On the night of Dec 8th, 2007 IBI New Year Reception was held at Noble Club, which is a beautiful traditional Chinese club right beside the Temple of Earth. Counsellor of Embassy of Switzerland, Mr. Beat Burgi, Counsellor of Embassy of Belgium, Mr. Gerard Seghers, Chief Representative of Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industy, Mr.
Vladimir Padalko, Director of the Board of SwissCham, Mr. Denis Shmid and his wife together with other 40 guests from foreign embassies and chambers of commerce of 17 countries or districts, such as Australia, Belgium, EU, Germany, Israel, Russia, Spanish, Switzerland, UK etc., attended the reception.
The reception was hosted by Mr. Han Litao, vice president of IBI, and started by a warm welcome speech delivered by Mr. Tu Xingjian, Chairman of the Board of IBI. Mr. Tu reviewed investment promotion events IBI has successfully conducted over the last year, such as, site-research at counties and districts of Beijing, business networking parties and international forums, etc.
Chairman Tu said that the success of all these events is mainly due to the support and assistance from IBI partners all over the world, and he would like to express gratitude on behalf of IBI to all of them. IBI will carry on providing useful information and assistance to all foreign embassies and chambers of commerce, in order to enhance trade and economic cooperation, and to share with foreign enterprises the opportunities attribute to market prosperity and the Olympic economy.
IBI Vice President Han LiTao was hosting the New Year Reception
IBI Chairman of the Board Tu XingJian was giving welcome speech
Mr. Denis Schmid, director of the board and secretary general of Swiss Chinese Chamber of Commerce, also gave a speech for the reception. According to Mr. Schmid s speech, there are approximately 300 Swiss compnies with around 700 branches curretly registered in China. And the strategic market China owned is the motive for Swiss companies to invest in China. In light of increasingly economic and trade exchanges between Switzerland and China, SwissCham will keep close cooperation with IBI in the new year.
Mr. Denis Schmid,
Director of the Board and Secretary General of Swiss Chinese Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Gerard Seghers
Economic & Commercial Counsellor, Embassy of Belgium Trade Commission
Mr. Song XiaoHai
Vice President, Hongkong SBT Group
Hong Kong SBT Group, as a emerging enterprise that has developed successfully in China under the support and assistance of IBI, has shared their experience on investment and market exploitation with all attendees by Mr. Song Xiaohai, vice president of the group.
Mr. Tu and Mr. Han were chatting with Mr. Seghers.
Mr. and Ms. Schmit were talking with delegates from HK SBT Group
At last, Chairman Tu hosted an appreciation dinner for all the guests. New friends and old buddies from China and other counties were sitting together, looking back the past year and anticipating the coming one.
