Shanghai / Bay Area Trade Initiative
The Bay Area Council has opened our "Bay Area Business Landing Pad" in Shanghai. A major goal is to expand California employment by giving Bay Area and California companies the opportunity, guidance and connections needed to sell their products and services in China. The relatively anemic economic turnaround in California and the rest of the United States has made accessing the China market critical to our economic recovery. This initiative has become a very big deal in both Shanghai and California – due to its potential job creation and ability to strengthen the ties between our two countries – and we are very pleased that the Governor will be helping us and the State with the China relationship.
2020 World Expo
09/08/10: …Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger held a news conference Wednesday morning at the Santa Clara offices of chip maker Marvell Technology Group, a public pep rally for his six-day trade mission to Asia that begins today.
But the real news of the day never made the conference: California is preparing a bid to host the 2020 world's fair in Silicon Valley.
"When he gets to Shanghai, the governor will pitch bringing the World Expo to Silicon Valley," spokesman Jeff Macedo confirmed late Wednesday...
...After a visit to Shanghai earlier this year, Jim Wunderman CEO of the Bay Area Council, had publicly raised the idea of the Bay Area hosting the 2020 fair, writing in the San Jose Mercury News: "Just look at what Shanghai has been able to accomplish this year with its Expo. When everything is said and done, more than 70 million people from across the world will have attended. The Expo has been Shanghai's stimulus package." Wunderman wrote that the Expo had given Shanghai and China the opportunity "to share their best thinking, companies and culture on a global stage. China has certainly done this. Silicon Valley and California can and should, too. It's time we lay a marker down and start to make a bid for the 2020 Expo to come to the Bay Area."
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16025540
Mission of the Bay Area Council
We are business leaders committed to working with public and civic leaders to make the Bay Area the most innovative, globally competitive, and sustainable region in the world.
What We Do
We improve the competitiveness and vitality of the Bay Area region by:
- Informing and mobilizing business, civic, and political leaders on the most critical issues and opportunities facing the region.
- Developing solutions for an ambitious vision for the region's future with participation of business, government, labor, science and education.
- Achieving results through advocacy and committed leadership to realize this vision.
How We Do What We Do
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- Identify the most critical challenges and opportunities confronting the region.
- Conduct respected research and analysis that sets the agenda for major policy initiatives.
- Promote understanding and collaboration among leaders of affected stakeholders.
- Drive implementation of strategic policy solutions through political, business, and civic leadership.
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Our members gain:
- Significant clout — through involvement of critical mass of top business leaders.
- Collective action — on issues that matter to their company.
- Direct access — to top federal, state, and regional political leaders and stakeholder groups.
- Valuable connections — to the influential business and civic leaders in the region and the world.
- Credibility — through well researched, fact-based positions and policy recommendations.
- Regional policy expertise — through internal experts, external networks, and partner organizations.
- Execution ability — an organization with a proven ability to get results and achieve needed policy outcomes.
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