PAK CHINA Business Forum 2015

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COMSATS Institute of Information Technology has been organizing PCBF to bridge up and promote Industry-Academia linkage in various sectors of economic development of Pakistan and China for last three consecutive years.


PCBF2015, as per practice, is aimed to provide an exclusive platform for interaction between leading Chinese and Pakistani entrepreneurs, businessmen and commercial communities to explore possibilities of attracting foreign direct investment from China and vice versa. It aims at providing business opportunities for Pakistani entrepreneurs in vast Chinese market. The PCBF2015 also provides opportunities for commercialization of products and processes, developed at CIIT and other research and development organizations and universities, participating in PCBF2015, actively..


Major sponsors of the event are Pakistan Academy of Sciences and Higher Education Commission, Pakistan.


Following are the event partners:

1. Commission on Science & Technology for Sustainable Development in South (COMSATS)
2. Higher Education Commission, Pakistan (HEC)
3. Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)
4. National Testing Service (NTS)
5. Capital Development Authority (CDA)



From the past three events:


PCBF2012

• Organized from 15-18 April 2012 at Pak-China Friendship Center, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Organized by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
• 14 Chinese Companies participated
• Inaugurated by Pakistan’s Federal minister for Science & Technology Mir Changez Khan Jamali
• Visited by 21 ministers of COMSTECH member countries
• 45000 Local Visitors
• 500 international Visitors
• 25 MoUs signed between various organizations
• Participation by public sector, private sector, R&D organization and universities.
• Visited by ministers, diplomats, business executives, entrepreneurs, professionals, students, families and general public

PCBF2013

• Organized from March 23- 26? 2013 at Pak-China Friendship Center, Islamabad, Pakistan.
• Organized by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan in collaboration with Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Pakistan.
• 32 Chinese and 88 Pakistani Companies participated.
• Inaugurated by Special Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs- Noor Muhammad Jamdani.
• 80,000+ local visitors and many foreign delegates.
• 14 MoUs signed between various organizations.
• Participation by public sector, private sector, R&D organization and universities.
• Visited by ministers, diplomats, business executives, entrepreneurs, professionals, students, families and general public.

Dr. Haroon Rashid and Dr. Qaisar Abbas visit to China

Pro-Rector CIIT, Dr. Haroon Rashid and Dean Faculty of Business Administration, Dr. Qaisar Abbas, visited China from November 18 to November 29 , 2013.. This visit proved to be a good success and fruitful meetings were held at Beijing, Chengdu and Pakistan Study Center in China to explore new avenues of academic and industrial linkage between two countries.





PCBF2014

PCBF2014 was formally opened to the exhibitors? and the general public on March 21, 2014 and was inaugurated by Mr. Zahid Hamid, Federal Minister of Science and Technology, Pakistan, at the Pak-China Friendship Center, Islamabad.

• Participated by 130 Chinese companies represented by 200 Chinese delegates and 85 Pakistani companies.
• Participating companies from China included 10 from information & communication technology (ICT), three biomedical engineering, seven from new and renewable energy sector, one from water conservation & purification and around 104 from various other sectors (automobile, construction, engineering, electronics, garments, jewelry, carpet, marble and rice industry). In addition, five universities also participated from different cities of China.
• The Pakistani companies comprised of 15 from the marble sector, two from rice, 16 from ICT, 10 universities, six from engineering/electronics, and one from agriculture, seven from chambers / associations / societies, two financial institutions and 26 general organizations. The organizations were clustered sector-wise alongside their Chinese counterparts to promote business-to-business collaborations.
• The success of the Forum has been marked by enthusiastic participation of an estimated 95,000 visitors, which included many foreigners as well.
• During the forum 70 agreements were signed among different Pakistani and Chinese companies and many other meetings were held with the government agencies, the Chamber of Commerce and local industry.
• Among these agreements, 14 were signed in marble sector, three in ICT, two in biomedical, three in rice and food sector, 18 in the textile industry and 30 in other general sectors.

PCBF2015

This year PCBF2015 is expected to yield much bigger and better business deals and MoUs. The forum is scheduled to be held from 27th to 30th March 2015.

The Venue for Pak-China business Forum 2014 is Pak-China Friendship Center, Islamabad.

 

[Winchester]

That means university is going to be off from the 27th to the 30th
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oh and PAK-CHINA friendship zindabad

 

[bilalshaw]

That means university is going to be off from the 27th to the 30th
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oh and PAK-CHINA friendship zindabad

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The event is Pakistan's biggest Business Forum.