Doing Business in UK

中国企业如何进入英国市场
Doing Business in
Merseyside and Liverpool

英格兰西北部专页
Doing Business in North
West of England

ChinaLink is a market specialist service providing international promotion and a market consultancy for British companies in China and Chinese companies in the UK. It works closely with trade and investment promotion agencies and local authorities in both countries.

With its head office in Liverpool and offices in Shanghai & Beijing, it has established formal arrangement with 26 Chinese official trade and investment agencies to supportChinaLink's local services in China. In the UK it has carried out work for various local authorities, regional development and inward investment agencies, chambers, trade associations as well as central governmental departments in various cities in the UK.

Established in 1999, the Outward and Inward trade missions programmes of ChinaLink has taken over 300 British companies to various parts of China and over 500 Chinese companies to the UK from over 35 cities and provinces of China. In 2004, more than 30 inward Chinese mission groups visited UK through the arrangement of ChinaLink.

For the Inward support, in the last few years, more than 20 city and provincial organisations from China have commissioned ChinaLink to organise their promotion events & projects in the UK. ChinaLink's inward support services beyond promotion stage include a tested assessment scheme to select feasible Chinese companies for setting up overseas operation, in-market following-up for inward investment leads, hot-desking facilities in the UK for Chinese new projects, and one-stop-shop account manager (or co-ordinator) to enable soft-landing of potential Chinese investors. The support services have been enabled by ChinaLink's bilingual setups including bilingual speaking consultants and professionals, telecom, publishing, web and email facilities throught out its service processes.

ChinaLink's has helped to setup and negotiate many award winning international projects, including non-commercial project such as Liverpool - Shanghai twinning and multi-million pound commercial contracts in import & export, joint ventures and technology transfer.

In summary, ChinaLink is best placed to support public sector agencies for their promotion scheme of attracting prospective Chinese companies and to help prepare their Chinese company clients for investing and setting up in UK because of the following advantages.

• Liverpool Calling China: Record number of Chinese companies visited Liverpool
  
  
• England NorthWest