Introduction
Functional Characteristic
Pudong-Shanghai Export Processing Zone: advantages

Introduction

In 1996 Agency for China achieved its efforts aimed to support the Italian companies to face Chinese market. This goal has been reached by the opening of Lombardy Building.
Lombardy Building is a Business Center with unique functional characteristics.
Besides the common facilities of a commercial center, the presence of both public and private istitutions creates a precious and unique sinergy. Moreover, the position of the Building facilitate the task, as Pudong is one of the most dynamic and interesting areas of China.
The Chinese market develops very quickly and requires a constant attention and monitoring, with a presence and cost that not all the companies can afford.
Lombardy Building in this sense represents the ideal opportunity for Italian companies, especially for the small ones, which otherwise cannot afford these costs and consequently would lose this opportunity.
Anyway, the advantage is not only for the Italian companies, but also for the Chinese counterparts, which can have, in one and the same place, an overall view of Made in Italy products and in the meantime the knowledge of the channels to get into the Italian market.

Functional Characteristics

Lombardy Building is a six floors building of 10.000 square meters.
The ground floor exhibits Made in Italy products. Besides a permanent exhibition of Italian typical products, there are periodical short-term exhibitions which will offer to Chinese operators an updated and concrete opportunity to know the best of Made in Italy. At the ground floor are also located the offices of Agency for China, the Conference Room and the Business Centre, where is also available a videocatalogue about Lombardy Building's activities.
The first floor houses the rep offices of various companies among which ItalChina Tourism Development Travel Agency, which assists Italian operators in their journeys. The other three floors are reserved for rep offices of those companies which joined Agency for China. At the sixth floor take place wharehouses and laboratories.
The Building is provided with tecnologically up-to-date communication devices, and offers the following services: secretarial, interpreters, commercial broking and meeting organization.

Pudong- Shanghai Export Processing Zone: advantages

Lombardy Building is situated in one of the most dynamic areas of Chinese market. Shanghai, with about 13 million inhabitants and a quite high standard of living, represents a very interesting potential market. The biggest foreign companies are settled here because of the modern infrastructure of this city, and their presence creates a lot of opportunities for Chinese economy.
The creation in Pudong-Shanghai of an Export Processing Zone (a production and processing area for products to be exported) attracted a lot of foreign investments directed to China, and Shanghai is now a financial and economic centre that competes with Hong Kong and Singapore. Now in Pudong are settled the biggest multinationals which operate in China. In fact, there are a lot of industrial and commercial J/V, and the area benefits from tax relief. In this context is situated Lombardy Building.

Agency for China during these years supported the small and medium enterprises letting them understand the importance to open a Rep Office inside Lombardy Building and to operate in this market through a direct control, according to the development of a business strategy.
At the moment there are 48 Representative Offices inside the Building, and other 10 companies are preparing the required documents.
To chose Lombardy Building as the headquarters for your firm is the right choice in terms of visibility on Chinese territory, of accomplishment of the facilites offered and assistance for all the required procedures to develop your own presence in China.