@ptlas,
I think people sometimes underestimate the political influence side of things in terms of Fluence's business opportunities. With state-owned enterprise partners, it is also hard to separate business from government.
The Israeli - China relationship is of national economic significance, coming under the banner of the Belt and Road strategy.
The Chinese government sees Israel as a great place to source world class technology to improve China, so are willing to invest in Israeli - China business relationships.
The Yiyang - Israeli history dates back to the 1930's, when a Yiyang born Chinese diplomat (Fengshan Ho) granted Chinese Visa's to Austrian Jews during Hitler's Nazi occupation of Austria, creating an escape for thousands of Jews. He is still referenced in Yiyang - Israeli relations, and Yiyang is one of only about 10 places in China to establish an Israeli business park.
Without the support of the Yiyang Government, I'm not sure that there would be a strong relationship with Hunan Kaitian, as the initial deal for the first Hunan Kaitian MABR demonstration plant was signed at a Yiyang - Israeli business matchmaking summit, and was to be located at Xielingang, under the jurisdiction of the Yiyang Government. Yiyang then turned the Kaitian-Fluence partnership into a tripartite relationship and gave their stamp of approval for MABR after testing. The influence of the Yiyang Government in opening doors to the Hunan Provincial Government cannot be underestimated, as we have already seen visits by Hunan Provincial Government leaders to the Xielingang MABR plant for approval. This will lead to opportunities for Hunan Kaitian to sell MABR into outside of the Yiyang prefecture.
The economic and tax incentives tied to building the assembly plant in Yiyang are also crucial to the assembly plant being financially viable. Then the environmental ministry of Yiyang has also approved MABR technology, and will give approval for new environmental remediation projects built within the Yiyang prefecture.
Also related, the main factory in Changzhou, Jiangsu is located at the first established Israeli - China business park, and Fluence have also been supported by the local Wujin government there with financial incentives and are gaining national attention due to this.
I have provided some additional info below and highlighted the bits I think are interesting.
Yiyang, Hunan related info:Yiyang High-tech Zone ranks among the top three industrial parks in the province2019/11/1
The Hunan Provincial Industrial Park Construction Leading Group recently announced the results of the 2018 annual evaluation of the provincial park. Yiyang High-tech Zone has a comprehensive score of 125.75 in 133 industrial parks (including national and provincial parks), ranking among the top three. From a few years ago, in the middle position, to the continuous expansion in recent years, Yiyang High-tech Zone has surrendered the arrogant answer.
The comprehensive evaluation was led by the Provincial Industrial Park Construction Leading Group and based on the “Comprehensive Evaluation Method for Provincial and Above Industrial Parks in Hunan Province”, based on the comprehensive evaluation of statutory data provided by the Provincial Bureau of Statistics. The evaluation index system is divided into five parts: development quality, development effectiveness, development motivation, resource environment, and park management. The total production value of the park's unit land area, the park's GDP and growth rate, the actual use of foreign capital, the import and export amount and the increase The comprehensive evaluation of 30 indicators such as speed, unit-scale industrial added value energy consumption reduction rate, and park management system reform and innovation. "This time, we are among the top three in the province. It is the scientific guidance for us to seize the development opportunities, strengthen the scientific planning of the top-level planning, and fully promote the high-quality development of industrial project construction." The person in charge of the Industrial Development and Technology Bureau of Yiyang High-tech Zone introduced.
Go all out to attract investment. In recent years, Yiyang High-tech Zone has made every effort to grasp the introduction of investment projects of three “Top 500”, listed companies and leading enterprises in the industry. The main leaders of the District Working Committee and the Management Committee regard investment promotion as the “first menu” to promote the industrial development of the park. They often lead teams to Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, and focus on connecting Huawei and Cedar Group.
High-quality industrial projects, the focus is on the continuous expansion of project reserves. Focusing on the chain-building, chain extension and strong chain of leading industries such as equipment manufacturing, electronic information and new materials, through the combination of investment introduction and support for innovation and transformation, we have vigorously cultivated a group of core competitiveness, good market prospects and economy. High-tech enterprises that return.Focus on the construction of key projects. We will continue to optimize the business environment around actions such as “Industry Project Construction Year” and “Park Conference War”. One enterprise, one policy, accurate assistance, and solve specific problems such as enterprise financing difficulties and employment difficulties. Accelerate the progress of land approval, land acquisition and demolition, combine the special struggles of eliminating black and evil, thoroughly investigate the people and things that undermine the construction of the project, and strive to create a good external environment for the construction of key projects. Give play to the role of government funds, set up a strategic emerging industry development support fund, innovation and entrepreneurship angel fund, and strengthen the SME financing guarantee company. From January to September this year, the industrial tax revenue increased by 68.59% year-on-year.
Efforts will be made to build a digital economy industrial park, an academician expert industrial park and a
China-Israel science and technology industrial park. Since 2018, the park has won two second prizes for national scientific and technological progress and one third prize for provincial scientific and technological progress through independent research and development and scientific research and innovation.
Actively integrated into the national “Belt and Road” strategy, the total volume of foreign trade imports and exports increased by 204.5% from January to September this year. In the next step, we will focus on building a “one center and three bases” to create a digital economy innovation incubation center, a digital economy industrial base, a digital manufacturing demonstration base, and a Furong Cloud Valley. It is expected that by 2021, a number of emerging digital economy formats will be created.
The proportion of economic value added to regional GDP is expected to reach more than 35%.In addition, Yiyang High-tech Zone has built a strategy of “opening up” with innovation and innovation around the four cores of strength, intelligence, vitality and charm. Comprehensively deepen the reform, this year set up an administrative examination and approval bureau, and currently there are 284 economic management authorities to achieve the completion of the park. Solidly advancing the "one thing at a time" reform, the first batch of 48 issues have been implemented to carry out business, creating a good atmosphere for the development of the park.
-- Continuous release of policy dividends.
Yiyang High-tech Zone has issued a series of policies for benefiting enterprises. The “Ten Regulations on Encouraging Industrial Investment to Promote Industrial Development” is very attractive in terms of “staying rewards”: the whole city (including administrative headquarters, production headquarters, financial settlement headquarters) , sales headquarters) relocation to the park's high-tech enterprises (or small and medium-sized enterprises), and the original enterprise annual output value of more than 50 million yuan,
taxes of 3 million yuan (except for export tax rebate), according to the year before the relocation of the enterprise 35% of the total tax paid is awarded to the settlement, and the total amount of individual enterprise awards does not exceed 8 million yuan. A single project outside the city will be relocated to a high-tech enterprise that meets the requirements of “replenishing the chain, increasing the chain, and strengthening the chain”, and the enterprise with an annual output value of more than 50 million yuan in the second year of production and a tax of 3 million yuan (excluding the export tax rebate) According to the 30% of the tax paid in the high-tech zone in the second year of the enterprise's production, the reward for the settlement is given, and the total amount of the individual enterprise's reward is not more than 6 million yuan. The world's top 500, China's top 500, and the private top 500 (subject to the Chinese version of Fortune and the National Federation of Industry and Commerce). Enterprises investing in industrial projects in the park and the total investment in fixed assets is more than 100 million yuan, giving them a reward. The maximum reward for a single project is no more than 12 million yuan, 10 million yuan, and 6 million yuan.
"Yiyang High-tech Zone supports a number of measures for industrial transformation and upgrading and quality improvement", which provides financial support for investors to lease factories, resettled, relocated, promoted industrial support, rent, administrative fees, personnel training, land use, Financial support, social security, technical reform, financial and taxation contributions, etc. The park also adopts a variety of flexible cooperation modes: the investors will acquire land and build factories, and Yiyang High-tech Zone will give preferential treatment in terms of project investment intensity and tax return in terms of fee payment, and provide financial support for project construction. The investor rents the park factory and supporting service houses at preferential prices. The park will build a factory building according to the special requirements of the investor, and the investor will lease at a preferential price. The technology-based incubator company has settled in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base of the Eastern Industrial Park. The park provides incubator plants and incubator support at preferential prices.
Accelerate the improvement of the ecological environment quality of the jurisdiction of the municipal high-tech sub-bureau2019/9/30
On September 29, the listing ceremony of the High-tech Sub-bureau of the Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau was held. Deputy Secretary of the Working Committee of Yiyang High-tech Zone, Director of the Management Committee Zhou Lang, member of the Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee Xiang Rong attended.
Vertical environmental protection is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee and the State Council in the new era and under the new situation. It is a fundamental reform of the local environmental protection management system. As the dispatching agency of the Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau, the Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau High-tech Sub-bureau takes this institutional reform as an opportunity to play a functional role under the leadership of the District Working Committee and the Management Committee in accordance with the dual mechanism, and to
plan the ecological environmental protection work of Yiyang High-tech Zone. We will resolutely win the three major battles of pollution prevention and control, implement laws and regulations such as the Environmental Protection Law and the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law,
accelerate the improvement of the ecological environment quality of the jurisdiction, and provide a more powerful ecological environment support for the high-quality economic and social development of Yiyang High-tech Zone.
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Changzhou, Jiangsu related:Create a distribution center and bridgehead for cooperation with national resources2019-10-31
From October 29th to 30th, the
inspector of the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Xiang Xiangping, came to the Changzhou Innovation Park to further understand the construction of the park and the cooperation and exchanges between China and Israel. District leaders Li Lin and Xu Zhiguo participated in the survey.
On the afternoon of the 29th, Yan Xiangping inspected the Changzhou Innovation Park Exhibition Hall, the China Innovation Energy Innovation Center and the Natali Remote ECG Monitoring Center in the Changzhou Innovation Park.
With the latest multimedia technology, the Changzhou Innovation Park Pavilion will showcase the construction process of the
China-Israel Changzhou Innovation Park, the latest Israeli technology and the cooperation between China and Israel. As the first innovative demonstration park signed by the Chinese and Israeli governments in China, the park has accelerated planning and construction and building an innovative platform in recent years. In particular, after adjusting to the “Kechuang Corridor” in Changzhou Science and Education City, it plans to build a 330-mu area as a construction. The new start-up area and the 5 square-kilometer area will serve as a park construction and expansion area to better gather scientific and technological resources, R&D talents and high-level innovation and entrepreneurship teams, and promote the joint development of China-Israel Changzhou Innovation Park and Changzhou Science and Education City and the integration of Wujin High-tech Zone. Yan Xiangping affirmed the cooperation model and construction achievements of Changzhou Innovation Park, and expressed appreciation for the park's emphasis on building an innovative enterprise service system.
In the exhibition hall of the National Innovation Energy Innovation Center, Xiao Xiangping learned in detail about the work content of the Innovation Center and the demand for high-end talents. Yan Xiangping pointed out that it is necessary to give full play to the policy advantages, to fully serve the talent needs of the innovation center, and to improve the social influence of the innovation center.
The Natali Remote ECG Monitoring Center of the South Hospital of Wujin People's Hospital signed a cooperation agreement with many hospitals such as Xuzhou Cancer Hospital, Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine and Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University with the support of Changzhou Innovation Park. The service covers more than 20 cities across the country. After understanding the operation of the remote ECG monitoring center, Xiaoxiang Ping affirmed the cooperation mode of enterprise telemedicine services.
On the morning of the 30th, Xiao Xiangping went to the
West Taihu Science and Technology Industrial Park to inspect the Israel E3 Incubator,
Fulangshi Water Technology (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. and Zhengtu Xinshi (Jiangsu) Technology Co., Ltd.
At the subsequent symposium, Xiao Xiangping listened to the work report of the China-Israel Changzhou Innovation Park this year.
He pointed out that the relevant leaders of China and Israel attach great importance to the construction of the park. In recent years, the park has maintained a national leading position in terms of cooperation mechanism, cooperation mode, and cooperation results, and its work results are worthy of recognition. In the next step, the park should continue to be the pioneer and flagship of China-Israel cooperation, make full use of the cooperation platform between the two governments and jointly build the planned brand, and continuously expand the cooperation field. We must do a good job in communication and communication with Israel, pay more attention to the demands of Israel, focus on China's technological needs, and do a good job of connecting with Israel's innovative resources to achieve a win-win situation. We must base ourselves on the advantages of early start, rich experience, and developed manufacturing.
We stand at the height of cooperation between the two countries, boldly try and innovate mechanisms, and build a distribution center and bridgehead for cooperation with national resources.Li Lin, deputy mayor and secretary of the district party committee, said that the
district committee and district government will go all out to make the work of the construction of the Changzhou Innovation Park in China and the province more solid in accordance with the
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Feng Shan Ho - Israeli & Yiyang ties:
FENG SHAN HODr Feng Shan Ho was a Chinese diplomat posted to Vienna, Austria. After Austria's annexation by the Nazis, Ho issued thousands of visas to Austrian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi Persecution. Yad Vashem in Jerusalem awarded Feng-Shan Ho the title of ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ for his humanitarian courage.
Dr. Feng Shan Ho was born in 1901, in rural Yiyang in Hunan Province, China. His name Feng Shan means ‘Phoenix on the Mountain.’ His family was poor and his father died when he was seven, but he made the most of his education and became a diplomat. In the spring of 1937, he was appointed first secretary to the Chinese Legation (High Commission or Embassy) in Vienna, Austria. Because of his ease in German and his dynamic personality, he was very popular, and was often asked to speak on Chinese culture and customs.
A year after Ho arrived in Vienna, the annexation of Austria to Germany – the Anschluss – took place and almost immediately anti-semitic acts began to take place. Less than a month later, the first Austrian Jews were deported to Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps.Many of Ho’s friends in Viennese society were Jewish. Lilith-Sylvia Doron met Ho accidentally as both watched Hitler entering Vienna. ‘Ho, who knew my family, accompanied me home,’ she said later. ‘He claimed that, thanks to his diplomatic status, they [the Nazis] would not dare harm us as long as he remained in our home. Ho continued to visit our home on a permanent basis to protect us from the Nazis.’ As things became increasingly difficult for Jews in Austria, many tried to leave the country, but with many nations enforcing strict immigration policies, it was necessary to obtain visas before they were allowed to leave. Having been turned down by other consulates, many approached the Chinese Legation in desperation.
Unlike his fellow-diplomats, Ho issued visas to Shanghai to all requesting them, even to those wishing to travel elsewhere but needing a visa to leave Nazi territory. Many of those helped by Ho did indeed reach Shanghai, either by boat from Italy or overland via the Soviet Union. Many others made use of their visas to reach alternative destinations, including the Philippines and Cuba. Among them was Lilith Doron’s brother, Karl. He had been arrested and taken to Dachau, but was released thanks to a visa issued by the Chinese consulate on Ho’s instructions. Doron and her brother were able to leave Vienna in 1939. The number of visas Ho issued is not known, but it probably amounts to thousands. Around 70,000 Austrian Jews perished under the Nazis.
Consul General Ho’s immediate supervisor, Chen Jia, the Chinese ambassador in Berlin, was adamantly opposed to giving visas to Jews. He wanted good diplomatic relations with Germany and did not want to undermine Hitler’s anti-semitic policy. Having learned that the Chinese Consul in Vienna was issuing large numbers of visas to Jews,
Chen Jia called Ho by telephone and ordered him to discontinue this practice. But Ho countered by saying that the Chinese foreign ministry’s orders were to maintain a liberal policy in this regard. Chen Jia sent his subordinate to Vienna on the pretext of investigating rumours that the Consul was selling visas. The investigator arrived unannounced in Vienna, but upon finding no evidence of wrongdoing, returned to Berlin.
While Ho continued to maintain an active diplomatic life under German rule, he had to be very careful about jeopardising his career. The Nazis confiscated his consulate building on the grounds that it was Jewish-owned. When Ho asked the Chinese government for funds to relocate the consul, the foreign ministry refused his request, claiming that war-torn China had no funds to spare.
He was forced to find smaller facilities, paying the expenses out of his own pocket.After a long diplomatic career, Ho retired in 1973, and died in 1997, at the age of 96.
It was only after his death that evidence by survivors who benefited from Ho’s aid began to be known. After carefully evaluating the case, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem awarded Feng-Shan Ho the title of ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ for his humanitarian courage.
Bohai rate Yiyang Municipal Committee delegation visited Israel, Austria, Norway2019-08-26
At the invitation of the city of Petitikova, the city of Dekroix, Austria and the city of Stavanger, Norway, approved by the provincial party committee, from August 25 to September 3, the secretary of the municipal party committee, Yu Hai, visited the delegation of Yiyang Municipal Committee. Israel, Austria, Norway.
The delegation of the
Yiyang Municipal Party Committee's delegation mainly serves to serve the country's overall diplomacy, docking the "One Belt, One Road" call, responding to the strategic deployment of the provincial party committee and the provincial government's "innovation leading, opening up", deepening the friendly exchanges between the city and the sister cities. The project cooperates to promote and promote the He Fengshan brand of international justice people, and use the special historical origins of friendly exchanges between Yiyang and Norway to carry out friendship city activities, promote project construction, and help create “opening Yiyang” and “innovation Yiyang”. Yi Jun, secretary of the working committee of Yiyang High-tech Zone, and other officials visited.
The city of Petatikova, Israel, is an international friendship city of Yiyang, officially concluded in September 2011. With a history of 127 years, the city is the fifth largest city in Israel with a population of about 200,000, making it the city with the highest population migration rate in Israel. Petati Cova has a world-leading medical technology level. After the city and Pei City are well established, the city center hospital uses the government's low-interest loans to cooperate with the Israeli Schneider Children's Medical Center to exchange technicians and purchase large-scale high-tech medical care. Equipment, improved service capabilities. In addition, the city's new industries are developed, foreign exchanges are active, culture and education are also in a leading position, and the city has successfully carried out exchanges of exchanges with young students. The city has three high schools and currently has approximately 45,000 students, one of the top 10 schools in Israel. In addition, there are more than 300 educational research institutions, which run through the whole process of early childhood education to high school education, and attach great importance to the educational research of disabled people.
It is reported that
during the visit, the delegation of Yiyang Municipal Committee will be invited to participate in the He Fengshan commemoration held by the Israel Jewish Holocaust Memorial Hall. He was invited to visit the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Embassy in Israel, Austria and Norway to visit key enterprises and invite outstanding overseas Hunan. Business representatives attended the 9th Global Xiangshang Conference held in October and the 3rd “Green Agriculture Digital Village” Internet Conference held in our city.
In Israel, we will attend the signing of the investment intention of the MABR Integrated Wastewater Treatment Equipment Manufacturing Plant in Yiyang High-tech Zone and Israel Fulangshi Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd.; and promote the exchange of personnel between the Central Hospital and the Israeli Schneider Children's Medical Center. Training and settled in the China-Israel Friendship Hospital project in Yiyang High-tech Zone.
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@ywtoh I think Henry may have attended the signing ceremony instead of Tony Hargrave, had he not had a clash with the quarterly call and a speaking engagement in Washington during the same period. I find it fascinating that such a small company like Fluence that is barely a blip on the ASX, is a big part of the foreign relations between Israel and China. This may be a case study one day in how a foreign company goes from a startup to a unicorn in China.