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Businesses can improve links with China

By Becky Barnes
September 10, 2012

Businesses looking to form relationships with Chinese firms are being offered the chance to meet more than 100 delegates at a UK-China matchmaking event.

Bracknell Forest Council is working with LinkToChina to offer firms the opportunity to meet on Monday, September 17 and Tuesday, September 18.

Councillor Marc Brunel-Walker, executive member for economic development and regeneration, said: “For companies looking to form relationships with Chinese businesses, this is an event not to be missed.

“The line-up of delegates so far is very impressive, and only 25 per cent of the party has been to the UK before, so this really is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for businesses to get involved, make a good impression and form long-term relationships.”

Sixty businesses from around the Thames Valley have already signed up to meet more than 100 delegates from the Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Hunan, Shaanxi, Jilin and Qingdao provinces.

The first day will feature a conference at the Copthorne Hotel in Slough, and will include presentations from key note speakers including Minister Counsellor Zhou Xiaoming of the Chinese Embassy followed by an awards reception and dinner.

On day two, businesses are invited to meet the Chinese delegation at a Bracknell Forest Council hosted event at Ascot Racecourse.

This will provide the chance to talk face-to-face with Chinese entrepreneurs.

For further information, and to get involved, visit: linktochina.org/events/uk-china-business-conference-2012/.

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Stig2... It's well known that the huge number of transfer flights that pass through Heathrow have no impact on our economy. These transient passengers are not at Heathrow to do business with the UK and the only benefit this brings is to Spanish-owned BAA who gain some custom in their terminal shops and the runway slot fee.

If the fact that we have limited flights to China and to emerging economies like Brazil was of real concern to BAA then surely the massive numbers of transfer and internal (national) flights would be reviewed, but this is not the case. Can you explain why?

The growth of the City, far and away the main driver of our economy, does not seem to have been fettered by it's location in the East of London, far from Heathrow, and is serviced mainly by the small City Airport which brings in genuine business passengers. Perhaps you can explain?

28% of the people in Europe affected by aircraft noise live under the Heathrow flight path, and with most other cities choosing to locate their airports by the sea or in sparsely populated areas, it's easy to see why such huge numbers suffer here. Your proposing that suffering an airport twice the capacity of Heathrow, with all the well documented associated detrimental impacts on physical and mental wellbeing, is a price worth paying?

cbbb, Camberley
13/09/2012 at 12:07

cbbb.... China have enormous funds at their disposal and any Govt may wish to accept money to build a new airport.. China see the objections to having another runway at HTR as an opportunity to build a 4 runway London airport so they can be major part of the international business scene. Clearly, HTR would be shut down eventually losing all the jobs and businesses (M4 corridor) that go with it. So my point is that there are other published proposals to build the new 4 runway London airport in the Thames Estuary taking all the jobs and M4 businesses with it. There will be a lot of people out of work in this area so suggest that we all think carefully what we wish for.

Stig2, Wokingham
13/09/2012 at 11:17

Not quite sure what you're suggesting Stig2. Are you saying that the only way to curry favour with the Chinese is by building the busiest airport in the world on top of us and destroying any shred of quality in our lives?

I'd rather build links elsewhere and perhaps have business suffer slightly than have a situation where our children can't hear the teacher speaking as every 15 seconds a huge Boeing 777 thunders just a couple of hundred feet overhead and our window for sleep starts at midnight and abruptly end at 4.30am - that's assuming the new airport is prepared to follow Heathrow's current night restrictions.

I'm not good with 4.5hrs sleep - are you?

cbbb, Camberley
13/09/2012 at 10:31

How about improving links with your own business community, and more pertinently your own electorate?

It's all gone quiet on the regeneration front for a while - we'll soon here some blathering nonsense designed to fool the good citizenry of Bracknell.

You're only fooling yourselves Marc.

Maybe get acquainted with the idea of forging links with Bracknell Jobcentre plus come the next election.

Maddie V, Bracknell
11/09/2012 at 20:20

You are on a sticky wicket Marc if you want long term relationships with China. The chinese consortium driving the new 4 runway London airport will not see bracknell etc in their long term view if they cannot have the new berkshire airport or extend HTR. Instead a long term view will be to talk to the Cllrs in North Kent (Cliffe) where there is another proposal to site the new 4 runway london airport. A new airport will mean shutting HTR in the medium term.