CPO & Partners was awarded the Nanhu District of Jiaxing, Excellent Partner

Last 10 January 2025, a delegation of CPO Shanghai was invited to visit the complex of the People’s Government of Jiaxing City’s Nanhu District, to attend the 2025 Nanhu District Investment Promotion Conference and receive the award of Excellent Partner. On the occasion, at the presence of the authorities representing the District, Mr. Chen Fangtian, Legal Associate, representing CPO, retrieved the award of Excellent Partner, in recognition of the networking activities organized as an investment promotion ambassador of Nanhu District in China and abroad. Last year, CPO and its Joint Venture Dragon Bridge Investment cooperated with representatives from Nanhu to facilitate the introduction of the District as an ideal hub for foreign investors in China.

In particular, CPO was among the sponsors of the event “Destination Yangtze River Delta: Meeting with Jiaxing, Nanhu District”, held in Milan, Palazzo Clerici, on 5 September 2024 with more than 80 participants whose most part were renowned and excellent Italian SMEs, while both CPO and Dragon Bridge Investment sponsored the event “Shanghai and Jiaxing: A New Opportunity”, activity organized in the context of the November 2024 CIIE (China International Import Expo).

This award brings forth a new year sets to build on past achievements and make further progress in the bilateral investment promotion between Italy and China.

The establishment of the joint venture榫桥卯梁Sun Qiao Mao Liang, born from the partnership between CPO & Partners and local experts, brings forward a new entity that has the purpose of incentivizing business connections between China and Europe, by creating a solid bridge between these two realities.

The name chosen for this new project is a statement in itself on the beliefs that guide such partnership. The four Chinese characters are actually the merge of two distinct words: 榫卯 and 桥梁. The second, qiaoliang, means bridge, symbolizing the channel that the joint venture aims to create between the Chinese and European business worlds. The first, sunmao, a mortise and tenon joint, bears a richer cultural significance which delves deep into Chinese history. Sunmao was a structural method employed in ancient Chinese architecture and furniture characterized by the combination of a concave and a convex part without using any nails. Its peculiarity lies not only in its ingenuity, but especially in the need for a perfect fit between each component. It is this very fit that gives solidity and durability to the whole structure, as demonstrated by the Forbidden City, a precious example of this method that clearly stands the test of time.

It is under this spirit that Sun Qiao Mao Liang is going to operate: establishing a perfect and lasting fit between Chinese and Foreign actors, to create a stable bridge between China and Europe, a connection based on solid ground and capable of resisting the challenge of time.

To introduce this new joint venture, an event sponsored by the China-Italy Chamber of Commerce, Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Cpo & Partners and Jiashan Hangqike Industrial Park Management Co., Ltd. [check name], will be held on 15^th March in Suzhou, during which an overview of the current and future business relations between China and Italy will be presented.