CCBC members are encouraged to take advantage of the bi-annual, no-cost, opportunity to elevate their profiles in CCBC’s Canada Centre in Shanghai. The Centre is a powerfully Canada-themed meeting and display venue that members can use to hold business meetings and receptions for customers, business partners and China staff. The expansive display space, featuring interactive touch screens, is an unrivalled platform to highlight your products and your organization. For non-members, the Canada Centre can be a showcase of Canadian heritage, culture, education, technologies, products, and services that offer your company a visually outstanding and hihgly functional environment for business meetings and social functions.
FAQ’s
Why Canada Centre in Shanghai?
Answer: Shanghai is strategically located at the Yangtze River Delta, which is emerging as China’s most powerful economic region and has been tasked by China’s central government to lead China to world economic success. The Yangtze River Delta region includes the major industrial and commercial cities of Southeast China, such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Shaoxing and Zhoushan. The regional economy is fully integrated, with a well- developed transportation network with its hub in Shanghai.
As the driving force of the Yangtze River Delta economy, Shanghai is the leader of the finance, banking, real estate, automobile and logistic industries as well as consumer market in China. The vast interior of the Yangtze River Delta, which includes major parts of Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, is the industrial base in China for advanced manufacturing for automobiles, aviation, electronics, textile, energy equipment, iron and steel, agri-food processing, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. The area consists of many universities and research institutes collaborating closely with industry for technical innovation and R&D. The region accounts for 20% of China’s gross domestic production and is responsible for one-third of China’s imports and exports.
The Yangtze River Delta represents what may be the world’s largest concentration of adjacent metropolitan areas. More than 80 million people live in the region, with nearly 2/3 in urban areas. Fast economic growth and development has made the area one of the richest and fastest growing markets in China for high-end consumer products and services. Many successful private business people in the region are looking for better products and services, better education for their children and better investment opportunities for their wellbeing.
Why Canada Centre at ShanghaiMart?
Answer: The Centre is located inside the ShanghaiMart in the bustling Hongqiao area of Shanghai, a major international business and trade district. The newly-developed Hongqiao Transit Hub, a 15-minute drive from the Centre, will be operational in 2010 and connect Shanghai’s two international airports. This hub will also be an interchange for all major transport lines connecting the key cities in the Delta region, all within the economic radius of two hours travel distance from Shanghai through highways and inter-city fast speed trains.
The ShanghaiMart is an established international trade and exhibition centre in Shanghai featuring permanent showrooms, trade offices, and information resources that provide both international and domestic business first class facilities and services. Every year, it holds over one hundred trade shows and exhibitions, attracting millions of local business people from both Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region.
The ShanghaiMart provides three business functions:
- The Mart – China’s first and Asia’s largest permanent international trade mart with over 2,000 permanent showrooms of total areas of over 200,000 square meters. The Centre is situated in the central lobby area on the 10th floor of the Mart, a floor for international trade and business.
- The Expo – One of the five major exhibition centres in Shanghai, which provides the state-of-the-art exhibition space and multi-function convention facilities. Hundreds of international and domestic exhibitions and conferences are held here every year.
- The Offices – First-class office building provides high-quality and modern office space for international business operation and global procurement.
A number of countries have set up their centres at the ShanghaiMart, including the Japanese Culture Centre, the Chile Centre, the Sri Lanka Centre, and the All India Industrial Association.
The Centre is open to any Canadian company or organization, with priority given to CCBC members, to use to promote their products, services, or technologies in Shanghai. For more information, please see the Canada Centre Service Menu.
