Topic：
Swiss : Swiss-Sino 1st Innovation & Entrepreneur Cooperation Forum
Time：
December 9th,2017
Location：
Zurich Marriott Hotel, Neumühlequai 42, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland
Description：
In recent years, Sino-Swiss relations have been deepening in multiple areas. In particular, since the two countries signed the Sino-Swiss Free Trade Agreement in 2013 and came into effect in July 2014, the open economy has brought a win-win situation. In April 2016, when the Swiss Federal President Schneider-Ammann visited China, the two countries established a new position of innovative Strategic Partnership. This is the first time that China has established a strategic partnership with foreign countries to mark innovation, which reflects the most prominent features of Sino-Swiss relations, and marks a new stage of the bilateral relationship. In January 2017, President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Switzerland, and deepened into a new vitality for Sino-Swiss Innovative Strategic Partnership. In May 2017, the Switzerland president Doris Leuthard officially visited China and represented Switzerland at the summit on the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. The two sides stressed that the Belt and Road Initiative had the potential to further deepen Sino-Swiss relations – in the spirit of the innovative strategic partnership.
New Huadu Business School (NBS) is a public institution of higher education funded by New Huadu Foundation. In its early days, NBS positioned its operations as entrepreneurship & innovation, and made bold innovation in pattern of school running, governance structure and teaching mode, thus being recommended as a pilot education and reform unit by the Ministry of Education. In 2013, in the context of globalization of Chinese enterprises and Chinese education, NBS repositioned its operations as parallel development of entrepreneurship & innovation and internationalization. In order to further promote the in-depth development of the Innovative Strategic Partnership between China and Switzerland, to promote the effective docking between China and Switzerland for both market and innovative enterprises, NBS and Swiss-Sino Innovation Center (SSIC) are going to jointly organize the Swiss-Sino Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cooperation Forum 2017 (SSIECF2017) to effectively promote cooperation in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship between the two countries.
Obiectives：
Switzerland is one of the world’s most innovative countries. High-tech industries and high-end services, such as medical science, high-end manufacturing, communications and information technology, financial services, etc, are also the most well–known in the world. With a vast market and abundant capital, China has become the best partner for Switzerland Innovation. Moreover, as China’s first free trade partner in the European continent, Switzerland is one of the best channels for Chinese companies to go abroad. The purpose of SSIECF 2017 is therefore to facilitate inter-linkages in the following three areas and to seek practical implementation of a number of specific projects:
Participants:
Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Switzerland
Embassy of Switzerland in People’s Republic of China
Swiss Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI)
Swissnex China
Citychamp Watch & Jewellery Group, COB
2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Chinese Association of Science and Technology in Switzerland (CASTS)
Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS), Peking University
CaiXin Media
CEFC International Group Limited
Longjiang Environmental Protection Group
Campus Stiftung
Kunwu Jiuding Investment Holdings
Germsray Capital
Hecom Technology
Semptian Technologies
China Construction Bank Zurich Branch
Oriental Fortune Capital
China Grand Prosperity Investment
Hainan Group, Swissport International Ltd
UBS (China) Limited.
S-Partners
Swiss Chinese Chambers of Commerce
Swiss Chinese Association
Organizers：
Swiss-Sino Innovation Center (SSIC)
New Huadu Business School Switzerland (NBS)
Chinese Association of Science and Technology in Switzerland (CASTS)
Contact：
The forum is for guests with invitation only. We welcome any Swiss entrepreneurships and innovative teams who are interested in the Chinese capital, or those who may have a future interest in entering China market to expand business or set-up factories, research centers, etc. If you are interested in participating in the Forum, please fill the form and we will contact you as soon as we receive your requests.
Agenda:
9:00 – 9:30 Arrival and Registration
9:30 – 10:30 Opening remarks
Chinese. Ambassador in Switzerland Mr. Geng Wenbing
Swiss Ambassador in China Dr. Jean-Jacques de Dardel
CTI President Mr. Walter Steinlin
10.30 – 11.00 Signing ceremony
Longjiang Group with TRS
11:00 – 11:30 Keynote Speeches
New Huadu Business School, Chairman
Prof. He Zhiyi
Greater Zurich Area AG, President Dr. Balz Hösly
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Buffet
13:30 – 16:30 Startups Presentation
16:30 – 17:00 Closing remark (TBC)
17.00 – 18.00 Networking and Apero
