Checking in with the Chambers of Commerce

Two weeks ago, when this venture took officially off, we made a list of people and organizations we wanted to inform about Chinabiz Speakers. We decided to leave out the many chambers of commerce in China, because those are membership organizations who mostly rely on free speeches of their members or company introductions. And that simply is not our market, since we are living from the speakers' fee.
What we now have learned is that those chambers often get requests for assistance, from visiting delegations, especially now diplomatic missions increasingly cannot cope with the workload of ever more companies coming to China. Already twice we got emails from those chambers who sounded between the lines rather desperate when they get these requests. They do not want to say 'no', but are actually also unable to help those delegations. We possibly can, so we are now going to inform those chambers about our project.
Otherwise, we are working behind the scenes hard to beef up our organization. Over the past few days two famous economists agreed to join our speakers: Fan Gang from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Wang Jianmao, associate dean of China's business school CEIBS. More when the profiles of both gentlemen are ready to be published.