Patel nadir is among the list of the Globe and Mail Canadian 45 change the world. "' Widely unknown and - until now - anonymity,' Patel, Canada [Images] Consul General in Shanghai, is among this ' diaspora booming: 2.7 million men and women increasingly called nettilling province of Canada," said the newspaper.Patel, 40, has been featured in "connectors," category - people who "make links." where none existed before
"I was pleasantly surprised when Globe and Mail said that they would like my profile and put myself in the company of eminent Canadians that they are profiling," Patel, who was the Chief negotiator Air Canada before his memory of China, said Rediff.com. "I said it's great to be in this business." It is quite extraordinary, as the appeal was entirely out of the blue. The list has the Canadian diaspora representing Canadian interests abroad. It is a privilege and an honour for me to be in this list. »
Patel, who was appointed to his current position in April 2009, said "I oversee the management of one of the Canada most important consulates abroad with an estimated staff of 100 and nearly 200 Canadian companies in Shanghai and the surrounding area of the delta of the Yangtze River."
Highlights of its mandate include the participation of the Canada at the Shanghai Expo and receive Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other heads of Canadian leaders who visited China. "It has been for me an amazing experience to these 20 months to be in Shanghai", he explains.
Canada and China currently are about $ 60 billion in trade.
"It is more than the [Images] India Japan [image], United Kingdom, Brazil [Images] and Russia [Images] combined." We do more trade with China in a month that we do with the India in one year ($5 billion), "he says. "The difference between China and the India is the infrastructure here how advanced is in the India." High-speed rail is unparalleled. This what used to take a four hour drive from Shanghai to Nanjing, and two and a half hours by train, took now only 70 minutes by train at high speed. This led some 7.5 million people near Shanghai Nanjing. From here you can see benefits to Canadians and 48 000 other companies operating in Shanghai. Take this example and multiply everywhere in China. "Infrastructure developed so that it creates new competitive advantages for Canadian companies doing business in China, the Chinese market".
On the India play until its similarities with the Canada - a democratic system and the lack of the language barrier - note that it is easy for companies to do business in India, Patel said, "the China is not well understood at the Canada less than a visit to China, or a Canadian studied in China or had dealings with China." Today there is no language issues. It is easier. We have the Canada Consulate can help Canadian companies who lack understanding of China. "There are challenges in China, but once that you come here you realize that you can navigate to interpreters and intermediaries."
The diplomat does calls that gloss over pas challenges well. "Every relationship has some points of friction, but when it comes to trade and investment, the Chinese, business is business," said. "If there is an opportunity for a Chinese company doing business in the Canada, or a Canadian business to do business here, don't be those points of friction in the way? every relationship has some issues, but our perspective? the relationship is at an all-time high."
"Canada is a highly respected trademark here", he added. "Canada with China relations date back to several years." Last year we celebrated 40 years of formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. We have 1.3 million Canadians of Chinese descent as Canadian diplomats, we are highly regarded. »
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