Gates joined the new international business advisory group advice for the British government

Gates Microsoft chairman Bill will advise the British government to respond to the global competition, can with the rapid development of economy and the competition of India Chinese. Gates has been appointed as a member of the new international business advisory group (Ibac), 12 of the world's leading economic leaders, and is expected to present trade and industry advice to the UK Treasury Secretary, Mr Gordon, and Secretary of state for the next three years.

Other high-tech personnel into the CEO eBay Meg Whitman, chairman of the board of directors of the India Tata Ratan Tata and Hutchison Whampoa Ka-shing Ibac Group Li. They will be more traditional industry leaders sitting together, like Tesco CEO Terry Leahy, Wal Mart CEO Lee Scott and BP CEO Lord Browne. Ibac annual meeting, the first meeting will be held this year in Downing street.

Brown said: "today for advanced industrial countries, there is no more important than the face of global competition and opportunities." He also said: "the Advisory Panel will advise us how to do to accept the challenge, to ensure that the UK continues to become one of the world's major economies of high value-added."

Ibac aims to discuss how to improve the competitiveness of the UK, including a detailed global competition.