拥有英国一片土地 分享欧洲无限商机

近日在钓鱼台国宾馆召开的中国民营经济“走出去”国际发展战略暨“金融安全与服务”研讨会上，中国森 华集团与英国沛尔集团举行了项目签约仪式，这将标志着中国国家副总理李克强于2011年1月代表中国政府与英国政府财政大臣奥斯本签订了《中英经济合作备忘录》正式启动。

     在中英两国建交四十周年之际，中国国家总理温家宝、副总理李克强、中共中央政治局常委李长春、全国人大委员长吴邦国等党和国家领导人先后访问英国和欧洲。中英两国的关系日渐稳定成熟，两国间建立了总理年度会晤机制和经济财金对话、战略对话和高级别人文交流机制“三大支柱”。自英国两位前首相丘吉尔和希思推动实现中英关系正常化以来，中英关系正站在新的起点、面临新的发展机遇，这都为两国进一步加强经贸合作，同时也为英国沛尔集团与中国森华集团等有实力的中英企业开展经贸合作创造了新机遇。

     根据两国政府2015年双边贸易协定，中英贸易额将突破1000亿美元，为迎接这一局面的到来，英国政府批准汇丰银行于今年4月18日在伦敦发行了第一支人民币债券，总规模为10亿元人民币，当天英国财政大臣奥斯本宣布正式启动“伦敦人民币离岸业务中心建设计划”。目前伦敦已拥有全球人民币外汇交易的26%，截止去年底统计，伦敦的客户存款和银行同业人民币存款总量超过1090亿元人民币，其中客户人民币存款达到350亿元，据统计，现在每天中英贸易额已超过15亿英镑，这就为今后10年至20年中英贸易发展提供了理想的金融服务条件，并为中英两国经贸合作注入了活力。面对新形势，坚持从战略高度和长远角度规划和推动中英经贸关系的未来发展，对中英双方都至关重要，这不仅是中英政府的重要国策，也是中英企业面向未来的历史机遇。
中国已经成为世界第二大经济体，中国的外汇储备和对外债权都是全球第一。但全球金融危机发生以后，欧洲陷入严重的债务危机，并且随着希腊、西班牙等国债务问题的逐渐加剧，欧洲的前景越发模糊。但中国随着中国经济的发展，对外投资迅速增长，中国银行的跨境人民币业务结算量已超过1.7万亿元，其中内地机构办理的跨境人民币结算量约为7800亿元，如加上在香港的24家中国在海外的金融机构，为客户办理的跨境人民币结算业务达一万亿元，中国和世界其他国家，在快速增长的中国对外投资中，都有获益。

     鉴于以上诸多因素，中国投资英国似乎已计日可待。

     在上述中英备忘录项下，《沛尔森华国际贸易中心项目》得到了中英最高层中央政府的支持，该项目总占地6.5英亩(折合16公顷)，建设面积为23万平方米，总投资预计50亿人民币，可供近千家商户入驻。沛尔森华国际贸易中心将坐落在英格兰西北部地区的威勒尔半岛利物浦港伯肯黑德码头附近。该地区是英国和整个欧共体贸易的“门户”，有25万2千多家企业，其中有3千家外资企业在这里落驻。国际商流、物流、资金流、信息流给即将建设的沛尔森华国际贸易中心入驻企业向欧洲发展，向纵深拓展欧洲乃至全球国际市场带来巨大战略优势和无限商机。

     Nowadays, on the Chinese private enterprise’ international development strategy of ‘going out’ and ‘Financial security and service’ Seminar held in Tiaoyutai state guesthouse, Chinese SamWa group singed an joint venture agreement with UK Peel group, which symbolized the formal launch of signed by China Vice-Premier Li Keqiang and UK Chancellor of Exchequer Osborne in January 2011.
     At the China-UK forty anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations, China party and state leaders, including China Premier Wen Jiabao, Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, Standing committee of Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee Li Changchun, Chairman of the National People’s Congress Wu Bangguo, visited UK and Europe successively. The bilateral relationship is getting stable and mature, and three pillars between two countries have been founded, including premier annual meeting mechanism, economic and financial dialogue and strategic dialogue, and high-level cultural exchanges. Since two former UK Prime Minister Churchill and Health promoted and realized the normalization of the China-UK relationship, the bilateral relationship got a new start and faced new development opportunities, all of which further enhanced the bilateral economy and trade cooperation, also created new opportunities for the capable China and UK enterprises, such as Samwa and Peel, to carry out economy and trade cooperation.
      According to the 2015 bilateral trade agreement signed by two countries, the China-UK trade volume will exceed USD$100 billion. To deal with such a big volume, UK permitted SHBC to issue the first Renminbi bonds in London 18th April this year, and the total volume of the bonds is RMB 1 billion. Also on the same day, UK Chancellor of Exchequer Osborne announce the official start of the ‘London RMB offshore business center construction plan'. Nowadays, London has taken up 26% of the global RMB foreign exchange transaction. By the end of the last year, the total of London customer deposit and the interbank RMB deposit exceeded RMB109 billion, including customer RMB deposit of 35 billion. According to statistic, the daily volume of China-UK trade has exceeded 1.5 billion now, which supplied ideal financial service condition for the development of China-UK trade in the future 10 or 20 years, and input vitality into the economy and trade cooperation between China and UK. Facing the new situation, it’s crucial for the two sides to plan and promote the future China-UK economy and trade relation development based on the strategic height and long-term perspective, which is not only the important national policy, but also the historic opportunities of the China and UK enterprises in the future.
     China has become the second economic body, whose foreign exchange reserve and foreign debt are both the NO. one in the world. However, since the global financial crisis broke out, Europe fell into the serious debt crisis, and with the intensification of the debt crisis of Greece and Spain, Europe’s outlook got more and more gloomy. On the other hand, with the development of China’s economy, China’s foreign investment gets rapid increase, and the cross-border RMB settlement volume of Bank of China has exceeded 1,700 billion, including about 780 billion of RMB cross-border settlement of interior body. If plus with the 24 China abroad financial bodies in Hong Kong, the volume of customer cross-border RMB settlement gets 1,000 billion, which benefits both China and other countries of the world during the rapid increase of China’s foreign investment.
      In view of all the elements above, the day when China makes investment in UK seems close at hand.
     Under the China-UK Memorandum, receives the supports from bilateral governments of highest level. The project covers an area of 6.5 acre (16 hectare), with a total floor area of 230,000 sq. metres, and the total investment will be RMB 5 billion, with a capacity for almost 1,000 business occupiers. The Peel&Samwa ITC will be located in Wirral, the Northwest of England within Birkenhead Docks of Liverpool Port. This area is the ‘gateway’ of UK and the whole Europe, where accommodates over 252,000 enterprises, including 3,000 overseas-funded enterprises. International business flow, logistic, capital flow and information flow brings tremendous strategic advantage and unlimited business opportunities for the enterprises, who plan to enter the to be constructed ITC, to deeply explore the Europe and even the global market                                                 
Ma Yi, from Legal Affairs Office of the State Council, believes that China enterprises still have a lot of problems to solve in making foreign investment, such as the supports from business circle，financial institution，law service institution，regulatory authority，and so on. A senior management personnel from the People’s Bank of China believes that the political crisis is the first problem in foreign investment, and the relatively high investment crisis appears in the area where China’s law can not take effect.