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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (1785)	12/7/2003 11:37:01 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6370

China link to pay dividends Business flows from sister city relationship CHINA is poised to become the engine room of the global economy in the 21 st century, and Australia is in a perfect position to reap the benefits. Within that framework, Maroochy Shire's sister city relationship with the eastern coastal city of Xiamen has the potential to provide a feast of opportunities for Sunshine Coast businesses. The relationship, started seven years ago and consummated in 1999, has been derided in some quarters for being a waste of time and money. But anyone who has done business in China, and indeed most Asian countries, would testify that making the right contacts and creating the right relationships are the cornerstones to success. And those things don't happen overnight. Maroochy signed its sister city agreement in 1999, and recently took its fifth delegation of local businesses to the Xiamen Trade Fair, with outstanding results. Tim Williams, the shire's China consultant and a former merchant banker who first worked in the country in 1966, said the relationship was ''now moving seriously from making contacts to doing real business''. ''We took five different businesses to the trade fair this year and they all came back with business to be done,'' he said. sunshinecoastdaily.com.au