June 15th | New Business Referral Dinner

  Last Thursday AustCham proudly hosted one of it’s regular Business Referral Dinners, this time with a fresh new format based on attendee feedback. We welcomed over 30 guests to The Crowne Plaza Guanzhou City Centre, who generously provided their five star hospitality for the evening, for a night of networking, industry referrals and food. …

June 16th-18th | AustCham at International Food Exhibition 2017

Sunday marked the end of AustCham’s involvement in 2017’s International Food Expo (IFE), organised by one of our consisting members Yifan Exhibition Company. IFE is a three day expo and currently the biggest food and beverage trade show in South China. Approximately 2000 exhibitors were involved in this years IFE, which encompassed a whopping 60,000 …

June 8th | Guangzhou Summer InterChamber Drinks

AustCham would like to say grazie and dankeschön to the Italian and German Chambers of Commercein Guangzhou for organising June’s InterChamber Drinks. AustCham members old and new showed up in force including Chairman Chris Roberts and Secretary Alfred Wu. Thanks go also to Sun in Sky, whose Italian management provided an excellent venue and service, …

May 25th | New Technology and The New Economy

This Wednesday AustCham South China partnered up with ACYPI, ACAA, and ACYA to host our New Technology and the New Economy forum. Hosted in Kingold’s  Bayview Clubhouse, we saw presentations from Australian Consulate General Dominic Trindade, Huawei’s Simon Lacey, Xiaoming’s Marco Yang,WeChat’s Kevin Shimota, and Yulian Technology’s Jimmy Cheng. The focus of the event centred …

May 25th-27th | AustCham Wraps Up Interwine

The Interwine expo wrapped up today and what an expo! Our Deputy Consul-General Paul Sanda cut the ribbon and officially opened China’s largest wine expo for its twelfth year, symbolic of the importance that Australia places in is wine industry. Thanks to Rita Jia for inviting AustCham and to everyone who came down and visited …

Congratulations! The 2017 ACBA Winners Are…

  Introducing the Winners of the 24th Annual Australia-China Business Awards On Thursday the 18th of May, AustCham Beijing held one of the largest events on the Australia China business calendar – the annual Australia China Business Awards (ACBA) Gala Dinner – at the JW Marriott in Beijing. With over 450 guests in attendance, the Gala …

AustCham Art Gallery | Uluru in Bright of Day

  AustCham South China Proudly Supports the Arts Title: Uluru in bright of day Completed: November 2016 Price: 25500rmb It’s about how beautiful the play of colours are in central Australia, in this instance daytime afternoon, with a rainless storm brewing in the background. This painting is one of a series of Uluru pictures, one of which is …

May 12th | Immigration Roundtable

New AustCham South China members, Fragomen, gave presentations this morning on changes to visa requirements and processing in both Australia and China. Attendees took advantage of this opportunity to ask about details from lead times to port of entrance, and even sending your kids to school in China. Held as a single-topic seminar in an …

May 11th | First Event Sub-Committee Meeting

Yesterday marked the inaugural meeting of AustCham South China’s first Event Sub-Committee, and what a success. Generously hosted by Servcorp IFC, this small motivated group of diverse member representatives got heads together on what 2017 and onward should look like. The meeting focussed on establishing a platform for the membership and the broader business community …