Asia Trade Mission

Cheng Siwei, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China with Susan Au Allen, who led the USPAACC trade delegation in Beijing in November 2006.

Since 2008, USPAACC has been leading successful Trade Missions to China—designed to extend friendship, establish strategic connections, strengthen existing relations, promote American products and services, explore opportunities for joint ventures, and source potential suppliers.

China, with its vast marketplace of 3.7 million square miles and a population of nearly 1.3 billion, is entering a new era marked by one of the most dynamic and transformative changes of this century. China’s new confidence and dimension in its economic posture, as well as in its ties within the region and in the world, is unprecedented.

With USPAACC’s China Trade Missions, our goal is to strengthen the “global guanxi*,” connecting with people with common business interests to establish and reaffirm relationships in a part of the world where personal contacts are very important.

Our China Trade Mission in 2008 brought us to Beijing, Dalian, and Shanghai—some of the world’s fastest-growing emerging markets. There, we opened doors to high-level networking opportunities and exchanged new ideas with international business leaders.

In 2009, our China Trade Mission built on the success of our journey the previous year. This time, the Trade Mission brought us to Nanjing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and we selected “Food, Beverage, Health & Safety Industries” for our theme, as we tapped into new consumer industries and related dynamic markets that continue to offer great opportunities in this global economy.  2009 CTM Program Book (PDF)

With each trip USPAACC has made, the roster of American-based companies interested in China—or in attracting investment to the United States—has increased dramatically. And this is where USPAACC will continue to play an important role in the years to come: to open doors to more opportunities and to bring all these groups and interests together—what we do best. The prospects are promising, and the sheer size and growth potential are profound and truly amazing.

Our future Trade Missions to China will continue to provide American businesses new access and comprehensive insight into the dynamic Chinese market—including its scale, diversity and potential. China is a vibrant gateway to tremendous investment and growth opportunities for American businesses. Consequently, China will be viewed as an essential gateway to lucrative opportunities—a portal to enhancing and expanding the reach of American businesses in their quest to compete effectively in today’s global marketplace.

As the harbingers of prosperity and growth in this modern-day “silk road,” USPAACC excitedly looks ahead to every milestone we have set ourselves to achieve. And we know that our path to a bright future runs through China.

*Guanxi is a commonly used business term meaning “connections” or “relationship”