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Stephen Perry has been involved with China since his earliest days. His father was the leader of the Icebreaker group to China in 1953 which restarted UK-China trade relations a year after starting up the business in which Stephen is today Managing Director, London Export Corporation. This year is the company’s 60th anniversary of trade with China.

Stephen grew up with letters from China and stories from China and after studying law at UCL he joined the company full time. The company traded commodities with China and distributed consumer goods in the UK. Stephen opened up US-China trade for the company in 1971/72 and went on to establish subsidiaries there. In the early 90’s he decided to focus on strategic long term deals with China and put together some of the ground breaking deals of that period in China. More recently he has again broken new ground with a deal in Africa with China and a western company.

Stephen is chair of the legendary 48 Group who have been working with China since 1953. Their mission is to develop a positive relationship with China.

One of his main missions is to ensure that the British better understand China. His talk will be around that theme – understand China to work effectively with China.

• Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era

  By Stephen Perry on January 17, 2020

  Something is going on. there is a lot of reform – for example of state owned enterprises, financial management, digital currencies, new tariffs.   So the emphasis is on the New Era. This is a New Era that is a… Read More ›

• Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

  By Stephen Perry on January 16, 2020

  The Chinese have been studying Western models of State Owned Enterprises for about 30 years. To get a clear picture of what is, and is not, working at various periods of history and why.   This has then been translated… Read More ›

• The Chinese Socialist System – managing the nation’s health

  By Stephen Perry on January 14, 2020

  All western systems which provide some form of universal health coverage do so trying to manage tax receipts with the health expenditures. The cost of health is 18pc in the USA and rising and mainly based on insurance. The cost… Read More ›

• President Xi Jinping New Year Address 2020

  By Stephen Perry on January 6, 2020

  Below you will find a link to the full text of President Xi Jinping’s New Year message for 2020, which we circulate for your information.   Those of us who have studied China for many decades appreciate that if one… Read More ›

• The Fourth Region

  By Stephen Perry on January 6, 2020

  Here we may have the fourth region in new China, following the Beijing/Tianjin/ Xiongan, Yangtze River Delta, and the Greater Bay area.   This one is based around Chengdu and Chonqing.   This release perhaps contains a translation error.  … Read More ›

• Digital blockchain currency in a changing world of finance

  By Stephen Perry on January 6, 2020

  I am trying to stay alongside this vast subject. As the world is submerged in huge debt, Western systems based on Bretton Woods have not adapted to a new world, and a new area of China is leading in changes… Read More ›