Chen Xiaochun

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FOUR innovative enterprises from New Zealand in the fields of online tourism, education, fintech and robotics gave a roadshow during the New Zealand-Futian Business Summit at Consumer Electronics Exchange and Exhibition Center on Friday night, to find cooperation opportunities.

The event was co-hosted by Invest Shenzhen Futian, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, the Icehouse, Eden Ventures and Ping An Cloud Accelerator.

“The Icehouse is the largest enterprise in venture capital investment in New Zealand. In 2017, we set up a fund with investors who are mainly high net worth individuals from China. The investors hope to serve as a bridge between China and New Zealand to further the understanding between both sides,” said Sun Tiantian, Chinese marketing and communications head of Icehouse Ventures.

Sun said that New Zealand is strong in innovation, which may not be well-known in the Chinese market. On the other side, companies in New Zealand find the Chinese market very big and attractive.

“This time, they all said they have learned a lot from the trip. They have met investors and big enterprises, and got to know how professional and effective the Chinese industry insiders are,” Sun told the Shenzhen Daily.

“We have seen absolutely incredible robotics companies and pretty cool robots today. It’s pretty exciting for us to be in China. What we are doing is helping companies connect all their robots. If you imagine in five or 10 years, there will be robots driving you around and delivering you point to point without drivers, robots delivering your supermarket goods ... We believe that there will be an absolute explosion of autonomous robots,” said David Inggs, co-founder of Rocos, a cloud platform for easily monitoring, controlling and automating robots at scale from anywhere.

Richard Dunsheath, trade commissioner of New Zealand Trade & Enterprise-Guangzhou, said that in 2018, China was New Zealand’s largest trading partner, largest goods export market and largest source of foreign students. New Zealand is considered the best country in the world for ease of doing business by the World Bank.

Dunsheath said they are supporting over 50 New Zealand companies to develop cooperation with Shenzhen businesses. The companies are mostly SMEs, while some are large.