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OTTAWA — Mayor Jim Watson is planning another trade mission to China this fall, playing off an October tour by the National Arts Centre Orchestra in an attempt to drum up business.
The Ottawa Chamber of Commerce announced the mission on its website; the visit lasts from Oct. 12 to 20 and focuses on Beijing, the business group says. The orchestra is touring China from Oct. 4 to 21, with tour details to be revealed later.
“I can confirm that Mayor Watson will lead a trade and investment ‘Team Ottawa’ mission to China in the fall to strengthen economic development, tourism and education partnerships. More details will be available in the coming weeks,” Watson’s spokesman, Ryan Kennery, responded to emailed questions from the Citizen.
The timing of the two trips is by chance, Kennery said: “The Mayor’s trade mission coincides with the NACO tour, but the two are not related. The Mayor’s activity in China will be largely focused on economic, tourism and educational partnership development.”
That said, Kennery added Watson intends to attend an orchestra performance in Beijing with senior Chinese officials. The presence of a mayor on such a trip often opens doors that Ottawa business people might not get through on their own. Watson’s presence obliges his Chinese hosts to have him greeted by people of equivalent status and gives the business executives a chance to hobnob.
The orchestra’s tour is partly sponsored by Plasco Energy Group, the Ottawa-based startup that promises to turn ordinary municipal garbage into electricity. Also, the mayor’s sister Jayne Watson is chief executive of the National Arts Centre’s foundation and has championed its artistic exchanges with China.
Jim Watson, who signed a sister-city compact with Beijing during his previous stint as mayor, last went to China on a four-day trip in 2011 to promote tourism and his predecessor Larry O’Brien went on a more extensive 11-day tour the year before, aimed at promoting Ottawa’s high technology industry. As is typical of such missions, a lot of cherries were plunked atop a lot of already-made sundaes: massive diversified tech firm Huawei announced plans to double its small Ottawa workforce in a newly opened research centre and Plasco formalized a deal with Beijing to set up a trial waste-to-energy facility there, for instance.
Invest Ottawa, a quasi-independent economic development agency Watson co-chairs, also has a deepening relationship with Z-Park, a high-tech incubator in Beijing. It’s meant to entice Chinese businesses to set up shop here and make it easier for Ottawans to sell to China.
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OTTAWA — Mayor Jim Watson is planning another trade mission to China this fall, playing off an October tour by the National Arts Centre Orchestra in an attempt to drum up business.
The Ottawa Chamber of Commerce announced the mission on its website; the visit lasts from Oct. 12 to 20 and focuses on Beijing, the business group says. The orchestra is touring China from Oct. 4 to 21, with tour details to be revealed later.
“I can confirm that Mayor Watson will lead a trade and investment ‘Team Ottawa’ mission to China in the fall to strengthen economic development, tourism and education partnerships. More details will be available in the coming weeks,” Watson’s spokesman, Ryan Kennery, responded to emailed questions from the Citizen.
The timing of the two trips is by chance, Kennery said: “The Mayor’s trade mission coincides with the NACO tour, but the two are not related. The Mayor’s activity in China will be largely focused on economic, tourism and educational partnership development.”
That said, Kennery added Watson intends to attend an orchestra performance in Beijing with senior Chinese officials. The presence of a mayor on such a trip often opens doors that Ottawa business people might not get through on their own. Watson’s presence obliges his Chinese hosts to have him greeted by people of equivalent status and gives the business executives a chance to hobnob.
The orchestra’s tour is partly sponsored by Plasco Energy Group, the Ottawa-based startup that promises to turn ordinary municipal garbage into electricity. Also, the mayor’s sister Jayne Watson is chief executive of the National Arts Centre’s foundation and has championed its artistic exchanges with China.
Jim Watson, who signed a sister-city compact with Beijing during his previous stint as mayor, last went to China on a four-day trip in 2011 to promote tourism and his predecessor Larry O’Brien went on a more extensive 11-day tour the year before, aimed at promoting Ottawa’s high technology industry. As is typical of such missions, a lot of cherries were plunked atop a lot of already-made sundaes: massive diversified tech firm Huawei announced plans to double its small Ottawa workforce in a newly opened research centre and Plasco formalized a deal with Beijing to set up a trial waste-to-energy facility there, for instance.
Invest Ottawa, a quasi-independent economic development agency Watson co-chairs, also has a deepening relationship with Z-Park, a high-tech incubator in Beijing. It’s meant to entice Chinese businesses to set up shop here and make it easier for Ottawans to sell to China.
dreevely@ottawacitizen.com">dreevely@ottawacitizen.com
ottawacitizen.com/greaterottawa
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