In China

HKTDC Education & Careers Expo 2013

Targets academic and commercial establishments looking to recruit students and employees, as well as students and job seekers looking for information on education, careers and training.

Date: Jan 31-Feb 3

Venue: Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), Hong Kong

Website: www.chinaexhibition.com

China International Fishing Tackle Trade Exhibition, Beijing

Dedicated to globalizing the trade of fishing products and outdoor gear.

Date: Feb 23-25

Venue: New China International Exhibition Center

Website: www.chinaexhibition.com

China International Digital Printers & Engravers & Signage & LED Expo, Guangzhou

With more than 50,000 detailed databases from domestic and overseas professional buyers, the expo, along with authoritative industry website www.dpes.cn, provides value added services to exhibitors before, during and after the show, helping them to expand market share and performance. The expo is an influential communication platform for the sign equipment industry.

Date: Feb 25-28

Venue: Poly World Trade Center Expo, Guangzhou

Website: www.chinasignexpo.com

Conferences & Meetings

In Europe

France - Export Insight Visit, Paris

You will join other companies in a range of export-encouraging activities as well as gaining an insight into the support networks that we are available overseas to help achieve your export goals and ambitions.

Date: Jan 30-Feb 1

Venue: Paris

Website: www.embltd.co.uk/ukti

Germany International Toy Fair, Germany

International Toy Fair (Spielwarenmesse) is an important event for the education and training sector. TAP support is available for this event. UKTI's Tradeshow Access Programme (TAP) provides grant support for eligible small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to attend trade shows overseas.

Date: Jan 31-Feb 4

Venue: Nuremburg, Germany

Website: www.ukti.gov.uk/tap

Spring Fair International, England

Going to Spring Fair International and looking to develop your giftware/interior products business in the Nordic region? Meet UKTI staff from Norway, Sweden and Denmark and find out more about developing your business in these markets. Staff from UKTI's teams in Norway, Sweden and Denmark will attend, including taking part in the speed-dating event arranged for Feb 4.

Date: Feb 4-Feb 5

Venue: NEC, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Website: www.ukti.gov.uk

International Financial Management, England

Aims to provide delegates with an understanding of the international financial environment in which companies operate and looks at the way businesses source, manage and invest funds. It contains the following courses: Structures, business & financial risks and implications of common routes to international markets; sources of finance for international business and expansion; planning, managing and controlling international financial performance and success; risk and risk management in international trade; and international tax planning and compliance.

Date: Feb 26

Venue: Crowne Plaza London-Gatwick Airport, Langley Drive, Crawley, RH11 7SX, South East, United Kingdom

Website: www.ukti.gov.uk

11th Annual European Financial Services Conference, Brussels

Bringing together about 400 senior bankers and financial policymakers to discuss issues affecting European and global financial markets.

Date: Jan 31

Venue: ING Auditorium, Avenue Marnix 24, Brussels

Website: www.forum-europe.com/events/

Culture

In China

NCPA Original Drama: Wangfujing, Beijing

This large-scale drama, originally produced by NCPA after more than two years of painstaking development, features a grand panoramic view and showcases the hundred-year vicissitudes of Wangfujing, China's No.1 commercial street. It gives a vivid image of Beijing people and their spirit.

Date: Feb 7-Feb 16

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Website: www.chncpa.org

Things From the Gallery Warehouse 5 Group Exhibition, Shanghai

ShanghART is pleased to present Things from the Warehouse 5 as part of a continuing program. Since 2009 a series of exhibitions have made it possible for large-scale installations that have been in storage to be viewed by the general public.

Date: Jan 20-Mar 4

Venue: ShanghART H-space, Bldg 18, No.50 Moganshan Rd., Shanghai

Website: www.shanghartgallery.com

National Theatre of China Big Family Classics in NCPA, Beijing

The Big Family is a story about gratitude, resentment, life, death, love and hatred shown through a mixture of history and reality. It is impressive and thought provoking.

Date: Jan 17-Feb 3

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Website: www.chncpa.org

Chinese National Orchestra Concert, Beijing

2013 New Year's Blessing.

Date: Jan 25

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Website: www.chncpa.org

Opera: Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Beijing

NCPA's production of Offenbach's opera.

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Dates: Jan 31-Feb 3

Website: www.chncpa.org

The National Little Birch Tree Dance Troupe of Russia China Tour

"This is a birch on the land," the girls sing as they dance, creating an atmosphere of spring and the romance of summer, which people associate with boundless fields and birch trees in Russia.

Date: Feb 5-Feb 8

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Website: http://www.chncpa.org

Culture

In Europe

Eating and drinking, London

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London possesses one of the most comprehensive and important collections of Chinese art dating from 3000 BC to the present time. The China gallery at the V&A is organized according to living, eating and drinking, temple and worship, burial, ruling and collecting. It presents some background history on eating and drinking in China, using objects from the collections and quotes from original sources.

Date: On display

Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Website: www.vam.ac.uk

Floating Clouds and Feudal Commodifications: Family, Law and Reform in the Contemporary PRC, London

This talk explores some of the key issues surrounding the principal changes in family law in the People's Republic of China that have occurred during the post-Deng period.

Date: Feb 4

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings, University of London

Website: www.soas.ac.uk

Rethinking Development: China's Development 'Model', Jennifer Hsu, London

The Development Studies Seminars take place weekly during terms one and two with speakers representing the full range of development-related disciplines including economics, political science, anthropology, sociology and history. Entry is free and seminars are open to the public.

Date: Feb 19

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings, University of London

Website: www.soas.ac.uk

Events can be sent to: events@mail.chinadailyuk.com

(China Daily 01/18/2013 page31)