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The Business: 22/03/2009

22/03/2009

BBC Radio Scotland - The Business, 22/03/2009

Graham Stewart links up with business leaders in China who're on a Scottish trade mission.

Graham Stewart links up with business leaders in China who're on a high-profile Scottish trade mission this weekend.

Graham Stewart brings you the stories and issues making the news in business.

With the start of a high-profile Scottish trade mission to China this weekend, we focus on the business opportunities in the Far East.

Jane Gotts, from the Scottish Council for Development and Industry, joins us live from Shanghai to tell us what she hopes to achieve as a result of her visit. And Julia Weedon of Edinburgh's Telford College joins us from Hong Kong to explain the potential for selling educational services to the Chinese.

Also in Hong Kong is Stuart Leckie of investments and pensions company Stirling Finance. Having lived and worked in China for 30 years, he tells us about the challenges of doing business in the world's most populous country.

And Charles Hammond, chief executive of Edinburgh-based port operators, Forth Ports, talks about his company's record profits.

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