Newsletter_Aout_Sept_2011

ÉVÉNEMENTS À VENIR / EVENTS TO COME
EARLY BIRD DEADLINE, September 30th! Offered to all HKCBA Members
Team HKCBA Delegation to the 12th Hong Kong Forum
-- November 28th to December 2nd in Hong Kong –
Early Bird Discount: HKD$560 for registration by September 30th, 2011
Regular Fee: HKD$800 per person
OFFRE SPÉCIALE jusqu'au 30 Septembre! Offert à tous les membres
ACHKC
Joignez la délégation de l'ACHKC au 12ième Forum de Hong Kong
-- Du 28 novembre au 2 décembre à Hong Kong –
Prix réduit: HKD$560 pour les inscriptions avant le 30 septembre 2011
Prix régulier: HKD$800 par personne
Delegation Programme / Schedule of Activities:
November 28th – HKCBA National Board Meeting &
HKCBA "Hong Kong Family" Dinner
Nov 29th & 30th– The 12th Hong Kong Forum
Dec 1st & 2nd – Optional Side-trip to PRD Huizhou & Shenzhen
(Company Visits & Sr. Govn’t Officials Meetings)
Dec 1st to 3rd – HKTDC World SME Expo 2011
Other concurrent related activities in Hong Kong:
November 23rd to 26th – Canadian Supply Chain & Logistics
Mission (Asian Logistics & Maritime Conference on Nov 25th)
December 1st to 3rd - World SME Expo 2011 - Complimentary to
all HKCBA members - visit the Canadian Pavillion!
December 2nd - Business of IP Asia Forum (to promote HK as the
regional IP marketplace)
Just to name a few speakers at this Forum…
The Hon Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of HKSAR Government;
Ms. Margaret Leung, Vice-Chairman & Chief Executive of Hang Seng Bank;
Mr. Adrian Cheng, Executive Director of New World Development (invited);
Mr. John Slosar, Chief Executive Officer of Cathay Pacific (invited)
Our Official Airline - Cathay Pacific is offering special discount to all HKCBA Hong
Kong Forum delegates on both Business and Economy Class Fares to Hong
Kong (from Vancouver or Toronto)!
NOUVELLES AUX MEMBRES / NEWS TO MEMBERS
Mission économique : Charest bien écouté en Chine
Article de l'agence QMI, Jules Richer
2 septembre 2011
Jean Charest, le premier ministre globe-trotter, a terminé vendredi, à Shanghai, en
Chine, une autre de ses missions économiques à l’étranger. Le bilan concret a été
mince, mais M. Charest a été reçu par des officiels de haut niveau importants.
À son avis, le Québec n’a pas le choix : la Chine est incontournable sur le nouvel
échiquier mondial. La population du pays est si importante et son économie croît à un
tel rythme qu’il est impossible de l’ignorer.
« Plus on avance dans le temps et plus ça nous rappelle qu’un pays responsable et
qu’une province responsable doivent planifier leur économie en fonction de ce qui se
passe en Chine. Si on fait pas ça, on passe à côté de quelque chose de très important,
parce que la Chine va avoir une influence dans nos vies, qu’on le veuille ou non », a
souligné M. Charest en faisant le bilan de sa mission économique.
Les experts croient que, d’ici 10 à 20 ans, la Chine pourrait dépasser les États-Unis
comme économie numéro un mondiale.
Cette mission a été l’une des plus longues que M. Charest ait accomplie. Elle a duré 10
jours et elle comportait des arrêts à Tokyo, Kyoto, Pékin, Jinan et Shanghai. M. Charest
a été reçu par les ministres des Affaires étrangères du Japon et de la Chine, ainsi que
par plusieurs officiels importants, dont le gouverneur de la province chinoise de
Shandong, avec qui le Québec est jumelé.
Pour plus d’information visitez le:
http://argent.canoe.ca/lca/affaires/quebec/archives/2011/09/20110902-081833.html
Mission économique en Chine
Neuf entreprises québécoises s'entendent avec leurs partenaires
chinois
Communiqué de Presse, Site du Premier Ministre, Gouvernement du Québec
Beijing, mercredi le 30 août 2011
Le premier ministre du Québec, Jean Charest, accompagné du ministre du
Développement économique, de l’Innovation et de l’Exportation, Clément Gignac, et de
la ministre des Relations internationales, Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, a été témoin de
signatures d’ententes et d’annonces de partenariats entre neuf entreprises québécoises
et leurs partenaires chinois.
...
Birks
L’entreprise Birks annonce qu’elle a constitué une filiale à Hong Kong. Il s’agit
d’un premier pas vers l’établissement d’un réseau de boutiques dans plusieurs villes de
Chine. Cette décision de Birks, entreprise québécoise centenaire, témoigne de
l’importance grandissante de la Chine comme marché de consommation pour les biens
haut de gamme. La constitution de cette filiale contribuera à l’augmentation de la
fabrication et de l’exportation de bijoux du Québec.
...
Pour plus d’information visitez le:
http://www.premier-ministre.gouv.qc.ca/actualites/communiques/2011/aout/2011-08-30.asp
Mr Clément Gignac guest of the CanCham in Hong Kong
The Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade of Québec, Mr
Clément Gignac, made his first official visit to Hong Kong to further develop relations
between Québec and the government and business community of Hong Kong. During a
luncheon on September 5 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Minister Gignac spoke about
Quebec’s economy and presented the Plan Nord, one of the biggest economic, social
and environmental projects for decades.
China’s RMB Centre
Article from Hong Kong Trader, 31 Aug. 2011
Beijing has unveiled a raft of new economic measures to boost Hong Kong’s status as
an international financial centre, and help Hong Kong companies gain a stronger
foothold into the Chinese mainland market. The mainland’s Vice Premier of the State
Council Li Keqiang announced the latest Central Government initiatives during a visit to
Hong Kong earlier this month.
Mr Li said it was in the interests of all concerned that Hong Kong continue “to bring out
the unique advantages it has developed over the years and play its irreplaceable role in
the mainland’s reform, opening-up and modernisation drive.”
The new initiatives will further open up the mainland market to Hong Kong’s services
industry. It will also upgrade Hong Kong’s standing as an international financial capital,
expanding Hong Kong’s role as an offshore renminbi centre.
For more information please visit:
http://www.hktdc.com/info/web/mi/article.htm?
LANGUAGE=en&ARTICLE_ID=1X07KWC0&DATASOURCE=hkti
The Prospect of Mature Canada-China Trade Relations
Essay by Michael Hart, for the Canadian International Council, August 2011
Michael Hart holds the Simon Reisman chair in trade policy at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at
Carleton University in Ottawa, where he teaches courses on the laws and institutions of international trade as well as
Canadian foreign policy.
Foreign Minister John Baird vowed, during his July 16-20 trip to China, to build closer
and deeper ties with China. Good for him. There is much to be gained and little to lose
from pursuing a mature relationship with China – one that accepts China’s growing
importance as a major player on the world stage. A mature relationship should also lead
to more realistic expectations about Canada’s role and influence in China. While
ministerial trips are useful ways to build better political relations, economic ties flow from
the myriad other mundane decisions by consumers, investors, and traders. On that
count, prospects are bullish.
With a population of more than 1.3 billion and a rapidly growing economy, China
deserves credit for the progress it has made over the last 30 years. Sometime in the
next few decades, it will surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy. It is
already the world’s leading exporter and trails only the United States as an importer. It is
now twice as dependent on international trade as the comparably sized U.S., Japanese,
and EU economies. On a bilateral basis, China is now Canada’s second-largest trading
partner; two-way trade reached $57.7 billion last year.
For more information please visit:
http://www.opencanada.org/features/the-prospect-of-mature-canada-china-traderelations/
Investment Magnet
Article from Hong Kong Trader, August 17 th 2011
Despite a population of just 7.1 million, Hong Kong was the world’s third-largest
recipient of foreign direct investment, at US$76 billion in 2010 – a leap from US$52
billion in 2009. Hong Kong has bypassed the United Kingdom, which fell from third
place to seventh. The figures are contained in the 2011 World Investment Report,
published by the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
For the 12th consecutive year, Hong Kong is Asia’s second-largest recipient of direct
foreign investment, just behind the Chinese mainland and far ahead of Singapore, at
US$39 billion. Hong Kong-based businesses have also made the city the world’s fifthlargest overseas investor, after the United States, France, Japan and Germany, at
US$76 billion in 2010, ahead of the mainland, at US$68 billion. The city’s total stock of
inward direct investment was estimated at US$931 billion at the end of 2009, according
to UNCTAD, corresponding to 4.4 times its GDP that year.
For more information please visit:
http://www.hktdc.com/info/web/mi/article.htm?
LANGUAGE=en&ARTICLE_ID=1X07K5L0&DATASOURCE=hkti
Effusive John Baird wraps up China visit with praise for ‘strategic
partner’
Article by Cambell Clark
Ottawa, Globe and Mail Update, Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2011
John Baird is hailing a “new era” in relations with Beijing, saying there will be “honest
differences of opinion” with China on human rights but relations on trade and other
issues will move forward.
The Foreign Affairs Minister could not have gone further to signal that the chilly days of
the relationship between Ottawa and Beijing that marked the early days of the Harper
government are now gone.
The phrases Mr. Baird has used to describe his hosts in his three-day trip to China have
been effusive. He called China a friend and an ally, and asserted the two countries have
a “strategic partnership” – a phrase revived from the days of Liberal rule, when Ottawa
expressed a desire for deeper, broad-based ties.
For more information please visit:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/effusive-john-baird-wraps-upchina-visit-with-praise-for-strategic-partner/article2103353/
Arbiter of Mediation
Article from Hong Kong Trader, August 3rd 2011
London-based international law firm Ashurst set up a dispute resolution practice in Hong
Kong, to supplement its existing presence in Singapore, partly in response to rising
demand for arbitration services in the region. This growing appetite for arbitration is
likely to be further stimulated by Hong Kong's new legislation, which further strengthens
Hong Kong’s arbitration system and keeps it at the forefront of international practice.
The Arbitration Ordinance, which took effect in June, removes the distinction between
domestic and international arbitrations in Hong Kong. It also limits the power of Hong
Kong’s court system to intervene in arbitration, gives the parties greater autonomy,
particularly in domestic cases, and crucially, it codifies the obligation to keep information
in arbitration cases confidential, along with the awards made to either party.
“The law resolves a lot of uncertainties and complications that previously existed
between the domestic and international regimes,” said Gareth Hughes, who heads
Ashurst’s Hong Kong disputes team. “When choosing the seat of the arbitration, parties
want to know what the underlying law is and that the courts will support the process.
The new law provides additional comfort to the parties that Hong Kong ticks all of the
right boxes,” he said.
For more information please visit:
http://www.hktdc.com/info/web/mi/article.htm?
LANGUAGE=en&ARTICLE_ID=1X07JE2S&DATASOURCE=hkti
Branding on the Mainland
Article from Hong Kong Trader, July 27th 2011
Alex Lau, Manager of the Intellectual Property Centre at the Federation of Hong Kong
Industries, is an IP advisor to the Hong Kong Trade and Industries Department. He
recently spoke at a China Business Workshop, organised by the Hong Kong Trade
Development Council, and answered the following 6 questions on how to brand on the
Chinese mainland.
What are the first steps for an enterprise that wants to set up on the Chinese
mainland?
When does trademark ownership take effect on the mainland?
What are some of the little-known details businesses should be aware of when
registering a trademark on the mainland?
What are some of the pitfalls?
What specific advice do you have for would-be franchisers and licensors?
Are there any other unique rules specific to trademark registration?
Please visit the following to have all the answers:
http://www.hktdc.com/info/mi/a/hkti/en/1X07J3M5/1/Hong-Kong-Trader-InternationalEdition/Branding-On-The-Mainland.htm
China’s Regional Boost
Article from Hong Kong Trader, July 2011
Spurred by galloping production of electronics goods in the Chinese mainland’s coastal
regions – the traditional engine of mainland manufacturing over the past three decades
– demand has grown for electronics production in the country’s central and western
regions, forming new manufacturing and supply clusters.
The trend is expected to accelerate as development of the inner regions kicks off under
the 12th Five-Year Programme (FYP). The FYP sets out to improve the inland region’s
investment environment, through policy support,enhanced infrastructure, and by helping
relocate supply chains inland. The moves are expected to draw foreign electronics
investment from the coastal regions and overseas to the mainland’s inland region,
where there’s an abundant supply of workers and technical personnel. The goal is to
wean investors away from the coastal regions where labour shortages have become
dire. The upside is that there are new domestic markets to explore and skilled workers
are available.
Chengdu, Chongqing and Xian, as well as the central provinces of Hubei and Hunan,
make up the western regional triangle representing models for the gathering trend.
For more information please visit:
http://www.hktdc.com/info/mi/a/hkti/en/1X07IJ2D/1/Hong-Kong-Trader-InternationalEdition/China-S-Regional-Boost.htm
A ÊTRE ENTENDU / TO BE HEARD
L'influence de la Chine sur l'Économie mondiale selon Loïc Tassé, politologue et
spécialiste de l'Asie invité de l'émission Dutrizac au 98,5FM.
Pour écouter l'entrevue, visitez le:
http://www.985fm.ca/audioplayer.php?mp3=108518
FOIRES & MISSIONS COMMERCIALES/ FAIRS & TRADE
MISSIONS
The HKCBA is co-organizing with HKTDC, HKETO and HKTB the
following Canadian trade missions to Hong Kong :
ACHKC co-organise avec HKTDC, HKETO et HKTB les missions
canadiennes à Hong Kong suivantes :
Oct 13 – 16, 2011
Canadian Buying Mission to Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition)
(http://hkelectronicsfairae.hktdc.com/)
Oct 13 – 16, 2011
Canadian Buying Mission to electronicAsia (http://electronicasia.hktdc.com/)
Oct 24 – 30, 2011
Canadian Environment Mission to Hong Kong (coinciding with Eco Expo Asia –
International Trade Fair on Environmental Protection, Oct 26 - 29, 2011)
(http://ecoexpoasia.hktdc.com/)
Oct 27 – 29, 2011
Canadian Buying Mission to Sports Source Asia (http://sportssource-asia.hktdc.com/)
Oct 27 – 29, 2011
Canadian Buying Mission to Hong Kong International Building and Decoration Materials
& Hardware Fair (http://hkbdh.com/)
Oct 27 – 30, 2011
Canadian Buying Mission to Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition)
(http://hklightingfairae.hktdc.com/)
Nov 3 – 5, 2011
Canadian Buying Mission to Hong Kong Optical Fair
(http://hkopticalfair.hktdc.com/)
Nov 3 – 5, 2011
Canada’s participation in Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair
(http://hkwinefair.hktdc.com/)
Dec 1 – 3, 2011
Canada’s participation in World SME Expo (http://worldsmeexpo.hktdc.com/)
Dec 1 – 3, 2011
Canada’s participation in Inno Design Tech Expo
(http://innodesigntechexpo.hktdc.com/)
For details of these trade missions, please contact
Pour plus de détails sur ces missions commerciales SVP contactez
Adrian Cheng @ [email protected]
Or/ou
Jill Chien @ [email protected] of Hong Kong Trade Development Council Toronto Office (Tel: 416-3663594)
AUTRES ÉVÉNEMENTS À VENIR / OTHER EVENTS TO COME
North America Environmental Technology Mission
to Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Nanjing & Wuxi
28 October – 3 November 2011
Organiser
Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC)
Mission Objectives
•
•
•
To familiarise North American companies with the latest developments of
Chinese mainland’s environmental technology industry and Hong Kong services
platform.
To allow North American companies to establish contacts with potential
investment & business partners in Hong Kong and on the mainland via company
visits and networking events.
To highlight the benefits Hong Kong services providers bring to both the mainland
and North American technology companies in investing overseas and on the
mainland.
Target Participants
• Participants of “HK-Jiangsu Joint Technology Investment Mission to the US” in
May 2011;
• North American companies with technology investment projects in new energy,
environmental technology etc which are ready to attract Chinese investment
• Hong Kong services providers specialising in cross-boarder M&A deals
For more information please visit:
THANKS TO OUR « GOLD MEMBERS » FOR THEIR
CONTINUOUS SUPPORT
MERCI À NOS « MEMBRES OR » POUR LEUR SUPPORT
CONTINU