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BRUSSELS EXPORT’S WORD
Brussels-Shanghai: ARCHITopia
Architecture & Urbanism
Brussels, 8-13/04/2007
With its rapidly increasing urban development, China’s architectural and construction markets are blessed with unprecedented opportunities. It is estimated today that about 40% of the world’s construction materials are consumed in China every year!
During the past two decades, impressive buildings have been completed, namely the new airports in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the National Grand Theater, the Olympic Stadium, the new CCTV building, as well as the upcoming high-end projects for Shanghai Expo 2010. These constructions have witnessed the wisdom and the perseverance of a Sino-foreign alliance and there is no doubt that the western counterparts have contributed a lot to the domestic architecture industry by bringing in brilliant ideas, new designing concepts and remarkable technologies.
Shanghai-Brussels ArchiTopia Forum organized by Brussels Export is held in such a golden time. Last year it achieved great success in Shanghai and received over 2500 visitors. This time, the young architects from China, generally known as “the fourth generation”, decide to fly to the heart of Europe, aiming to exhibit the works and to reveal the mind.
The ten delegates are all aged from 35 to 45, mostly having overseas educational background. Chief architects of the design institutes, university professors and privately-owned studio partners, their works set foot in commercial office buildings, campus construction, gardens and other urban planning projects in Shanghai and its neighboring cities.
The delegation’s presence in Belgium is a unique chance for the Brussels architects. It is an important step for a better understanding and access of the growing Chinese market and its operational style. It is also an exceptional and unprecedented professional matchmaking opportunity.
Bruxelles Export
www.bruxelles-export.be
www.brussels-exporters.be
BRUSSELS EXPORT’S WORD
Brussels Export is a partnership between the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of the Brussels Capital Region and BECI, Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry.
This partnership involves a close collaboration between the two organizations situated at the same address in Brussels.
Their aim: to promote foreign trade and assist Brussels companies by offering a comprehensive range of performing services.
Which services are offered?
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Customized assistance for exporters, either in Brussels or abroad, thanks to a network of over 80 economic and
commercial attachés all over the world. |
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Financial incentives offered to SMEs to conduct individual business trips, participate in international fairs,
develop promotional documents or an internet site, use the services of external foreign trade consultants, send
personnel on export training courses, etc. |
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Collective actions: economic missions, contact days, international fairs, invitations of foreign buyers, meetings
with commercial partners. |
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Supplying information on foreign markets via various media: this website, the Trade Point Brussels and several
publications among which the Brussels Export News. |
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The enrichment of the database thanks to the individual meetings of the commercial prospectors and the promo
tion of the exporting companies on the website www.brussels-exporters.be |
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Training courses on international trade and editing of the Brussels Economic & Export Directory. |
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Selection and appointment of shared export managers for groups of complementary and non-competing SMEs. |
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Exchange of experiences and information through the “Midis de l’Export” and within the “Brussels Exporters Club”. |
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Issuing of customs documents (ATA booklets and certificates of origin) and validation of export documents. |
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Assistance and advice with regards to European issues via the Euro Info Centre (EIC). |
Contact pour Shanghai:
Stefano MISSIR di LUSIGNANO
Brussels-Capital Region
Economic and Commercial Attaché
CONSULAT-GENERAL DE BELGIQUE
127 Wu Yi Road 200050 SHANGHAI
Phone: +86 21/ 643.75.224 – Fax: +86 21/ 643.76.541
E-mail: mail@brussels-china.com
Contact à Bruxelles:
Laurence MARTAUX
Ministry of the Brussels-Capital Region
Foreign Trade Department Attaché
500 avenue Louise - 1050 Brussels
Phone: +32- 2 800 40 82 - Fax : +32- 2 800 40 01
E-mail: www.brussels-export.be
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