CHAIRMAN’S REPORT

Dear President, The Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of Bristol, Councillor Bill L Martin,

Officers, Executive Members, Members, and Friends.

Since the last annual meeting, I am pleased to report the last twelve months of the delegation’s visit to our Sister City and developments.

SUMMARY OF THE VISITS:

Visit to Bristol by Christopher Wood, HM Consul-General, British consulate-General-Guangzhou.

7^th July 2003

08:50 hours - Arrive at the Mansion House
Met by the Rt.Hon.The Lord Mayor of Bristol and President of Bristol China Partnership (BCP) - Councillor Bill Martin; David Clark - the Lord Mayor's Secretary; Paul Barnett - Head of Cultural Services Bristol City Council (BCC); John Hughes - Patron BCP; Kam Wong - Chairman of BCP; Wallace Kwong - General Secretary of BCP; and Members of BCP

Wallace Kwong, Chris Wood, Mike Rafter, Bill Martin, Paul Barnett, Kam Wong, John Hughes

10:00 hours - Leave Mansion House for Trade Partners UK (TPUK)

10:15 hours - Arrived at TPUK
Met by Neil Blakeman, International Trade Director

Chris Wood and Neil Blakeman

12:10 hours - Leave TPUK for Riverstation Restaurant

12:30 hours - Welcome Lunch at Riverstation Restaurant
Met by Paul Barnett - Head of Cultural Services, in the Department of Environment, Transport & Leisure, of BCC; Sandra Fryer - Head of Sustainable Development, in the Department of Environment, Transport & Leisure, of BCC; Simon Caplan - Head of Corporate Communications, of BCC;. Liz Bissett - Head of Regeneration, in Neighbourhood & Housing Services, of BCC; Karen King - Business Support Co-ordinator, Economic Regeneration, in Neighbourhood & Housing Services, of BCC.

14:00 hours - A boat trip from Riverstation Restaurant to the Nova Scotia pub, a car pickup from NSP & driven to BCFC.

14:30 hours - Arrive at the Bristol City Football Club (BCFC)
Met by Colin Sexstone - CEO of BCFC; and Richard Gould - Commercial & Communications Manager

Chris Wood, Kam Wong, Richard Gould (Marketing manager Bristol City F.C.), David Cooke 16:00 hours

Leave BCFC for Cardiff

Sunday 5-6 October November 2003

Professor Charles Harvey, Dean of Business School and Mrs Dianne Francombe University of South West of England, Kam Wong and Paul Chang visit to Guangzhou to promote the educational exchanges and cooperation between Guangzhou and Bristol.

Met by Mr Fang Xiaoming, Director General and Mr Simon Zhen, Director of Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office, Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government.

Professor Charles has offering Mr. Horatio Li the MBA scholarship at the UWE and John Hughes sponsor the cost of accommodation. This course will start beginning in September 2004.

Wednesday 10 March 2004

Visit to Bristol by Charles Haswell

Director of Trade & Investment, British Embassy, Beijing

09.45 – 12.30 Meeting at the Mansion House, Clifton

09.45 – 10.30 Meet Lord Mayor of Bristol Cllr. Bill Martin

10.30 – 12.30 Meeting Bristol China Partnership (BCP) members

Friday 19March 2004

Visit to British Consulate-General Office in Guangzhou by Kam Wong

15:00 – 16:30 Meeting Bob Thompson Export Promoter – China

Environmental and Oil & Gas

(UK Trade & Investment)

Councillor. Stephen Gill

Group Manager-Waste Management

Neighborhood and Housing Services from the Bristol City Council

The meeting is updating the recent development and the past two years between Bristol and Guangzhou, and also discussing a delegation visit to Guangzhou and other part of China from the South West Business Companies in September/October 2004.

Saturday 20 March 2004

08:00 – 11:00 Kam meeting Mr Ping Xin Guang, Chairman of Economic Commission of

Guangzhou Municipality.

Deputy Director Mr George Huang, of Economic Commission of Guangzhou

Municiplaity, Economic Operation Divison.

Requesting BCP to organizing a Programme/Seminar for them to visit Bristol on

the 28th April 2004. Please see attached details and name list.

11:00 – 13:00 Meeting Mr Zhang Wei Jian, Director of Trade Standard Council of Guangzhou

Municipal Government.

Requesting BCP to organizing a Programme for them to visit Bristol this year.

Date to be confirm!

NOTE OF THANKS

I would also like to extend my thanks to our many sponsors who share this important role. I should also like to give my sincere thanks to John Hughes and congratulate all our Officers and Members, particularly Wallace Kwong who helped immensely and contributed so much hard work to the Bristol China Partnership.

The Partnership would also like to express it’s sincere gratitude to;

The Prime Minister Tony Blair MP
His Excellency Mr Zha Peixin, ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the UK
Madame Zhang Xiaokang, Minister Counsellor of the People’s Republic of China to UK
Mr. Zhang Guangning, Mayor of Guangzhou Municipality
Mr Fang Xiaoming, Director General of Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office
Christopher Wood, HM Consul-General, British Consulate-Guangzhou
Neil Blakeman, Director of UK Trade Investment
Paul Williams, Deputy Director of UK Trade Investment
The Bristol City Council
The President of the BCP, The Rt.Hon.the Lord Mayor of Bristol, Councillor Bill Martin
The Lady Mayoress, Mrs Sue Martin
Councillor Barbara Janke, Leader of the Council
Councillor Helen Holland
Professor Charles Harvey, Dean of Business School, University of South West of England.
Mrs Dianne Francombe, Director of Business School, University of UWE
Paul Barnett, Head of Cultural Service
The Ex-Lord Mayor, Councillor Graham Robertson and Mrs Joyce Robertson
John Hughes, of Mail Marketing International
Wendy Ho, of Dynasty Restaurant
David Worthington, of Veale Wasbrough
David Cook JP FCA Director, Forensic Accounting Group - NUMERICA
Timothy Jones, Director of International Affairs, University of Bristol
Ian Newton, of !Xclaim multimedia
And all the people who have been involved with BCP

I look forward to your continuous support.

Kam Wong