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Slovak Ningbo Online Matchmaking Forum

On November 6, 2020, SARIO, in cooperation with Ningbo Municipal People's Government and the Trade Development Bureau, organized a hybrid-type event - the Slovak Ningbo Online Matchmaking Forum. It was the first event of its kind, where the event took place live in China and speakers from Slovakia together with Slovak companies joined online thanks to the ZOOM platform.

The event was divided into two parts, official speeches and B2B meetings, and was opened by High Representative Li Guanding of Ningbo Municipal People's Government, who highlighted the cooperation on the Belt and Road between Slovakia and China as well as the importance of the event in this difficult period.
This was followed by a speech by the Director General of the Trade Development Bureau, Mr. Wu Zhengping, who was pleased that Slovakia as such, together with Slovak companies, are interested in cooperating in economic and trade areas and joined today to meet their future business partners.
Next speaker, Egon Zorád, Director of the Foreign Trade Department of SARIO,  thanked for the cooperation of the event and emphasized the importance of this type of event not only during the pandemic but also in the future. He expressed confidence in the cooperation between the SARIO agency and the city of NINGBO, which has already become a successful tradition thanks to previous years. The official part of the event was concluded by the speech of the Consul General, Ivana Vala Magátová, who confirmed the very good cooperation of the institutions in the territory as well as the excellent preparation of the event on the spot. Her words about business cooperation not only the past but especially the future ones ended the official part of the event perfectly.

The B2B negotiations were started by a short presentation of all participating Slovak companies, which was presented by Michaela Slimáková, Consultant at the SARIO Foreign Trade Department. On the Slovak side, the event was attended by 10 companies, mainly from the food sector, but also companies from IT and special transport. For these companies organizers matched 21 Chinese companies that expressed interest in cooperation. During the second part of the event, 37 B2B meetings took place.

The event brought a new wind to the sails of long-term cooperation between SARIO and the city of NINGBO, and as the speakers confirmed during their speeches the interest in deepening mutual cooperation is great and therefore we will continue to focus on it in the future.