Happy Canada Day! It was a sincere pleasure for CCBC and CanCham Beijing to be able to bring together over 200 guests for a fabulous celebration of Canada’s 156th birthday last weekend.

Temperatures and spirits were soaring as we cracked Collective Arts beers, Canadian wine courtesy of D2C, and Niagara Ice wine from Helia Winery on the terrace of the Kerry Hotel, under an 8 by 10-meter Canadian flag. Guests once again, jumped on the PEI Cows Ice Cream freezer and caught up during the cocktail hour was generously sponsored by CPKC.

Productions like this are truly only possible with the support of our perennial Lead Sponsors – as mentioned in the opening remarks on the evening, these are some of Canada’s most established, most respected, and most deeply committed companies to the Canada-China bilateral relationship. They are BMO Financial Group, Manulife Financial, Power Corporation of Canada, and Royal Bank of Canada.

The story of Canada and China trade and investment cannot be told without these companies, and we are deeply appreciative of their continued investment in the people-to-people ties that reinforce the foundations of Sino-Canadian cooperation.