This document summarizes the AmCham Shanghai SME Center, which connects small and medium enterprises in the US and China. The SME Center has over 3,800 users and 200 company profiles listed. It offers promotional services and access to business opportunities, projects, and partners. Testimonials praise how the Center has helped companies raise funds and find partners. The Center plans to expand its industrial park listings, partnership network, and expert resources to better serve SMEs.
4. Subscriber Benefits
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Promotional profile page
Access to projects, opportunities
Promotional offerings on line
Bid requests, RFPs
New user Communiqué news
promotion
- Low cost industrial park promotion
- Service inquiry listings,
- Matched push messages
Efficiently Connect To Vibrant China Market
7. China Industrial Park Promotion
Executive Promotion Package
Premium subscription plus
Dedicated page
Newsletter Communiqué promotion
Promotional seminar in SME Center
Exhibition material in SME Center
Shared materials - US Trade delegations
Already joined up: Weihai, Wuxi, Yangshan, Nanjing
8. Testimonials
…this is a go-to location for information and
resources that are posted on the SME center will be
valuable to US SMEs who wish to learn how to
expand their businesses to China…
- Karen Dickinson, General Partner of Polsinelli Law Firm
…our listing directly assisted us in elevating the
profile of our project raising $52 million USD to
bring New York based Wyndham Dream Hotel
Downtown to Hollywood, CA…this creates 1200
jobs….
- Grant W. King, Hollywood IRC
…we have greatly benefitted from already meeting
a sizeable USA company and their project through
the SME Center, we will cooperate with them on a
major project in USA for hotel to create 2400 jobs…
- Helen Zhang, B.String Consulting
WorldEx
9. Market
SMEs Create 80% of Jobs & Represent The Lion
Share of Economic Growth in US and China
Target
Viable and start-up businesses wanting to penetrate
China, with assistance to China firms entering USA
Government agencies, associations requiring more
recognition of their services, offerings
Investment project holders in USA and China looking for
attracting investment
Small and Medium Size Enterprises in both USA and
China looking for partners, service providers, experts
Organizations posting opportunities, service requests
and looking to find providers, connect
China industrial parks reaching tenants and new
manufacturing, R&D investments from USA
10. Differentiators
AmCham Shanghai is the largest, fastest growing
business chambers outside the U.S. in the heart of
the vibrant high growth business capital of the
world
Professional capable, energetic staff
Experienced, engaged 3,800+ Members
22 Active Industrial Sector Committees
Innovative virtual SME platform
High representation of experts across MNCs and
SMEs in membership
Long tenure of expertise in membership represented
Wealth of resources, business opportunities and
referrals for small business
Vetted business project listings in the USA
Access to right locations, right partners, right business
parks
11. Viability
AmCham Shanghai is the largest, fastest growing
business chambers outside the U.S. in the heart of
the vibrant high growth business capital of the
world
Excellent relationships with US and China
governments
Strong expertise across 22 major industrial sectors
Keen and timely watch and reporting, conferencing on
the Shanghai (Pilot) Free Trade Zone
Known as the “Voice of American Business” in China
Preparing for Shanghai, China 100 Year Anniversary
in 2015
12. Success Indicators
AmCham Shanghai virtual SME Center is the
innovator for securing successes for small and
medium size enterprises
3,800 users of SME Site
200+ Listings on SME portal
21 Business Opportunities listed
47 Business Referrals Accomplished
Helped raise 37 million USD for US projects
Formal partnerships with US Trade & Development
Agency (USTDA), Alibaba.Com, UCCTC Clean
Technologies Association for SMEs, Nanjing Chamber of
Commerce & Trade, International Shanghai ECommerce (ISEC), US Department of Agriculture
(USDA), China Green Tech Initiative (CGTI)
Multiple Partnerships in Pipeline
13. Plans To Scale
AmCham Shanghai virtual SME Center growing in
size, users, and scope on weekly basis
200+ Listings on SME portal, will multiply growth
Major new investment project holders signed
New pipeline partnerships in line for announcement in
coming weeks
Access and exposure to Alibaba.Com 36 million users
Expert advisors access program in pipeline in coming
weeks
Push messages for noticing business opportunity
referrals will expand
China Industrial Parks postings on interactive map in
pipeline
AmCham Shanghai close watch, postings and regular
conferencing on Shanghai (Pilot) Free Trade Zone will
have close watch on SME Opportunities in Shanghai
