1430 - 1700 pm, 12th December 2008
Council Chamber, Liverpool Chamber of Commerce

Seminar: Impacts of Credit Crunch on Post-Olympics China Market
1430 - 1530

What should British business make of the impacts generated by the Beijing Olympics? Will China or Beijing suffer a post Olympics blue?

Will China be affected by the credit crunch? Will China’s economy slow down significantly or will China be the new opportunity for the global economic growth? What are the policies of Chinese government toward UK-China trade and investment? How should the importers, exporters and investors reposition themselves and change their China strategy under the new global uncertainty? Will China continue to be the workshop of the world? Where will be the new growing hotspots in China? What are other potential new challenges and opportunities?

Speakers at the seminar to cover the topics include:

• Jack Stopforth, CEO, Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
• Mr. Ni Jian, Chinese Consul General in Manchester (to be confirmed)
• Dr. Kegang Wu, CEO ChinaDirect UK and Consultant to Liverpool Chamber

China Market Trade Clinics
1530 - 1700

You will have an opportunity to book an one to one session with Dr. Kegang Wu, consultant to Liverpool Chamber and a leading China market adviser in the UK market to discuss specific project or issue of China market.

The Chamber have been operating a number of services and programme in supporting Merseyside companies in international trade and a member of the Chamber’s team will be available to discuss with you about our current / future programmes, please specific one of the following topics when you  book:

• Finical support for SME companies in Merseyside
• ERDF China programme

The seminar and trade clinics are free. You could attend any one of them or both of them.

For more information or to book, please email: chinalink@liverpoolchamber.org.uk

Options to meet the capacity challenge in Merseyside were unveiled today as Network Rail, on behalf of the rail industry, launched a consultation on a new strategy to shape the future of rail travel in the area.

The Merseyside Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) predicts that passenger numbers using the Merseyside rail network could increase by 40% by 2020, and seeks to accommodate this demand by improving links between Liverpool city centre and Chester, north Wales, Southport, Ormskirk, Preston and Wigan.

The RUS looks at the impact population, employment and housing forecasts will have on demand for rail services, and subsequently estimates rail usage over the next 10 years in the context of longer-term growth. It sets out the industry’s preferred strategy that could be adopted to help meet this demand.

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Tens of thousands of new trees are to be planted in Liverpool to create a new community woodland that will form the legacy of the City’s status as European cultural capital in 2008.

More than £700,000 of regeneration funding is to be invested by a partnership of Liverpool and Northwest organisations to transform 25ha of brownfield land in the West Derby area. The project is striving to create ‘the world’s most colourful woodland’, which will also be a showpiece for the city’s forthcoming ‘Year of the Environment’ (2009).

This new community and cultural woodland for Liverpool is situated off Mab Lane in West Derby and incorporates a former playing field and an area of land known locally as ‘the back field’ close to Stockbridge village and Croxteth Country Park.

£440,000 of investment for this project has been provided by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) via the NWDA and Forestry Commission-partnership programme, Newlands.  Further funding has come form the Forestry Commission through their English Woodland Grant Scheme, The Riverside Group via the Big Lottery’s Changing Spaces programme, the Mersey Forest via Objective 1 (ERDF) funding and Liverpool City Council.