The 10th EU—China Business and Technology Cooperation Fair
China Tour 2015
Qingdao-Chengdu-Mianyang, 4-12 November 2015
Host Cities
 Qingdao: China’s Beer City
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Qingdao at a glance
Location: a major port city in eastern Shandong Province.On the coast of the Yellow Sea, Qingdao lies on the west coast of Pacific
Ocean and at the southern tip of Shandong Peninsula of north China and faces Korea and Japan across the sea in the east.
Population: 8.964 million(2014)
Area: 11,282 square kilometers
Administrative Divisions: 6 districts and 4 county-level cities
GDP (2013): EUR 108.2 billion; 16.5% is maritime economy: EUR 17.8billion
Import & Export(2013):EUR 65.5 billion (USD78 Billion)
6 Key Industries:Logistics, shipbuilding and maritime engineering, home appliances and electronics, automobiles and railway
engines,petrochemicals, and machinery and equipment
10 Emerging Industries: new materials,
environmental protection , aviation economics, tourism equipment, maritime biological
medicine manufacturing industry, industrial robots, maritime equipment, seawater desalination industry, maritime energy and 3D printing
technology.
PROFILE
Qingdao is one of China's first coastal open cities. It has established sister-city relations or friendly cooperative relations with 63 cities in
foreign countries. More than 2,000 overseas trading firms, companies and financial institutions have set up permanent offices in Qingdao.
A total of 111 companies on the Fortune Global 500 List have invested in 219 projects in Qingdao.
Qingdao is a regional economic centre, an important international trading port as well as a maritime transport hub in China. It is one of
China's top five ports for foreign trade. In 2013, the city's GDP totalled 800.66 billion yuan; the public fiscal budget revenue was 78.87
billion yuan. The Port of Qingdao has built trade relationship with more than 700 ports worldwide. In 2013, the port handled 455 million
tons of cargo and 15.52 million TEUs. Its total throughput ranked the 7th in the world and its throughput of crude oil ranked the 1st in
China. Qingdao's Airport runs 110 international and domestic routes. In 2013, it handled 14.52 million passengers, and 186,000 tons of
cargo and mail.
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Qingdao is a famous maritime science city and a leading city in China's Blue Economy. The city is home to 70% of China's academicians
and 30% of senior researchers in maritime science and technology. Research institutions in Qingdao are responsible for 55% of maritime
research subjects under the National "863" Program and 90% of maritime research subjects under the National "973" Program. The five
major waves of development of ocean-farming all started in Qingdao. In January 2011, the Development Plan of the Blue Economic Zone
of Shandong Peninsula was approved. Qingdao has since become a leading city in the core area of this zone. By 2015, Qingdao will have
established a pilot zone of blue economy, a cluster of independent maritime research and development, a cluster of hi-tech industries and
a demonstration area of the protection of maritime ecological environment.
 Chengdu: The World's Fastest-Growing City
Chengdu at a glance
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Population(2014): Sub-provincial city14,047,625. Urban 7,415,590,
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GDP(2015): USD163.7 billion(RMB1006 billion) - The highest in Western China
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GDP growth(2014): 8.9%
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Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province. It was established officially in 311 BC and has a history that stretches
back over 3000 years. It is the fifth most populous city in China.
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The climate of the city is monsoon influenced and subtropical, with mild winters but moderate summers. It is much
cooler than the climate of its neighbour in Chongqing. Annual precipitation is around 997mm and there are an
average of 1,073 sunshine hours per year.
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The city is served by Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport the 5th busiest airport in China. It is one
of only four airports in China with 2 commercial runways.
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Foreign Trade Volume in 2014 was USD 55.85 billion, up 10.4% on 2013. UNESCO designated it as a
Creative City in 2010. Forbes, Fortune and the World Bank listed Chengdu as one of “The Next Decade’s Fastest
Growing Cities Globally”, “The World’s Best Emerging Business Cities” and the “Benchmark City for Investment
Environment in Inland China” respectively.
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In the first four months of 2015, Chengdu received USD 1.2 billion in contracted foreign investment,
an increase of 150% on the same period in 2014. 136 new major projects have been signed for during
Jan-May 2015. In 2014, 60 Sichuan-based companies invested in overseas projects. The total investment was USD
1.35 billion with an increase of 178% on 2013.
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The Chengdu plain is famous for being fertile, and has its own irrigation system dating back thousands of years. It
is one of the major agricultural production bases in China. Grain, including rice and wheat, is the major product,
but the area also produces commercial cash crops include rapeseed, citrus fruits, peaches, sugar cane and sweet
potatoes, as well as pork and raw silk.
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The area surrounding the city is also rich in mineral resources, with deposits of coal, petroleum, natural gas,
salt and iron ore. Sichuan province also has more than 132 mineral resources including vanadium,
titanium, lithium and cobalt.
Key Industries
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Pharmaceuticals
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Food Processing
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Automotive, Aerospace, Metallurgy
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Finance
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ICT
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Retail
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Petrochemical
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Tourism
The city’s service sector already accounts for 50% of the economy and is predicted to grow to 60% within the next 10 years.
Tourism is growing particularly quickly, as Chengdu was named a CED (World Centre of Excellence for Destinations) city in
2010. It has enjoyed visits from top ranking officials such as David Cameron, Angela Merkel and Michelle Obama in the last
five years.
High-tech industries such as integrated circuit design and software development should continue to be attracted by good
local R&D and educational facilities. The strengthening of rail and air logistics will strengthen Chengdu’s position as the
vanguard of Southwest China. However, most growth will be in the service industries and ICT rather than Chengdu’s more
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traditional sectors of aerospace and pharmaceuticals.
Chengdu State Council has introduced a number of incentives to:
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Provide financial support to companies in obtaining international standards certifications and engage in brand
promotion overseas
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Promote international service outsourcing business
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Afford and arrange tax reductions and exemptions
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Provide financial support to service outsourcing enterprises in talent training
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Provide political and financial support for the global and domestic service outsourcing top 100 enterprises in their
rent, taxes, staff training, and land management issues
Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone (CDHT) has issued a number of preferential policies, including:
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Development of a financial back-office service centre
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Subsidies for developing building resource economy strategies. Subsidies of up to USD 800,000 are available for
owners of speciality office buildings, companies with improved property management and companies with
self-sustained business models
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An annual fund of USD 161.3 million for technological innovation. This covers a range of areas, including improving
technological innovation services, improving enterprises’ innovation ability, promoting commercialization of
research findings, encouraging innovation and start-up and facilitating the construction of a world-class hi-tech park
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Subsidies for Mobile Internet Companies looking to operate inside CDHT. This includes exemption of rent in some
cases, and subsidies for management and technical employees
Chengdu Tianfu Software Park also provides tenants and their employees with some preferential policies, including
subsidies, tax reductions and exemptions, special support and provision of venture capital. This is aimed at supporting
companies to make innovative technology and start new businesses.
Top 5 reasons to do business in Chengdu
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Chengdu is China's western centre of logistics, commerce, finance, science and technology. It is also an important
hub for transportation, communication, manufacturing and agriculture.
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The total volume of imports and exports of the Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone (CHDT) ranked third
in the country and first in central and western China. The Chengdu Tianfu Software Park, based in CHDT, is Asia's
largest specialized business IT park and one of China's 10 national software industry bases
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The city has a long history of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Over 6,000 medical equipment and
pharmaceutical companies are registered here. Chengdu is one of China's pharmaceutical hubs
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There are over 265 Fortune 500 companies with business in Chengdu. Prominent foreign investors include: Intel,
BMW, HP, Sony, Nokia, Canon, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Alcatel, Toyota and Unilever. The 12th Fortune Global
Forum was held in Chengdu in June 2013.
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Chengdu has an excellent telecommunications infrastructure. As of 2013, there were 3.75 million fixed line users,
21.36 million mobile phone users, and 2.68 million people with broadband access.
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 Mianyang: Western Silicon Valley of China
By the reputation of Western Silicon Valley, it has been listed into Top 100 Best Commercial Cities in the Chinese mainland by the Forbes.
Location: northwest of Sichuan Province, 90 kilometers away from the capital city Chengdu
Population: 5.30 million
Area: 20,249 square kilometers
Administrative Divisions: 1 county-level city, 6 counties and 2 urban districts
GDP (2014):EUR22.2 Billion (RMB158 Billion)
Import & Export(2014): USD2.9 Billion
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Mianyang is the second largest city in Sichuan provincea. It is China’s sole city of science and technology. It is a central city in the
northwest of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone (China’s regional development plan). The city has won “The Best Human Settlement
Exemplification Prize in the United Nations”, “National Environment Protection Model City”, “National Garden City” and “National
Recognized Clean City” consecutively.
Mianyang is a key research and manufacturing center for the defense and electronics industries in China. Mianyang enjoys the reputation
as the "Silicon Valley in Western China" and "Smart City". Mianyang was selected by the State Council among the first group of national
pilot cities for promoting the integration of finance and technologies as well as among the first group of national pilot cities to adopt a
single data cable servicing Internet, telephone and television.
Mianyang’s history is more than 2,200 years and it is the home to Li Bai, the renowned great Chinese romanticism poet.
Resources
As the key city supported by the Western Development, Construction of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone and other national strategies,
the coordination team of construction department composed of 18 national ministries and commissions has been set up to implement the
Through-Train system for the project city. The administration authori-ty of 19 provincial-level economic has been granted by the project
of city of science and technology.
Mianyang is of rich scientific and technological resources, including 18 national scientific institutes, 26 academicians from Chinese
Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, and 202000 professional and technical personnel; the built innovation center
of city of science and technology; industri-al technology research institute and achievement transformation platform. The talent resources
of science and technology and innovation capability are ranking the front place among the same kind of cities in China. And the numbers
of patent application and patent granted are in the 5th place. For the 17 important scientifically special projects imple-mented by the
nation, 3 projects are owned by Mianyang.
Location Advantages
As the regionally central city con-necting Sichuan, Shaanxi and Guansu, Mianyang is of the complete customs, inspection and quarantine
institutes, built secondary railway and harbor, public bonded warehouse and container freight station and the sole export processing zone
in the prefectural-level cities in the West.
The traffic arteries such as Bao-ji-Chengdu Railway,Chengdu-Mi-anyang Expressway, complex line of Chengdu-Mianyang Expressway,
Mi-anyang-Suining Expressway are going through the city. Moreover, the air-lines direct to 16 main cities, such as Beijing,
Shanghai ,Guangzhou and oth-er cities has been available in Mianyang Airport, about 70 shifts weekly. At present, the construction of 4
railways and 5 expressways is in progress, in-cludingtheinter-citypassenger high-speed rail from Chengdu-Mi-anyang-Leshan to be
pre-commis-sioned. The construction of passenger high-speed rail from Chengdu-Mi-anyang has also been commenced. Af-ter the
completion, only one half of an hour and 2hr are spent from Mianyang to Chengdu and Xi'an.
Key Industries
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electronic information
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The portion of Mianyang electronic information industry is about one third of Sichuan Province. The military electronics industry, leading
in the domestic market is the con-centrated are of Sichuan electronic information industry and the core part supported majorly and
developed by the national policy. Now, famous enterprises,such as Changhong Group, Jiuzhou Group, and Emerson Network Power have
been settled down. The areas of intelligent televi-sion, telecommunication equipment, and matched facility of large aircraft are covered by
the products.
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automobile and spare part industry
The perfect automobile industry chain has been formed in Mainyang, involving the manufacturing capability of finished automobile,
production and manufacturing capability of key part and spare part, the capability of supplyingvanadium-titaniumand steel material,
casting the automobile part and machine process. Now, more than 30 enterprises concerning finished automobile and spare part
manufacturing have been in operation in Mianyang,forexample,SINOTRUK, Brilliance Automobile, and new energy vehicle.
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renewable energy, new materials
Based on the strong advantage of scientific research, the levels of sci-ntific research and production tech-nology in terms of special high
poly-mer material, magnetic material, ul-trahard material, ultramicro material and others are leading in the domestic. Now, the product
chains of high polymer material dominated with in-sulating material, magnetic material lead by ferrite magnets and rare earth magnets
and the new energy product dominated by distributed energy product, solar lighting product, vanadium cell, lithium ion battery and other
battery material have been formed.
AGENDA
Qingdao, 4—6 November 2015
Venue:Qingdao Shangri-La Hotel
WED, 4 Nov
0900—1800
1700—1800
1830—2000
Registration
VIP Meeting
Gala Dinner
THU, 5 Nov
0900—0925
0930—0955
1000—1200
1200—1400
1400—1730
1830—2000
VIP Meeting
Opening Ceremony
EU—China Business & Technology Cooperation Forum
Lunch Break
Session 1: EU—China Maritime Research and Industry Cooperation Seminar
Session 2: EU—China High—end Machinery Industry Cooperation Seminar
Session 3: EU—China New Energy and Environment Protection Seminar
Dinner Buffet
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FRI, 6 Nov
0930—1200
1200—1400
1400—1700
B2B Matchmaking
Cluster/Company Visit
Lunch Break
B2B Matchmaking
Cluster/Company Visit
(optional)
(optional)
Chengdu, 8—12 November 2015
Venue: Chengdu Century City New International Convention & Exhibition Center
SUN, 8 Nov
0900—1800
1830—1900
1900—2030
Registration
Training by SME Centre, IPR helpdesk and EUCCC
Cocktail
MON, 9 Nov
0900—0925
0930—1000
1015—1200
1200—1400
1400—1730
1830—2000
VIP Group Meeting
Opening Ceremony
EU—China Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum
Lunch
Session 1: Roundtable on Cooperation between West China and CEEC's Business Associations
Session 2: EU—China Cleantech Seminar
Session 3: EU—China Modern Agriculture Seminar
Session 4: EU—China Cluster Cooperation Seminar
Gala Dinner
TUE, 10 Nov
0930—1200
1200—1400
1400—1600
1400—1730
B2B Matchmaking
Lunch
Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) Global Partners Conference
B2B Matchmaking
WED, 11 Nov
Depart to Mianyang City (1h drive)
Event in Mianyang (details to be updated)
Back to Chengdu
THU, 12 Nov
0900—1200
Cluster/Company Visit
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1200—1700
Panda Base and City Tour
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