The Wuxi Municipal Government of China invite you to participate in a business briefing, focusing on business opportunities for Irish and Chinese companies.
This forum will enhance understanding for both Chinese and Irish enterprises and improve the development of software and service outsourcing and high-tech industry for both countries. If your business is clean energy, environmental tech, software or IT or if you are looking for a low cost city with high living standard, this event is for you.
Date: Thursday 22nd October 2009
Times: 3.00pm - 5.00pm
Venue: Berkeley hotel, Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
For further information on the event please (including full Agenda) please click here.
Wuxi Vital Statistics:
· Dubbed “Little-Shanghai” Wuxi is located in the center of China's most prosperous Yangtze River Delta with about 1.5-hour and 2-hour driving distance from Shanghai and Nanjing respectively.
· Area: 4788 km2 Population: 4.58M Administrative Regions: 2 county-level cities—Jiangyin and Yixing, plus 7 districts—Xishan, Huishan, Binhu, New District, Chong’an, Nanchang and Beirang Climate: A subtropical monsoon maritime climate featuring four distinct seasons, abundant rainfall and mild temperature
· Designated an investment grade city, and has two large industrial parks devoted to new industry. While currentmanufacturing centers on textiles, there are projects to move to electric motor manufacturing and software development sector, Outsourcing-ITO, BPO, and most recently there is a movement toward the solar city of China with two big solar companies (STP and JHL) listed on overseas board
· A major push has been made by the Wuxi government to become a leader in new energy industries. In 2008 new energy industries were worth 37.8 Billion RMB, with the solar photovoltaic industry accounting for 30.2 Billion RMB of the total
· The GDP per capita was ¥73,053 (ca. US$10,689) in 2008, ranked no.2 in Jiangsu Province, less than Suzhou but more than the capital city Nanjing.n Forbes ranked Wuxi 3rd for best business cities in Mainland China in 2008
· The Wuxi Municipal Government actively promotes inward investments, encourages Wuxi companies to explore investment possibilities in Ireland.
For further details contact:
Enterprise Europe Network Executive
Marion@dublinchamber.ie