Shanghai Summit Update: Final Call!

More U.S. companies are coming to exhibit projects and services at the Invest in America 2014 (Shanghai) Summit and Exhibition March 22-23, 2014. The two day convention is the largest US investment business conference and trade show in China, it is co-sponsored by global law firms Fragomen, Greenberg Traurig and Related EB-5: Hudson Yards.   During the event, thousands of investors and business owners as well as emigration agents from all over China come to explore business and investment opportunities with U.S. exhibitors. Contact us now at ArtisanBusiness@yahoo.com for exhibitor information. Many exhibitors have already taken double booths, reserve your booth today before they are all gone!
The confirmed exhibitors include:

• American Dream Fund
• Ameri-link Capital Regional Center
• Artisan Business Group, Inc.
• China Express Int'l Investment Ltd.
• City of Mount Vernon
• Clark County Regional Center
• Cleveland International Fund
• CMB Regional Centers
• Colorado Regional Center
• Cross Harbor Capital Partners
• ECD Company
• EB-5 Global
• EB-5 United
• Education Fund of America
• E-House Service
• Extell New York Regional Center
• Fragomen
• Greenberg Traurig
• Green Card Fund
• GW Bridge Fort Lee Regional Center
• Hollywood Int'l Regional Center
• InvestAmerica Capital Advisors
• Invest in Texas Initiative
• Klausner II
• LAM NYC EB-5 Regional Center
• Lightstone Group
• Lubert-Adler Regional Center
• Marcum LLP
• Midwest Center for Foreign Investment
• Mount Snow
• New York Proton Regional Center
• North Texas EB-5 Regional Center
• Pacifica Companies
• Pathyways EB-5
• Related EB-5: Hudson Yards
• Riviera Point Development Group
• RockBridge Senior Living Communities
• SkyRise Miami
• Sydell Group
• TBC Washington DC Area RC
• Texas Regional Fortune Center
• The Janus Property Company
• Trapp Family Lodge
• Tristate USA Regional Center
• Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP
  
  It is not too late to sign up as an exhibitor at the Shanghai Summit, please log on http://www.InvestinAmerica2014.org to download an exhibitor manual or call event coordinators Ms. Jenny Liang at 607-379-9466 or Mr. Tyler McKay at 217-899-6661. You can also email us at ArtisanBusiness@yahoo.com for exhibitor information. The exhibitor registration cut-off date is coming up, act now!

Final Call: China trade mission in March

This is a final call!  China Express Agency, a New York based China business consulting firm, is organizing an investment and business exploratory trade mission to China March 20-30, 2014. During the ten day trip, the members of delegation will be meeting with business investors, Chinese trade associations, Chinese immigration agents, the Commercial Department of U.S. Embassy in Beijing China, and local officials.  The trade mission supported by Artisan Business Group will travel to Beijing, Shanghai and fast growing cities such as Hangzhou and Nanchang. Starting with the “Invest in America 2014 (Shanghai) Summit & Exhibition”, the trip continues with five in-depth business seminars, guided city tours and actively engaged networking events in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Beijing and Nanchang, the capital city of Jiangxi Province.  

If you have any questions please feel free to contact zoezhang@chinaexpress.us or contact Mr. Carl Xing at carlxing@chinaexpress.us.

Report from China: EB-5 New Trends

In the past three years, EB-5 regional center program was one of the hottest topics with Chinese emigration industry and many investors who were interested in sending their kids to American schools and colleges. The interest in EB-5 program continues to grow amongst Chinese investors.

In the Year of Horse, we will see new emerging trends that may be shocking to many of us who are involved in EB-5 program: 

1) Chinese real estate developers are coming to develop projects with EB-5 finance in big cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and others; 

2) Chinese immigration agents are acquiring or establishing EB-5 regional centers in popular states such as California and New York; 

3) Chinese immigration agents are taking equity ownership in EB-5 projects;

4) Many new RCs/projects will have difficult time to secure emigration agents in China; and more!  

To learn more about new trends and its possible impact on future EB-5 capital raising activities in Chinese investor market, join us at our Las Vegas Seminar on Feb 5, 2014.

2014 Shanghai Summit program now available

 

An updated program agenda and session schedule are now available at http://www.InvestInAmerica2014.org.  The 4th annual Invest in America 2-14 (Shanghai) Summit and Exhibition is the largest EB-5 investment conference and trade show in China. Exhibitor applications are available on the website.

2013 China Passion Investments White Paper now available

2013 China Passion Investments White Paper is now available for download! The 79-page report is issued by Hurun Report. Over 70 % Chinese investors invest in real estate opportunities. Now you can download a free copy of the report (PDF) at our website http://www.ArtisanBusinessGroup.com.

Happy New Year - Year of the Horse

We at Artisan Business Group wish our partners, clients and friends in China and the U.S. a happy new year!  The Year of Horse will be a very exciting year for EB-5 investors and agents as well as project developers. In the upcoming months, we are promoting and hosting some of the best EB-5 events:  Accelerated EB-5 Capital Raising Process Workshop (Feb. 5); the Invest in America 2014 (Shanghai) Summit (March 22-23), and others events in Florida (April), California (May), Montana and Hong Kong (June).

If you are developing a new EB-5 investment project and need to seek capital in China, please call us at 217-899-6661 or email: artisanbusiness@gmail.com to find out more about EB-5 program.

Set up a China Virtual Phone Number

If your office needs to communicate with Chinese investors and Chinese business partners on a daily basis, Skype call might be helpful. However not everyone in China know how to use Skype.  One of the best tools for communicating with Chinese is to have a China Virtual Number.  The Chinese local phone number will be tied to your US office landline or cellphone number, all inbound calls from China will be directed to your office or cell phones. Chinese callers will only pay a local toll rather than international calling fees.  To set up your own China Virtual Number is very easy and only costs less than $10 per month. 

You can choose and set up your own China Virtual phone number in just a few minutes at http://www.ChinaVirtualNumber.com, no contract is needed.  The service is provided by China's leading phone service China Telecom.

Chinese interest in emigrating to US continues to be strong

(Source: Hurun.net) The number of Chinese high net worth individuals who have emigrated, or are planning to do so, rose from 60% to 64%, accounting for 1 in 3 super-rich. 

The United States is still the destination of choice, while the number of individuals emigrating to Europe has increased. Although the amount of people emigrating to Australia has increased in comparison to last year, very few of the super-rich choose to move there. It is worth noting that of the 64%, only 15% are looking to give up their Chinese nationality, with the majority looking to a permanent residency overseas.
 

	Emigration Destination
1	United States
2	Europe
3	Canada
4	Australia
5	Singapore
6	Hong Kong

Source：《Best of the Best – Chinese Luxury Consumer Survey 2014》