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International Sustainable Cities Forum
Building Sustainable Cities
Bringing together government and corporate leaders from New Zealand and China to explore the challenges and opportunities of building sustainable cities. Held in conjunction with the 1st Anniversary of the signing of the China-NZ FTA.
John Key: Review will encourage investment into NZ
Source: NZ Herald 14 March 2009
The Prime Minister is keen to open the door to foreign investors.
In a speech to the Act Party conference today, John Key said a review of the Overseas Investment Act will be announced by Finance Minister Bill English next week.
The review aims to create an overseas investment screening regime that encourages investment into New Zealand while protecting sensitive land, assets and resources.
Tags: investment, john key, new zealand herald, property, recession
AmCham-China warns U.S. firms against losing opportunities
This warning to US firms to not miss out on opportunities in the current crisis also applies to New Zealand firms doing business or intending to do business in China.
TIANJIN, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) — The head of the American Chamber of Commerce in China Tuesday warned that companies that held back from the Chinese market because of the global economic crisis will lose valuable development opportunities.
And chairman John Watkins called on the Chinese government to provide more “transparent” information about its 4-trillion-yuan (585 billion U.S. dollars) national stimulus package so that U.S. companies could compete fairly with their Chinese counterparts.
“We are quite clear that whoever retreats now will lose development opportunities in China,” said Watkins, also chairman and CEO of Cummins (China) Investment Co. Ltd., in fluent Chinese.
“Most of our members are confident about the Chinese market in 2009,” Watkins told Xinhua.
U.S. companies in China were less affected by the global economic crisis than those back in the United States. Many multinationals, including Cummins, expected to expand in China this year, he said.
“I hope our exports to China could reach 1 trillion U.S. dollars in 30 years and the investment of Chinese companies in the U.S. then could also reach that amount,” he said.
Tags: amcham, china, investment, new zealand, recession, stock market, sustainable development, united states, venture capital
China oil firms could get FX to invest abroad
Article from Reuters
BEIJING, Feb 21 (Reuters) – China could use its $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves to support foreign mergers and acquisitions by Chinese oil and gas companies, the China Daily said on Saturday.
Low-interest loans and capital injections could go to firms like oil giants PetroChina (0857.HK)(601857.SS), Sinopec (0386.HK)(600028.SS) and CNOOC that aim to expand overseas as the global recession lowers share prices of foreign firms, the English-language newspaper said.
Tags: acquisition, china, foreign reserves, investment, recession
Templeton says China stock market has bottomed
SHANGHAI, Feb 20 (Reuters) – China’s stock market has seen a bottom but if the rebound is to develop into a bull run, investors need to see signs of a sustainable economic recovery, the research head at Franklin Templeton Investment’s China fund venture said.
Pan Jiang, who will soon manage a newly launched equity fund that invests in high-growth A share companies, said he favours stocks such as chemicals producer Yantai Wanhua Polyurethane Co (600309.SS) and property developer Vanke 000002.SZ.
Tags: china, investment, recession, stock market, templeton, vanke, wang shi
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