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Liu Qi is the Communist Party Secretary of Beijing. He also served as mayor of Beijing, head of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bid Committee, head of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Summer Games etc. He was born in Wujin. He graduated from the Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Engineering and became a professor of engineering.. Then he worked as gas controller, furnaceman, technician and deputy head of No. 3, deputy director, executive deputy manager and manager of Wuhan Iron & Steel Corporation and Minister of the Metallurgical Industry. His organization in Beijing Olympics is praised by all major leaders of various countries in the world. He was named as one of the 100 most influential people of 2007 by Time magazine.

Henry Paulson is one of the world’s financial geniuses. He is US treasury secretary and member of the international monetary fund board of governors. Now, he is one of the most important people in the world. His aim is to prevent more banks and other financial institutions from collapsing and try to limit the economic crisis. He was also worked as chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, independent American bank in New York. He was born in Palm Beach, Florida, to Marianna Gallauer and Henry Merritt Paulson. In childhood, he was a star athlete at Barrington High School. He received his bachelor of arts in English from Dartmouth College and master of business administration degrees from Harvard business school . Then he worked as staff assistant to the assistant secretary of defense and worked for the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon. In 1974, he joined Goldman Sachs and helped Goldman set up its first office in China after he had become a partner of the firm. For this purpose, he had to travel China 75 times. This visits not only helped him to improve his business skills but also helped him understand Chinese’s culture. In 2006, he was appointed as treasury secretary by U.S. President George W. Bush. He helped to create the Hope Now Alliance to help struggling homeowners during the subprime mortgage crisis. He is a hard worker and he wants others to work in the weekends in times of crises as well. Not everyone is not happy with his decisions. DeLay conservatives criticize him for bailing out companies, and for failing to reduce the size of the government. However, these criticisms are ideological ones. After all Paulson is a whole needed person in US and the World.