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On a recent China Committee mission to Beijing, when all the meetings were finished and we were on the way to the airport, the delegates remarked how useful the trip had been and praised the Chamber for coming up with such an informative programme with relevant Central Government officials. Actually, this kind of praise and useful arrangements take place in the Chamber a couple times a month at least. In other words, many members feel that 4,000 dollars per year membership in the Chamber is the best deal in town.

Sadly, perhaps because we have not done a good job of publicising our services, or perhaps the members are still not focused on the services we provide, we still receive at this time of the year letters from a few members who say that they will not renew their membership because our services are "not relevant." This is at the same time that they spend thousands of dollars perhaps getting the same information and the same contacts through other commercial means. To us, the staff who work daily to make it easier for members to do business, it is especially frustrating to see this. 

I urge our members to look at the Chamber's full range of offerings, from luncheons to seminars to workshops to business matchings to China and Hong Kong economic analysis to networking to policy undertakings to specific trade help.   Whether you are an SME, or a large company, or a multinational, the Chamber has something for you.  If you do not find something suitable for you, contact us, and we shall see if we can improve our services.  Being a service organisation, the only thing that matters is how you use us.  And the more you use us, the more you will find us to be quite useful, and the more you will think that 4,000 dollars is such an inexpensive sum for Chamber membership.

So, I am hoping that the remaining members who have not renewed their membership for 2004 do so before the deadline of March 31. You will be glad you did, and we thank you.

Eden Woon
CEO
HKGCC