The Burnaby Board of Trade is pouring it on with events! I think they have four or five lined up for this week alone. This morning I attended a breakfast sponsored by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Mr. Stephen Wong, HKTDC Regional Director for the Americas, presented an informative session on Hong Kong – Canada’s Business Link with China. I was invited on the basis of my interest in Asia-Pacific business and my background in journalism in Japan.
Mr. Wong made an impressive case for why Canadian businesses would do well to partner with Hong Kong companies when looking at the Chinese market, ranging from a familiar legal system based on British common law, to an ideal geographical location with excellent transportation links. He spoke of Hong Kong's "four freedoms": free flow of money, free flow of products, free flow of people, and free flow of information. He said the HKTDC is the largest organizer of trade fairs in the world, located in the city with the world's busiest air cargo terminal.
Posted by Paul at March 4, 2009 10:40 AM