Yasue Pai Shenyang

Yasue Pai, chief US Commercial Officer of Shenyang in Liaoning Province spoke about the growing opportunities in cities in her region of China such as Dalian and Harbin. Dalian has benefited from large investments from companies such as Intel and its proximity to Japan as a port city; Shenyang benefits from the governments initiative to build its infrastructure to support surrounding cities; Harbin benefits from some of the most productive soil in the world making it China's lead agricultural region. Because larger multinationals are beginning to enter into these cities, it becomes easier for small and medium sized enterprises to piggyback on these MNC's and serve the peripheral markets that these companies create.

Ireas Cook Guangzhou

Ireas Cooke, Guangzhou’s Senior Commercial Service officer speaks with Doug Barry about China’s new policy shift to promote business in the provinces of Hainan Island, Guangdong, Fujian, and Guangxi.  She discusses growing import industries within these provinces and the effect China’s clean energy emissions drive will have on the importation of needed equipment upgrades to meet the new environmental standards. 

Eric Wolfe Chengdu

Eric Wolfe is a commercial service officer in Chengdu, China. He talks about possible strategies medium and small companies can utilize in order to break into the smaller, untapped markets of southwest China. Eric focuses on the fact that these cities are substantially more developed than most people perceive them to be and are (basically) ready and willing to have their enormous potential tapped by foreign industry. He then explains how the U.S. and foreign commercial services can assist an individual company and what resources they provide.