As an entrepreneur, you can no longer afford to remain on the sidelines.

Hong Kong also offers interesting opportunities for Belgian trading partnerships as an operating base for business in and with China.

Today, China is the world’s second biggest national economy with an annual growth percentage that lies far above the European average. The last few decades, the country has invested a lot in the development of its economic system en industrial infrastructure. Furthermore, the country has made a huge progress in the field of R&D and Innovation and in some other very important industries.

Therefore, China needs to be seen as an opportunity, rather than a threat to, in particular, Flemish SME’s/SMB’s. There’s a general misconception that doing business with China is only the big multinationals’ prerogative. The opportunities are not only to be found in providing goods and services to China, but also in purchasing finished products and commodities from China for sales and processing in Europe.