Conferences & Meetings
In China
China Import and Export Fair, Guangzhou
Also known as the Canton Fair. More than 24,000 foreign trade corporations are expected to take part.
Date: Oct 15-Nov 4
Venue: China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex
Website: www.cantonfair.org.cn
The 18th China Yiwu International Commodities Fair, Yiwu
Promoted as an international event with top services and security. One of the largest, most influential and most productive among commodities fairs in China.
Date: Oct 21-25
Venue: Yiwu International Expo Center
Website: www.chinaexhibition.com
China Education Expo
An event for overseas schools to expand their presence in the world's potentially largest recruitment market.
Date: Oct 20-Nov 3
Venue: Selected cities
Website: chinaeducationexpo.com
China Xiamen International Vegetarian Food Fair, Xiamen
Centers on vegetarian food, environmental protection and health in the Chinese mainland.
Date: Oct 19-22
Venue: Xiamen International Conference & Exhibition Center
Website: www.chinaexhibition.com
Eco Lifestyles Fair, Shanghai
A green marketing platform for government agencies, municipalities, district officials, food and beverage groups, restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and departmental stores.
Date: Oct 25-27
Venue: Shanghai Mart
Website: www.chinaexhibition.com
Conferences & Meetings
In Europe
Opportunities on the new Silk Road - As China goes West, can the West go East?, London
Provides people with a better understanding of Central Asia, China's growing role there and what opportunities exist for European companies in the region.
Date: Oct 2
Venue: Third Floor Portland House Bressenden Place
Website: www.cbbc.org
China Europe International Business School - Evening Networking Event, London
For those interested in pursuing higher education connected to China and Asia.
Date: Oct 7
Venue: Third Floor Portland House Bressenden Place
Website: www.ciebs.edu
Improving shareholder value; maximizing and protecting your intellectual property across the Web and in new markets such as China, London
Experienced speakers will focus on China to illustrate both the opportunities and pitfalls of not protecting and commercializing intellectual property effectively.
Date: Oct 9
Venue: Royal College of Physicians
Website: www.cbbc.org
Enabling Innovation: Huawei Showcase, London
Offers knowledge of the procurement process of Huawei, the Chinese global information and communications technology solutions provider, and provides opportunities to meet some Chinese technology decision-makers.
Date: Oct 15
Venue: Aldersgate Room, Central Hall, Storey's Gate, Westminster
Website: www.cbbc.org
Culture
In China
Sounds of Britain - Sir Mark Elder and the Halle Orchestra, Beijing
One of Britain's oldest orchestras celebrates British classics alongside a world premiere.
Date: Oct 10
Venue: Forbidden City Concert Hall
Website: www.uknow.org.cn
Blind Summit's The Table, Beijing
Puppet innovators Blind Summit Theatre present a stunning new show about a puppet stuck on a table.
Date: Oct 23-28
Venue: Beijing Pioneer Theater of the National Theatre of China
Website: www.uknow.org.cn
Harmony Shanghai: Firebird, Shanghai
A group of 120 Shanghai-based pupils from Chinese and German schools will perform Royston Maldoom's choreography based on Igor Stravinsky's Firebird on stage.
Date: Oct 24
Venue: Lyric Theater
Website: www.shgtheatre.com
Staatskapelle Dresden, Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing
Founded by Prince Elector Moritz von Sachsen in 1548, this is one of the oldest orchestras in the world and steeped in tradition. Christian Thielemann, its current principal conductor, has received honorary membership of the Royal Academy of Music.
Dates and venues:
Oct 28, Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center, Taipei
Oct 30-31, Shanghai Grand Theater
Nov 2-3, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing
Website: www.wupromotion.com/en/international-artists
Culture
In Europe
Decorative themes on Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, London
The decorative themes of dragons, flowers and calligraphy on Chinese blue-and-white porcelain will be explored by Anne Haworth, an independent speaker specializing in the art of ceramics.
Date: Oct 20
Venue: The British Museum
Website: www.britishmuseum.org
Collecting abroad for the V&A 1851-1914, London
This display tells the stories of five intrepid agents whose mission was to find and buy the best of world art and design for the V&A: Henry Cole and Richard Redgrave (Italy), Robert Murdoch Smith (Iran), Caspar Purdon Clarke (Turkey), and Charles Wylde (China and South Korea).
Date: Oct 2-May 26
Venue: Library Landing, Room 85
Website: www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/collecting-abroad-for-the-v-and-a-1851-1914
Chinese seals: tradition and innovation, London
In conjunction with a contemporary Chinese seals exhibition by Li Lanqing, this conference looks at seals in religious, political and social contexts from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) to the present.
Date: Nov 3
Venue: Stevenson Lecture Theater, British Museum
Website: www.britishmuseum.org
Events can be sent to: events@mail.chinadailyuk.com
(China Daily 09/28/2012 page31)
