American Airlines are launching direct flights from Birmingham Airport to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. The first one will departure on 8 May 2015. Paul Kehoe, Birmingham Airport CEO expects this to bring more tourists into our region as well as strengthening business […]

This summer Birmingham will be the first city outside of London to launch direct flights to China. The Guangzhou-headquartered China Southern Airlines will be running a Beijing-Birmingham route from this July. The announcement follows months of hard work by the airport team, and other Birmingham […]

Air India has recently increased the frequency of flights from Birmingham Airport to Amritsar, located in the state of Punjab, India. The decision to increase the flights’ frequency was taken on 5th May; just few months after these non-stop flights were launched. Flights now operate […]

A civic reception hosted by Sir Albert Bore, Leader of Birmingham City Council, will be held at the Council House on Tuesday, 22 July 2014, on the occasion of the inaugural China Southern flight from Beijing to Birmingham. The reception is for invitees only.

The Tenth Anniversary of friendship and exchange between Birmingham and Nanjing was marked by a visit from Birmingham’s partner city on 12th September 2018.  The ten strong delegation, led by the Party Secretary, Mr Zhang Jinghua, met with Council Leader Cllr Ian Ward and Bham […]

Birmingham was represented on the Property and Private Wealth panel event at the China British Business Council’s ‘Outbound Investment’ conference in Beijing on the 3rd November 2015.   The conference, which targeted investors from the private and state sectors, was aimed at Chinese companies and […]

The 9th of March marked an important milestone for the delivery of Birmingham’s European and International Strategy. For the first time since its launch, the four chairs of the area based associations met with the Leader of the Council, Sir Albert Bore. They talked about […]

The Chinese flag is now flying on Colmore Row following a landmark property deal by a Hangzhou based investment consortium. 130 Colmore Row, previously owned by the City Council, will be redeveloped as a multi-use site with a focus on attracting further Chinese business to […]

The city of Guangzhou is located in Guangdong province in the Pearl River Delta area of China and was formally known as Canton.  Guangzhou is a significant city in China, ranked as its third largest  in population terms.  In fact, around 13 million people call […]

  An ecosystem is like a finely tuned Swiss watch.  Poetry in motion if you have all the relevant cogs and springs in place, but with one wheel out of kilter, the movement can go to pot.  Investment in people and skills is the oil […]