Premier's Trade Mission to China
6 October to 14 October 2008
Beijing / Jinan / Shanghai / Hangzhou
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Singapore Airlines touched down Beijing International Airport at 1130 p.m on the 6th Oct 2008. We have been travelling for the last 48hrs; headed straight for our luggage, EXIT to currency exchange. Australia dollar exchanging at 4.3.
At 7 a.m. on the 7th Oct, there was breaking news that "AUSTRALIA'S central bank will slash interest rates by one percentage point amid fears of a global slowdown sparked by the US-based financial crisis".
Welcome to our selling South Australia in China!
AustCham in Beijing (pop 22mil) hosted our first seminar. Premier Mike Rann gave a very impressive speech highlighting South Australia coming as 4th in the Frazer Institute of Mining Survey out of a jurisdiction of 68 worldwide. China immediately knew where our delegation was from.
Education in South Australia became the top priority for our Chinese attendees, followed by Venture Capital Investment for the next "boom town". It was easy to sell.
Beijing & Shanghai (pop 25mil) seminars and networking sessions went into overdrive. There were queries of cost of living (and at 7th Oct rate) with many admitting it was cheap.
The Jinan Planetary Session in the Province of Shandong our sister-state (pop 96 mil) introduced the Mining sectors to our mineral resources, business communities and our aeromagnetic survey invention; again scoring points from their School of Geology to send students to our Centre of Exploration, Adelaide University. Special thanks to our keynote speaker Jason Kuchel and everyone on the panel.
Food and Wine took centre stage as well. Many of the Chinese companies did their homework and when we met up again at dinnertime were able to tell "us" of South Australia's pristine waters and fresh seafood. Amazing what a drop in OZ dollar can do overseas!
AND, I am glad we will be networking with our first return Shandong Delegation of 25 delegates on 27th Oct organised by DTED.
My impression is "China can and will buy from us if only the State of South Australia is willing to sell". Let's hope it happens.
Buddha Bar
Level 1/31-39 Gouger Street Adelaide
Date: Thursday 17/4/2008
Time: 6pm to 8:30pm
Bookings:
Edmund Ng - 0413 089 833
K See - 0418 830 968
Chinese Chamber of Commerce SA
115A Gouger Street Adelaide 5000
Telephone: +61 8 8410 5838
Facsimile: +61 8 8410 4757
Mobile: 0413 089 833
Email: office@chinesechamber.com.au
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On Saturday 16th Feb 2008 Chinese Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 19th Chinese New Year black tie Dinner based on the theme "towards a greener Australia". Chair of the organising Committee Mr Kok Wah See welcomed the 310 guests to the Ballroom at Hyatt Hotel. Mr See spoke on the importance of sustainable energy as we enter year 4706 by the Chinese calendar year. He said our actions of today perhaps can best be described as of what our future generation would like from us.
"You are alive at a pivotal moment in humanity's development.
You are making some of the most important choices in human history.
Your era is marked by positive and negative potentials of such newness and magnitude that you can hardly understand them.
Through your public policies and daily lives, the people of your era have tremendous power to influence the future course of humanity's story.
We strongly care about your choices, of course, since we benefit or suffer from them quite directly.
We live downstream from you in time; whatever you put into the stream flows on to our era."
Alan Tough
Guest of Honour speaker Senator the Hon Penny Wong spoke passionately about climate change and water with the "obvious of the two issues being two sides of the same coin".
Lieutenant Governor Hieu Van Le was CCCSA 2008 "Golden Achiever of the Year".
Lieutenant Governor Hieu Van Le is the first Asian to head the state's Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission. Today he has an MBA and an Economics degree from the University of Adelaide. He has been working as a senior investigator and manager with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission since the early 1990s.
It has been an extraordinary journey for Mr Hieu Van Le who is the first Vietnamese refugee ever to be appointed to a vice regal position anywhere in the world.
Edmund Ng, Jason Chong, Helen Paul
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KSee, Teresa Whitehorn, Edmund Ng
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Mr Philip Winter, Mr Chris Chong and Ms Robyn Brown
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Janet Chin, Mark Davis
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Maria Galatsanos, Chris Chong, Robyn Brown, Professor Taplin, Mr and Mrs Hieu Van Le, Kok Wah See, Mr Ng, Mr Koh Thong Keong
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9th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention Japan 2007
Over 3,000 ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs from around the world gathered Saturday in Kobe, Japan to enhance business exchange and networking in the 9th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (WCEC).
Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Jia Qinglin, who is visiting Japan, congratulated the opening of the convention through a keynote speech.
It is significant that the WCEC is held in Japan at the 35th anniversary marking the normalization of bilateral diplomatic ties between China and Japan, Jia said, hoping that the convention will promote economic and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Overseas ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs have been actively participating in international economic cooperation and competition as well as building economic networking around the world, Jia said, adding that they have been contributing to the global economy in a unique way.
Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said at the ceremony that he hoped the conference can gather the economic energy of global Chinese entrepreneurs and also can connect with Japanese business circle.
Former Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda, candidate of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party presidential election scheduled next week, also sent his congratulations to the convention through a video message.
Among the some 3,000 attendants to the opening ceremony were Chinese entrepreneurs from over 30 countries and regions around the world, Japanese local government officials, leaders of famed Japanese enterprises as well as Chinese personages in the science and cultural fields.
The convention is held at Kobe on Sept. 15-16 before it moves to Osaka on the 17th.
With a theme of harmony, the 9th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (WCEC) is aimed at promoting exchanges among global ethnic Chinese as well as those between Chinese and Japanese.
The logo of the biennial convention is to win with peace, harmony and cooperation and to benefit the world.
Japanese business circle are expecting a lot from the WCEC. Several famous Japanese corporations including Toyota Motor Corporation, All Nippon Airways Co. are the convention's sponsors.
The highlights of the convention include speeches by well-known entrepreneurs, discussions over economy, Asian city development, medical exchanges and other topics between Chinese and Japanese personalities.
This year is also the Chinese Year in Japan marked by a series of cultural, artistic and exchange programs in Japan. During the convention, presentations of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 Shanghai World Expo will be launched in Japan, together with a number of other cultural, sports and tourism programs.
"During the past two decades or so, I have witnessed China's growth together with other ethnic Chinese business persons," Francis Chua, former leader of Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry told Xinhua, "I hope ethnic Chinese around the world will work closer to contribute to the development of China."
The World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention has been successfully held in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Bangkok, Thailand, Vancouver, Canada, Melbourne, Australia, Nanjing, China, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Seoul, Republic of Korea since its birth in 1991, promoting local as well as regional and national economy of the host countries.
(1) South Australia delegates at the opening ceremony- Che Cockatoo Collins, Paul Vandenbergh, Mr TK Koh, Janet Chin , KW See, Mrs Koh, Alice Wang (2) Pic of mayor of Osaka (3) SA contingent with Huang Yaoting, chairman of the organizing committee of the Ninth World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (4) Jia Qinglin
Download 9th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention Quicktime News Video (10mb)
MATRADE Incoming Buying Mission Intrade Malaysia 2007
The Malaysian Trade Commission (MATRADE), an export promotion agency of the Government of Malaysia, will be organising INTRADE MALAYSIA 2007. This international exhibition will be held in Kuala Lumpur from 11-15 November 2007.
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The 9th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce invites you to the World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention to be held from the 15th to 17th of September this year.
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Essentials of Doing Business with China
On April 18, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce is holding a seminar on the "Essentials of Doing Business with China".
Download a brochure for details
Photos from the 150th Celebrations of the first Chinese Landing in Robe
2007 Chinese New Year Dinner - Year of the Golden Achievers
On February 25, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce will hold their 18th Chinese New Year Celebration Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Adelaide Grand Ballroom. Download an invitation for details
In the lunar year of 'The Golden Boar', the Chinese Chamber of Commerce South Australia has earmarked 2007 as the "Year of the Golden Achievers". In attendance will be Golden Achiever Mr Duncan Chessell who will speak of his recent conquest of Mt Vinson in Antarctica to a crowd of 280 guests.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce would like to extend an invitation to you to attend The Chinese New Year Dinner.
We look forward to your company on this very auspicious occasion.
150th Celebrations of the first Chinese Landing in Robe January 17th 2007
January 17 sees the celebrations of the first Chinese Landing in Robe, beginning with a procession down Mundy Terrace, Robe, led by Hoey Sang the Chinese Dragon to the
'Village Green' Robe Institute Hall and followed by an Official Welcome by Mayor and a Chinese Banquet.
The ceremony also includes the presentation of the Golden Trail: a 500km walk from Robe to Bendigo that follows the footsteps of the first Chinese Gold Miners to arrive in Roben and their journey as they set out for the Victorian Goldfields.
2006 International Energy Conference for Sustainable Asia
26-28 November, Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Conference Flyer
MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF EVER-ESCALATING
OIL PRICE & GEO-POLITICAL TENSION
Strategies & Measures will be identified and recommended by
international renowned speakers and panelists on Energy
Cooperation, Policies, Regulations, Viable Energy Sources,
Environment Preservation, Industrialists, Invention,
Research and Development.
Seminar on “Business Opportunities in Malaysia”
2 August 2006, Hyatt Regency Adelaide.
- Update on the Malaysia-Australia Free Trade Agreement (MAFTA)
- latest development in trade, investment policies and incentives in Malaysia
- Investment and joint venture opportunities in the manufacturing and services sector in Malaysia
- Bilateral trade opportunities between Malaysia & Australia
- Individual business meetings withmembers of the Malaysian Delegation
Downloads: Seminar Flyer.
New Business2Business Dinner
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce have pleasure in inviting you to be a
guest at a dinner with special guest speaker Geraldine Cox.
Geraldine started her career with the Australian Department of Foreign
Affairs in 1970. Her first posting was to Phnom Penh, where she
experienced life in a country at war when the Vietnam War spilled over into
Cambodia. Geraldine was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2000.
Date: Wednesday 21 June 2006
Time: 6.15pm for 6.30pm dinner
Cost: $55.00 per person - (10 course banquet with soft drink included)
Venue: Ming’s Palace, 157 Gouger Street Adelaide SA 5000
Dresscode: Smart casual
RSVP: 08 8410 5838
office@chinesechamber.com.au
Downloads: invitation and membership form.
Chinese New Year Gallery
On 5th Feb 2006, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce South Australia celebrated the Chinese New Year at Marble Hall, with the event sponsored by Sky City Adelaide and ANZ Bank.
The event included entertainers Mr Robert Mak and Ms Wei Wong (former Miss Asia). In attendance were Mr Michael Siberling (General Manager, SkyCity), Mr Claude Piscioneri (General Manager, ANZ Bank), Lord Mayor Michael Harbison and Lady Mayoress Kathy Harbison, Minister Paul Halloway, Professor Alfred Huang, Immediate Past President Bernard Khut, and Past President Simon Koh. CCCSA wishes to extend its appreciation to Mr Kok See Wah, Major Event Organiser and Vice President, for his efforts at co-ordinating such a wonderful evening.
Chinese New Year 2006 Dinner - 5th Feb 2006
Chinese Chamber of Commerce South Australia
is celebrating this year's Chinese New Year
at Marble Hall, Sky City Adelaide. Proudly sponsored
by Sky
City Adelaide and ANZ
Bank. Download PDF poster.
The 8th World Chinese Enterpreneurs Convention (WCEC) Seoul, Korea 9-12 Oct 2005
The World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention as
an "Economic Olympic" is held every
two years to bring together overseas Chinese
entrepreneurs to enhance economic co-operation
and promote better understanding among each
other and business communities worldwide. The
Convention focuses on economic and cultural
issues pertaining to Chinese entrepreneurship. More on WCECKorea.org
