This week marks the 3rd week of the #ShanghaiLP Cohort 4 journey. We invited one of the four participants, Ms Megan Gathercole from Group Eight Media to join the show to share her experience in China, at the Landing Pad, and particularly the very industry - filmmaking, and various exciting initiatives between Australia and China that she's been working on, from a practical perspective.

To learn more about the Landing Pad or lodge your own application, go to AustraliaUnlimited.com/LandingPads. To share your thoughts and make an enquiry, email us at [email protected].

The Australian Landing Pad in Shanghai welcomed the 4th regular cohort of four entrepreneurs on 22-Jan and seven more delegates attending the first China Bootcamp on 29-Jan that Austrade co-delivers in partnership with PTL Group.

The China Bootcamp is a signature program initially implemented by PTL Group for Israeli startups prepping their founders and managers for China market entry. Through the partnership between Austrade and PTL, this time, the Bootcamp becomes an iterated offering at the #ShanghaiLP in parallel with and ramps up to the regular 90-day residencies. This 1-week intensive program aims to provide Australian entrepreneurs who're interested in the China market a quick validation of the market context and a solid ramping-up approach for their market entry strategies and roadmaps for next steps.

If you are interested in participating in an industry-specific Bootcamp in the future, express your interest and vote for your industry sector by emailing u [...]

Australia has shown its leadership role in the international community in adopting and standardising the Blockchain technology alongside China as this powerhouse nation has shown unprecedented passion from government, tech giants, to investors on this particular technology that has application scenes rooted in but far beyond the financial services sector.

Working on supporting Australian Blockchain technology from its early days, Austrade China Financial Services Team has led multiple missions to and from China to enhance the collaboration between the two countries on Blockchain. The very person behind multiple missions and sound collaboration, Adam Gong, joined the show to share trends and actions in this exciting area.

For more info regarding the event mentioned in the show - APAC Blockchain Conference 2018 in Melbourne, please access apacblockchain.com.au.

As the new Austrade China Innovation Team Leader, Dane shared his new year resolution for the team on delivering more practical guides as 'landing toolkit' for Australian innovators, businesses, and researchers. Daniel shared his undertaking on a 'Leap to China' guidebook for Australian entrepreneurs to tap the China market with a sneak peek of some landing tips in the publication.

What's your New Year Resolution professionally? What topics do you want to learn more from us in the upcoming year? Email us with your opinions at [email protected].

Alibaba Group's TMall (Global) platform is one of the world's largest cross-border e-commerce platforms running a series of major sales events throughout the year including the '11-11 Shopping Festival' that recently created yet another record of topping US$25b gross sales within the 24 hours of 11-Nov-2017.

Joining the show, Ms Phoebe Kung, from Alibaba's TMall Import & Export Government Affairs Department, shared the concept, business models and future tendencies of 'Cross-border E-Commerce' and tips for Australian businesses to further stand out and succeed leveraging the power of e-commerce.

Alibaba's Australia and New Zealand Office is located at Level 2, 411 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC and can be contacted via phone at +61-3-9046-5788. You may also go to Austrade.gov.au website or call 13 28 78 (in Australia) to seek Austrade local services that may suit [...]

As one of six Australian Counsellors for Industry, Innovation and Science overseas, Ms Joanna Bunting from the Australian Embassy in Beijing joined the show to share the latest updates on research and innovation collaboration endeavours with China and practical guides for researchers to consider working with Chinese partners with the support under the National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA) alongside other frameworks.

For more info on NISA, visit Innovation.gov.au. To learn more about research funding and supporting programmes mentioned in the podcast, visit Science.gov.au or China.Embassy.gov.au. To share your comments or inquiries, email us at [email protected].

On this joyous occasion, Austrade China wishes you a very merry Christmas and h [...]

Recently finished their journey at the Australian Landing Pad in Shanghai, Ms Trisha Lin and Mr Frank Ma, both from Cozitrip, a B2B tourist-tech company aggregating hotel rooms, service apartments and tourism products for online and offline travel agencies, joined the show and shared about their experiences at #ShanghaiLP.

To learn more about Cozitrip, visit cozitrip.com. To lodge your own Landing Pad applications, go to AustraliaUnlimited.com/LandingPads. To share your thoughts and inquiries, email us at [email protected].

Dr Veronica Borrett, by training a research scientist, but also the Founder of BAI Games - a game-based learning company, and the Creator of Wenhu App (Wenhu - Chinese for 'Word Tiger'). Wenhu is designed for westerners to learn Chinese characters through breaking characters up into smaller components as well as a series of gamification elements. Veronica joined us and shared her experience on the Shanghai Landing Pad as one of the Cohort 3 participants.

For more information on the Wenhu App, visit wenhu.com.au or search 'Wenhu' at iOS App Store. To lodge your application to the Landing Pad, visit AustraliaUnlimited.com/LandingPads. Any comments or questions, send us a note at [email protected].

We had an enlightening chat with the Trade Commissioner (Education, Northeast Asia) and Education Consul in Shanghai Mr Rhett Miller on projecting the Australian international education sector and offerings with a consideration of employability, emerging technology trends, and market needs in China.

For more information on the Online Education and EdTech Report mentioned in the programme, go to the Austrade Website.

Having built a half-expatriate-half-local startup community, established a Corporate Innovation portfolio, and continues to co-deliver the Australian Landing Pad programme in Shanghai with Austrade, XNode has proven to be a lead runner in the Shanghai startup scene offering a comprehensive range of services bridging the international and local startup and scaleup communities together. In this episode, XNode's Community Manager Mr Jasper Gill talks about the journey and thinkings of himself and XNode over the two years' development at 'China speed and China scale'.

To learn more about XNode Accelerator and Co-Working Space, access theXNode.com.