CNCC
(Communications and Negotiation Committee China) to the United States
Participating in the ABC (The Association for Business Communication)
International Conference
On April 12-14, 2018, after the event of
the TNC (Negotiation Challenge) global negotiation competiation held in San
Francisco, Chairman Zeng Xiaochun led Deputy Commissioner Mei Hua and Secretary
General Zhang Shougang to Cincinnati, United States to attend the ABC International
Conference, and during Visit at West Virginia University as a scholar, the
Deputy Secretary-General of Xia Mingxue also drove to attend the meeting. This
meeting was a return visit after signing a cooperation memorandum with the ABC
organization in 2015. Through this return visit, the friendship between the two
organizations was consolidated.

(From
left to right: Zhang Shougang, Zeng Xiaochun, Xia Mingxue, Meihua)

(From
left to right in the figure is the first vice president of the ABC, Marcel
Robles)

(Chairman
Zeng Xiaochun and former President ABC Kathryn Rentz)

(Deputy
Secretary-General Xia Mingxue and former President of ABC ,Deborah Roebuck)
(Director
Zeng Xiaochun and Lisa Gueldenzoph Snyder, President of ABC, USA)
(President
Zeng Xiaochun and Marcel Robles, First Deputy President of ABC, USA)

(President
Zeng Xiaochun and Geert Jacobs, Second Vice President of ABC, USA)
(President
Zeng Xiaochun and James Dubinsky, Executive Director of ABC, USA)
(Secretary
member and Kathryn Rybka, Regional Director of ABC Midwest, USA (right one))
(Secretary
of the secretary group and Terke Sekine (second from left), vice president of
ABC Midwest, Kristin Pickering, vice president of ABC Midwest (third from left)
At
the ABC annual meeting, the Secretary-General of the Committee Zhang Shougang presented
the Development of a Conceptual Model and Questionnaire of Principled
Negotiation and Deputy Director Mei Hua presented A Study on The Effectiveness
of Business Negotiations in Trade papers fully demonstrated the academic level
of our members.

(Deputy
director Meihua)
(Secretary
General Zhang Shougang)
During the ABC annual meeting, The CNCC
members discussed cooperation with the editor of the journal of IJBC (International
Journal of Business Communication, SSCI index).
(From
right to left second and third main editor: Jacqueline Mayfield and Milton
Mayfield)
During
the ABC annual meeting, met with a group of American scholars engaged in
communication and negotiation studies for the next step in the
internationalization of the work of the members, such as the international
negotiation contest judges, and the invitation of academic exchanges to open up
new prospects.

(Secretary General Zhang Shougang and
Katherine Robisch, Professor, Kent State University)
(Deputy Secretary General Xia Mingxue and
Professor Tatiana Kolovou of Kelley School of Business of Indiana University)