BEIJING: In the last couple of months, Zhao Xianmei, General Manager of Beloved, a company focusing on artificial intelligence healthcare products, based in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, has been busy flying to industrial exhibitions in different countries, one after another, in the hope of signing new deals with potential international partners.
In contrast to her independent business travel in previous years, Zhao has been making these trips on charter flights together with representatives of other enterprises in Guangdong. These charter flights have been organized by Guangzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau in cooperation with other local authorities. In addition to chartering the flights to participate in exhibitions and visit industrial parks and chambers of commerce overseas, the authorities also conduct market research on behalf of the companies. This has allowed the companies to continue to do business internationally, and several other provinces have adopted similar measures.
“We hope that government departments can provide companies with more opportunities so that they are more confident and willing to embrace the post-pandemic international market, and find more opportunities to compete and cooperate internationally in the coming year,” said Li Lin, head of one such delegation from Zhejiang Province. She said the delegation was organized to meet the needs of enterprises as identified in surveys.
More of these delegations have been organized after December 7, when China’s central authorities issued a notice on 10 new measures to further optimize its COVID-19 response.
–The Daily Mail-Beijing Review news exchange item
