The 3rd Cross-strait Economic and Trade Forum was hosted by the China Society of World Economics on June 20th 2009.  This year's theme was accelerating economic cooperation and promoting mutual developments. TIER President Dr. David Hong was invited by the CSWE, along with 80 economists and experts, to discuss important issues Including:

1. Emerging trend towards cross-strait economic and trade relationship

2. Cross-strait economic cooperation mechanism

3. Path to cross-strait mutual developments and Asia-Pacific economic cooperation

4.New topics of cross-strait economic and financial cooperation under the circumstances of global financial crisis