MP Meets Powerful Chinese Delegation Over a Pint
Daniel Zeichner chats about Brexit and Anglo-Chinese relationships at Eagle pub
Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner met with a large group of influential Chinese business-people and ate a traditional fish and chip lunch with a pint at a famous Cambridge pub.
Culminating a week-long visit to Cambridge, which included lunch at St. Johns’ College, punting and cycling and visits to the Botanic Gardens and The Orchard tea gardens in Grantchester, the group from Shanghai chatted with Mr. Zeichner in the Eagle pub, well-known in China for the discovery of DNA at the nearby Cavendish laboratories.
Topics of discussion were Brexit, learning English and business relations between the UK and China in the event organised by local company englishincambridge.com, provider of personalised English language programmes
The group, who studied together for an Executive MBA at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, have all gone on to set up successful organisations or hold influential positions in a range of industries including healthcare, car rental, shipping and construction.
The group was invited to Cambridge by Gu Xeubin, managing director of Info Salons, China’s leading event management company, who is currently based in Cambridge while his children are English educated and his wife undertakes a directorship at AstraZenica.
Robert Coe from englishincambridge,com explained the significance of the visit: “After experiencing our unique British culture first-hand, meeting our local MP and seeing all of what Cambridge has to offer, these influential business-people and their families will take many good memories back to Shanghai.”
“Our guests head organisations worth billions of pounds and it is hoped that these positive memories of Cambridge will encourage them to visit again and might influence their decision-making on where to target investment and develop partnerships with Cambridge’s many world-class businesses,” Mr Coe said.
Mr Zeichner added, “Cambridge has the biggest Chinese community per head of population outside London, and we now have many Chinese visitors coming to the City boosting our local shops, restaurants and hotels.”
“I was delighted to welcome this particular group of businesspeople and their families and join them for a traditional English fish and chip lunch and a pint in one of Cambridge’s most historic pubs, said the Labour MP.
“Cambridge is a global city, and in the uncertainty following the referendum on our membership of the European Union, it is even more vital that we continue to build good relationships with key trading partners like China,” he stressed.