New York Conference:
City: New York City
Place: Evergreen Shanghai Restaurant
10 East 38th Street,
New York, NY
Date: Thursday, April 23
Time: 6:30PM
Contact:
Yu Zhong
yu.zhong.609@gmail.com,
1-609-751-3252
The mayor of Chinese city Zhenjiang will lead a delegation of 9 top officials to visit US in late April. The trip is to promote the city’s profile, business environment and attract direct investment from US corporations. Promotion conference or dinner paty will be held in San Francisco, New York, and Vancouver.
The delegates will host a conference /dinner party in New York City on Apr-23. The officials will make presentation on city’s logistics, layout of various industrial parks (Software Park, Bioscience Park, Aviation Industry Park, Ship-making Sites), business environment, tax benefit, science & technology advantage, talents pool and several universities. The conference / dinner will be attended by about 90 corporate executives from various industries. The city's target industries include aviation part suppliers, logistics outsourcing, business processing outsourcing (BPO), IT outsourcing (ITO), alternative energy, new material, modern equipment, medical device manufacturing, LED, photo optical, etc, new material. Executives from other business areas who are interested in setting up joint venture in China are also encouraged to attend the conference.
As Shanghai is on track to become large passenger airplane manufacturing base. the neighboring Zhenjiang city responded by planning / developing one of nation’s largest aviation industry parks, vying for larger slice of pie in aviation part supplying business. The city hopes that the industry park can attract aviation part suppliers business from US and Europe. To achieve that, the city designed a set of tax incentives that will be presented at the conference.
Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, Zhenjiang is a major port city in Jiangsu province. It is at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the major transportation route in China for thousands of years. In 2008, the port handled over 100,000,000 tons of cargo goods. Express railway connects the city to Nanjing in the west and Shanghai in the east. It’s is 2 hours away from Shanghai, Chinese financial capital. The city is part of Yangtze River triangle economic development zone, the fastest growing zone in China.
Zhenjiang is also a top tourist destination, a famous historical and cultural city. The city symbol Jin Hill, or Golden Hill, is known as the jade island in the Yangtze River. The hilltop has an ancient tower. And the well-known Gold Hill Temple is at the foot of the hill, the location of Chinese love story Madame White Snake, in which a magical and 1000-year-old snake took the form of a beautiful lady and escaped through a cave in Gold Hill, to be reunited with her lover in the far-away city of Hangzhou, another scenic city near Shanghai. The cave is now a preserved attraction.
Zhenjiang has strong connection with the US. It is the town where Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck spent 18 years, including her childhood. Her father was a Southern Presbyterian missionary and the family was sent to Zhenjiang to preach in 1892 when Pearl was 3 months old. She was raised in Zhenjiang. Her mother died and was buried there. Pearl S. Buck loved the city and thought of Zhenjiang as her native place all her life. In 2008, to mark the 70th anniversary of Buck’s winning of the Nobel Prize, Zhenjiang Municipal Government sponsored the International Symposium of Pearl S. Buck. A delegation of over 100 people from Pennsylvania attended the conference.
Zhenjiang is one of the 13 cities directly under Jiangsu Province and has 3 county-level cities and 3 districts. It covers 1500 square mile and has population of 3 million, with 1 million urban residents. Zhenjiang has become a new and developing city with a combination of port, industry, commerce & trade and tourism among the river economic belt of the Yangtze River Delta.
To know more about the New York conference on April 23 or the tax benefit, please contact: yu.zhong.609@gmail.com, 1-609-751-3252
