Key Business Program
Highlights
- 219 events demonstrating Australian creativity,
innovation and commercial capability, attended by 16,000
guests
- Participation by 25 Commonwealth and State and Territory
ministers and vice regal representatives
- Sixteen launches, including the international launch of
Building Brand Australia, eight MOU signings, and six
announcements
- Involved forty peak body associations
- More than eighty percent participation from China.
- Highly collaborative planning, facilitated by DFAT, with
Austrade, endorsed by the Ministerial Council on International
Trade.
- Commenced consultation with on-ground organisations Australia
China Business Council and AustCham Shanghai Expo Working Group in
2006 and responded to the priorities and areas of low awareness of
Australian capability identified in pre-expo surveys.
- Broadly reflected sectoral priorities in the Australia China
FTA negotiations and supportive of Austrade's China country
strategy and industry sector strategies
- Comprehensive and highly commended pavilion event services
- Use of in-kind contributions from sponsors and partner to
enhance the depth and breadth of Commonwealth activities.
- Key weeks: Victoria, Queensland and NSW weeks; Science week;
and Youth Week.
- Major events: Liveable/Sustainable Cities of the Future Forum;
Australian Financial Services Summit; National Day events; 10th
China-Australia Higher Education Forum; 12th International
Conference of Australian Studies in China; 30th
anniversary of the Australia-China Science and Technology
Partnership; Approved Destination Scheme Annual Bilateral Meeting;
and 4th Australia-China Joint Coordination Group on Clean Coal
Technology.