The competition was fierce and the quality of this year’s application was higher than ever. Jointly winning the Chinese Investor of the Year Award were Beijing Construction Engineering Group (BCEG) and Sanpower Group. BCEG is a leading construction and engineering company in China that is already active in global markets; and Sanpower is a large private conglomerate with expertise in the technology and modern across finance, healthcare and commerce sectors. “It is a great honor to announce the winners of Chinese Investor of the Year Award. Tonight we are here to celebrate the spirit of mutual cooperation for British and Chinese businesses; and to embrace the economic future of the two partners.”

Patron of the BBA 2016, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to China, Barbara Woodward CMG OBE, addressed to the guests, ”Thank you all for joining this wonderful evening. Whether you have been nominated or not, whether you are British or Chinese, or international, thank you for everything that you do day in, day out to build the trade ties between the UK and China. Tonight, above all is a celebration of that.” 

Along with the winning businesses that strive to promote Sino-British Business Links, China Centre has been contributing to the development and growth of talents for local and international businesses. The unique Talent Management Partnership agreements have allowed employees of our partners better accesses to the leading business education that Manchester MBA programmes promises. Promoting the development of students and alumni for career and personal goals has been the underlying purpose of MBS China; yet strengthening business education links between China and UK has been a long-term mission for the Centre.