The China-New Zealand Technology Commercialization Networking Forum was successfully held at Wenjin International Hotel, Beijing on April 18th, 2008. This Forum was hosted by International Technology Transfer Center (ITTC), Tsinghua University, China and The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

This Forum was held under the background of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed by the two governments between China and New Zealand. With the aims to respond to New Zealand’s own economic growth imperatives by sharing experience in technology transfer between counterparts and fostering joint research projects, this forum helped to build the bridge and communication between China and New Zealand enterprises, deepened their mutual understanding.

During this forum, NZ delegation and Chinese participants with over 200 representatives from universities, research institutes and high-tech based enterprises joined this forum. As a great success, this forum was set as the example of communication platform between China and New Zealand and would be meaningful to the future.

Prof. Weihe Xie, President of Tsinghua University, Dr. Christopher Tremewan, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland, H.E. Mr. Tony Browne, New Zealand Ambassador to China attended this forum as the honorable VIPs for opening statements; this forum also invited Mr. Andrew Grant, the Head of Greater China, McKinsey & Company, Ruichun Duan, Vice Minister, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of State Council and other honorable guests from both China and New Zealand as keynote speakers. Dr. Hongxin Tan, General Manager of ITTC, Tsinghua University, made his speech about “International Technology Transfer- the Practices of Coway”.

According to Dr. Tan’s speech, ITTC has witnessed the growth of Technology Transfer between China and the rest of the world, accumulated a lot of valuable experience. Consulting Division, as one of the essential parts of ITTC, proudly behaves as an opening window to worldwide clients who are interested in China market, remains constantly in delivering professional package market entry solutions.