PARTNERS
Principal partners
 | Operating from 27 offices across the Asia Pacific, EMEA and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full- service legal advice. The firm provides many of the world’s most important organisations with access to market-leading dispute resolution, projects and transactional legal advice, combined with expertise in a number of global industry sectors, including Banks, Consumer products, Energy, Financial buyers, Infrastructure & Transport, Mining, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, Real estate, TMT and Manufacturing & Industrials. |
 | KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing a full range of services to organisations across a wide range of industries, government, and not-for-profit sectors. Our service areas are Audit, Assurance & Risk Consulting; Deals, Tax & Legal; Management Consulting; and Innovation & Digital Solutions. In addition, KPMG Enterprise tailors its services to meet the unique needs of mid-sized, fast-growing and family-owned businesses. In Australia, KPMG has a long tradition of professionalism and integrity, combined with our dynamic approach to advising clients in a digital-driven world. We have approximately 6,700 people, including over 400 partners, with offices around the country. |
Major partners
 | Over 30 years we have built an unrivalled Asia network which spans 13 markets in Asia complemented by the global reach of our offices in Europe and the United States. The result is a unique ability to deliver insights, liquidity and capital to clients across the globe. In 2013, CITICS acquired CLSA to secure a platform for their international expansion. As part of the CITIC Group, one of China’s largest conglomerates operating across more than 20 industries, CITIC Securities is connected to some of the most dynamic companies in China. As these companies seek capital for expansion domestically or internationally, CITICS and CLSA are best placed to support their needs. |
 | JLL is a leading professional services firm that specialises in real estate and investment management. A Fortune 500 company, they help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. JLL works for a broad range of clients who represent a wide variety of industries and are based in markets throughout the world. Their clients vary greatly in size and include for-profit and not-for-profit entities, public-private partnerships and governmental entities looking to outsource real estate services. In 2017, JLL had revenue of US$7.9 billion and fee revenue of US$6.7 billion; managed 423 million square meters; and completed investment sales, acquisitions and finance transactions of approximately US$170 billion. |
 | Australia’s is located in the world-famous wine region - Barossa Valley, South Australia. Its business scope includes wine production and sales, Australian boutique trade, high-end winery holiday tourism, school-enterprise joint training and winery alliance. Wait for five major sections. The 1847 winery has seven private vineyards, producing 10,000 tons of wine a year, a storage capacity of 12,000 tons and a vineyard area of over 820 hectares. As of 2017, 1847 wines won more than 210 gold and silver awards in world-class wine competitions. In 2018, world-renowned wine critic James Halliday praised the 1847 wine as “an outstanding representative of the outstanding wines.” |
 | China Telecom (Australia) Corporation Limited (CTAU) was established in January 2011. Its inception is another important milestone in China Telecom’s decade of overseas expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. Subsequent to the deployment of the nodes in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, the completion of the Australian network node marks China Telecom’s preliminary accomplishment of its network layout of four core nodes in the Asia-Pacific region. These nodes will help China Telecom further extend the reach of its global services and network. Also, as our business continues to expand, branches will be set up in Melbourne and Perth, and successively apart from CTAU’s headquarters in Sydney. |
Hosts
 | Boao Business Consulting is a professional services firm that specialises in helping in Chinese business leaders and their companies to establish and improve commercial partnerships with foreign counterparts. We provide tailored services to businesses, governments and not-for-profit organisations in the areas of cross broader investment, international expansion and public relations. |
 | Australian Financial News (AFN) is an Aussie-Sino business-focused, Chinese-language international daily news platform based in Sydney. It is the first and the most professional vertical platform welcomed by 189,000 readers. Along with delivering daily news review, AFN hosts and provides discussion panels and business conferences associated with real estate, wealth management, tax strategies |
 | Since 2014, PR Asia has been one of the foremost marketing companies in Australia and Asia. We pride ourselves in possessing deep, multi-disciplinary industry relationships, and provide invaluable strategic resources to our clients and partners. In 2020, PR Asia will execute over 300 events including film premieres, stage shows and brand activations targeted at Australia’s local Asian community. |
Official partner
 | ASX is one of the world’s leading financial market exchanges, offering a full suite of services, including listings, trading, clearing and settlement, across a comprehensive range of asset. |
Strategic media partners
 | We are Australia’s national news brand with a total audience reach of 3.6 million. In a world of sound bites and spin, we keep Australians fully and accurately informed about the issues that matter. For over half a century, we have been the nation’s most trusted source of news, insight, analysis and opinion. We tell the stories that need telling, hold those in power to account, provoke national debate and spare no effort in pursuing the truth according to the highest standards of journalistic rigour. Ultimately, we help Australians know where they stand. |
 | The Cankao Xiaoxi was sponsored by Xinhua News Agency and edited and published by the reference news newspaper. It was founded in Ruijin, Jiangxi on November 7, 1931. It is the first circulation newspaper in the world and the fifth in the world. It has an average daily circulation of 3.4 million copies. Cankao Xiaoxi is the only newspaper in mainland China that can legally and directly publish foreign media. It selects the latest news and comments from all over the world, reports international and domestic news from all angles and perspectives, and opens a window for readers to see the world. In March 2018, he was awarded the Top 100 Newspapers of 2017. |
 | "Infzm" was founded in 1984, it was hosted by the director of Southern Newspaper Media Group. With the pursuit of “Here, Read China” and “Justice, Conscience, Love, and Rationality”, it is a profound influence and deep in the country. As the largest weekly news report in China, "Infzm" covers all major cities, with a subscription rate of over 68%, a high-quality readership, and over 78% of higher education. By 2017, it has been rated as “China’s best-selling newspaper” by China Post for 10 consecutive years. In China’s 500 Most Valuable Brands, it has been the only weekly newspaper in the top ten newspapers since the listing. |
 | Phoenix Satellite TV Holdings Limited is a global Chinese satellite TV channel. The host of Phoenix TV is from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Phoenix Satellite TV is one of the most influential media in the Chinese-language media. It is one of the first overseas TV media to receive the right to land in mainland China. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the mainland center is in Shenzhen. Phoenix ranked 11th in the list of China’s top 500 brands. In 2015, the brand value was 40.392 billion, ranking first in the non-government media and 52nd in the top 500. |
Supporting partners
 | Australia China Business Circle is an integrated media communication platform consisting of 6 major broadcast channels: monthly magazine, website, WeChat, Event, Newsletter and LinkedIn in Chinese and English. It is designed for the mutual benefits of Chinese and Australian investment partnerships, targeting the High Net Worth Individual Chinese communities in Australia and China. Australia China Business Circle provides investors with comprehensive media services, brand promotion and events as well as an investor club, to bridge Chinese investment to Australian projects. |
 | Headquartered in Beijing, Grouphorse has branches in major cities including Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Chengdu, Changsha, Hangzhou, and Wuhan. It is a United Nations vendor for language services registered at the highest level (ID: 496547) and a member of the United Nations Global Compact (ID: 109301). As one of China’s most prestigious international language service providers, Grouphorse has been the official language service provider for APEC summits, the Boao Forum for Asia, China International Import Expo, Translation Partner of 2018 Harvard China Education Symposium and the official sponsor for the XIX FIT World Congress. |
