On September 17, 2007, Mr. Lijia Chen, business official of Consulate General of New Zealand in Guangzhou and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, visited Tahota Law Firm for idea exchange. Partners of Tahota including Lawyer Jianhong Yang and Lawyer Chunyan Ma warmly received the visit of Ms. Chen.

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is a national economic development agency under the government of New Zealand. Currently, it establishes offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. In recent years, with increase of investment project of enterprises of New Zealand in China especially increase of foreign trade of West China, the assistance of professional talents specialized in finance and law are urgently needed. This travel in Chengdu was to conduct early-stage investigation for launch of trade business of New Zealand in West China. Ms. Chen introduced the features of enterprise in New Zealand and she mainly mentioned IT enterprises with high technological content as well as agricultural product enterprises which paid great attention to the protection of intellectual property rights. Lawyer Jianhong Yang introduced the conditions of the law firm to the client in detail and intensively introduced relevant conditions of International Business Department of Tahota based on the features of New Zealand. Many talents worked in International Business Department and many of them were excellent overseas returnees from Great Britain, USA, Germany and Japan. Therefore, they had abundant experience in legal affairs in terms of internal trade and intellectual property rights. We hoped that this exchange would strengthen business contacts of the two parties. Finally, Ms. Chen thanked us for warm reception and the two parties reached amicable consensus.