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Shortlist announced for CBBC’s 2022 China-Scotland Business Awards

The 5th annual China-Scotland Business Awards recognise and celebrate achievements in trade and investment between Scotland and China

The shortlist for the China-Scotland Business Awards was announced on 2 February 2022. The shortlisted companies appear in five different categories: Exporter of the Year, Educational Partnership of the Year, Chinese Investor of the Year, the Award for Climate Action and Entrepreneur of the Year.

The winners of the China-Scotland Business Awards will be announced at a special ceremony during the Chinese-Burns Supper on 9 March 2022 in Edinburgh. Now going into its ninth year, CBBC’s Chinese Burns Supper has become a permanent fixture in the China-Scotland business calendar. The event will feature a fusion of Burns Night traditions with those of Chinese New Year as a backdrop for black-tie networking for the China-Scotland business and educational community.

Read on to find out which companies, entrepreneurs and organisations have been nominated.

Award for Climate Action

  • Wood
  • Arbikie
  • Holmes Miller China
  • Sunamp

Entrepreneur of the Year 

  • Yuxuan Zhang
  • Dave Valentine
  • Chunli Zhang

Educational Partnership of the Year

  • Craigclowan Preschool Xi’an
  • Wuhan-Dundee Joint Programme in Architectural Studies
  • City of Glasgow College / Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics (ZJTIE)

Chinese Investor of the Year 

  • Loch Lomond China
  • Virens Technology

Exporter of the Year

  • Logan Energy
  • Johnstons of Elgin
  • Glencairn Crystal

The 2021 winners included Chinese Investor of the Year Logan Energy, which specialises in the delivery of engineering solutions for integrated hydrogen technology systems and attracted £1 million of investment from Henan Lanxing Power Equipment Co. to help develop the hydrogen market in China, and Entrepreneur of the Year James Buchan, who founded Dundee-based Zudu in 2014 to focus on digital marketing, development, and strategic consulting for both the UK and Chinese markets.

Register here for the China-Scotland Business Awards 2022 and the Chinese Burns Supper

James Brodie

James Brodie is CBBC's energy sector lead. For more information on China's energy market, contact James at james.brodie@cbbc.org

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