watch for:
  • Just after Hu and Obama are first seen on the podium, look for the clouds of gunpowder near the foot of the Washington Monument during the 21 gun salute and
  • In the next shots, look to the right at the base of the podium and you can glimpse Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullin in the area where the rest of the Cabinet was stationed out of my camera view.