CCBC 2023 Women in Business China Mission

The CCBC Women in Business China Mission is designed to serve the interests of Canadian women business leaders and/or representatives of women-led companies with a product or service to sell to China. China is the world’s largest and most dynamic consumer market, with a strong appreciation of high-quality Canadian products. Women-led businesses are under-represented in Canada-China trade, and this Mission is designed to give women-led businesses the resources, tools, and connections to succeed in the China market.

This October, CCBC will lead up to 12 delegates who are representatives of women-led businesses on a trade mission to Beijing, with the objective of engaging China connections to support exports.

Doing business in China successfully requires diligent cultivation of relationships that can be difficult from afar. After years of COVID restrictions, Canada-China travel has resumed, and it is an important moment to ramp up China market business development. The five-day Mission in Beijing will offer a series of activities, curated meetings, and business interactions to help delegates enhance their knowledge of business in China, broaden their in-market networks, and achieve their business goals.

This Mission is designed to serve the interests of Canadian women business leaders and/or representatives of women-led companies with a product to sell to the China market. To qualify, delegate companies should have a minimum of one year of operational experience and demonstrate active exporting to at least one market beyond Canada. Delegates and companies with no prior China market experience are welcome to apply.

This Mission is designed to serve the interests of Canadian women business leaders and/or representatives of women-led companies with a product to sell to the China market. To qualify, delegate companies should have a minimum of one year of operational experience and demonstrate active exporting to at least one market beyond Canada.

Delegates and companies with no prior China market experience are welcome to apply.

This Mission is open to CCBC members and non-members.

For the purposes of this program, a woman-led business is considered to be:

• A company whose founder or president/CEO is a woman (regardless of the gender of the actual delegate); or
• A company that has a male in the above positions but has a woman responsible for China market development who would participate in the Mission.

This program is inclusive of those who self-identify as women.