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CBI Member China Successes August 2015

 

 

 

Dear CBI Members and partners,

Please find the August 2015 China Member Success Summary attached below for your reference.

CBI members mentioned include:

• American International Group
• BBC Worldwide
• Bentley Motors
• Boeing
• BP
• British Airways
• Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
• Clifford Chance
• Devro
• Diageo
• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
• Fuji Xerox
• GKN
• Glasgow Caledonian University
• Heathrow Airport Limited
• HSBC
• Huawei
• InterContinental Hotels Group
• King’s College London
• The London Taxi Company
• Philips
• PwC
• Shell
• UBM
• University of Birmingham
• University of Nottingham

Download CBI China, Celebrating CBI member success in China, August 2015

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visits China

 

 

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visits China

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited China, where she undertook a series of high-profile business engagements to promote Scottish business in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, including hosting an ‘innovation’ showcase for Scottish companies to meet with Chinese investors. 

In total, Scottish firms signed partnership agreements in China worth more than £43 million, which are expected to create 70 jobs in Scotland. Examples of key announcements included:

• J&D Wilkie is building a new £3 million factory in Jianxing near Shanghai to enable it produce      technical textiles products and increase its competitiveness by bringing its entire yarn-spinning operations into one location. The deal will safeguard 90 jobs in Scotland and has the potential to double the J&D Wilkie positions in China. 
• Glasgow-based Digimania announced a 3D animation software training partnership with the Shanghai Arts and Design Academy as well as a joint venture with Chinese partner Pikatoons. The deals will increase Digimania’s revenue from China by approximately £12 million over three years, creating 12 new jobs in  Scotland and 14 new jobs in China.
• KAL ATM Software signed a partnership with JustTide, the Chinese OEN supplier, which will manufacture Retail Teller Machines (RTMs) for the worldwide market. 
• Aberdeen-based Plexus gained a multi-million pound investment from Jereh, one of the largest private oil firms in China. They also signed a collaboration agreement with China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL), Red Sea Technologies (RST), and Jereh to explore shallow water subsea and crossover wellhead production systems in China. COSL is majority owned by CNOOC.
• Technology companies Care Visions and Calnex Solutions signed trade deals alongside energy firms  SgurrEnergy Glasgow and GB Therma Chem and information technology companies Distrify Media and We.data.

The First Minister also undertook a series of cultural and educational engagements, which resulted in announcements such as:

• Scotland and China renewed the cultural Memorandum of Understanding, first signed in 2011, committing both sides to further collaboration in the arts and creative industries.
• The Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) signed an agreement to encourage further collaboration in the performing arts. Chinese artists will perform at the EIF, the Edinburgh fringe, and the Tattoo.
• Aberdeen University, Edinburgh Napier University, and English language training firm TEFL Scotland also signed deals.

 

 

CBI Member Successes in China - Snapshot of Year of the The Horse

 

Dear CBI members and strategic partners,

China Direct would like to share with you a snapshot of CBI members' successes in China through 2014. We hope that you found our new format easy to use, visual and informative and wish you all every success for the forthcoming year of the sheep.

Please do keep sending us your updates and press releases so that your business can also be highlighted in 2015.

Thank you.

Download CBI Beijing, Member Milestones in China, 2014

China's top hot dog? Devro announces impressive China growth.

 

[Image courtesy of www.devro.com]

CBI member Devro, the world's leading supplier of collagen casings for food, recently announced its 2011 financial results, reporting continued strong performance, with operating profit before exceptional items up 15.5%, reaching £42.7 million. Devro's revenue in 2011 was £227.7 million, an increase of 6.6% compared to the previous year.

Devro continued to expand in China, strengthening its sales and technical teams in Hong Kong and opening a representative office in Beijing last year. The increased focus on the region has already produced higher sales in South East Asia.

Although 2011 sales volumes in China were limited, Devro's products have been introduced to, and trialled at, all of the leading sausage manufacturers in China, with a view to developing increased business in 2012 and 2013. The long-term prospects for China remain attractive.

Please click here to read Devro's full results for 2011.

SDI - seeking Head of Greater China

 

 

Scottish Development International (SDI) is recruiting for the position of Head of Greater China. The individual will be responsible for executing SDI’s activities in Greater China, including managing a team of locally engaged staff in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan to promote trade and investment between Greater China and Scotland, and to contribute, where appropriate, to the Scottish Government’s wider aims in Greater China.

The successful candidate will also be expected to develop and execute an integrated sales and marketing strategy for Greater China based on the economic development strategies of the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise and SDI.

Click here for full details.

*Stop Press* Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang arrives in Scotland

 

 

FIRST MINISTER WELCOMES CHINESE STATE VISIT

Vice Premier Li Keqiang to visit Pelamis Wave Power in Edinburgh.

The First Minister will welcome Vice Premier Li Keqiang and six Chinese Ministers to Scotland this Sunday as the delegation starts their UK state visit in Edinburgh.

The capital will be the first stop for the senior delegations' four-day visit to the UK (January 9-12) where they will undertake an extensive programme of meetings with Ministers, business leaders, and visit business and industrial sites.

Discussions in Edinburgh will focus on Scotland's renewables and low carbon energy industry. The delegation will visit Pelamis Wave Power, based in Leith, and attend a presentation on Scotland's rapidly growing offshore wind, wave and tidal energy industry.

The delegation will undertake a series of meetings and visits with Scottish Government Ministers while in Scotland, including a meeting between the Vice Premier and the First Minister at Bute House, and a state dinner at Edinburgh Castle.

The Vice Premier, and the following Ministers will visit Scotland:

• Vice Minister of Commerce and China International Trade Representative Gao Hucheng;
• Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Fu Ying;
• Vice Minister of Railways Wang Zhiguo;
• Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council You Quan;
• Vice Chairman, National Development and Reform Commission Xu Xianping;
• Deputy Head of the State Council Research Office Ning Jizhe
• Vice Governor of the People's Bank of China Yi Gang. 
• The delegation will be accompanied by the Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Liu Xiaoming, and the Scottish Consul General, Madam Tan.

The delegation will travel to London on Monday for engagements with Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

First Minister Alex Salmond said:

"The Scottish Government recognises the importance of strengthening Sino-Scottish  links. Over the past two years I have led trade missions to China in our continuing work to increase the economic, educational and cultural bonds between our two countries.

"It is important that the Scottish Government, our agencies, businesses and educational organisations continue to do all they can to advance our relationship with China, particularly as we pursue every opportunity to build sustainable economic growth across Scotland.

"I am delighted that the Vice Premier will begin his state visit in Edinburgh and will learn more about Scotland's rapidly growing renewable energy sector.

"Scotland has unrivalled natural resources and established expertise in energy engineering, particularly offshore and the Scottish Government is committed to working with China in this sector.

"China already has the largest deployment of on-shore renewable technology , and Scotland is a world-leader in pioneering the technology and application of clean, green off-shore energy. 

Therefore, the economic opportunities for Scotland are enormous in terms of wind and marine energy technology developers and manufacturers, and for potential investors across the world.

Many Scottish energy companies such  as the Glasgow based Sgurr Energy have already entered the Chinese market and this visit will help to showcase the innovation and skills that Scotland's green energy sector offers.

"I look forward to welcoming this high-powered delegation to Scotland and leading discussions to advance our relationship with China."

Chief executive of Scottish Development International, Anne MacColl, said: 

" Scotland is strong in many of China's key strategic growth sectors such as renewable energy, life sciences and financial services and increasing trade between Scotland and China as well as expanding business and academia connections between our two countries is recognised as key to the future growth of the Scottish economy. 

This state visit will signal an encouraging start to 2011 for further developing and strengthening Sino-Scottish links."

China Direct would like to thank its colleagues at CBI Scotland for kindly supplying this information.

More information on the Scotland visit can be downloaded below:

Download China VP Visit to Scotland Background 07.01.11

China Tomorrow - Life Sciences Event - Glasgow 05 November

 

 
[Image courtesy of www.faqs.org]

China Direct is delighted to invite CBI members based in Scotland to the following event in Glasgow on Fri 05 November.

To register please click here.

Background:

This free day-long event will address the processes and issues involved in working on projects in the life sciences sector and explore the opportunities in the Chinese market for Scottish businesses.

The event is supported and co-organised by Scottish Development International (SDI) – the international arm of Scottish Enterprise, and also Smart Exporter, a new international trade skills programme.

China Tomorrow will see these organisations collaborating with the China-Britain Business Council (CBBC) – the UK’s leading organisation that helps British companies grow and develop their business in China.

 THE EVENT WILL

• Highlight the business opportunities in China to companies in the life sciences sector
• Create a shared platform to explore CBBC networks
• Illustrate the support available to assist the international plans of individual companies
• Introduce you to key business contacts from a wide range of areas, such as IP, tax and business culture
• Give you the opportunity to receive an abbreviated in-market research report on the life sciences sector
• Network & attend a one to one session with key speakers, counterparts from the life sciences sector in China and senior representatives of CBBC and SDI