Venture capital forum to open in early August in E. China
BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua) — The midterm China Venture Capital Forum will be held on August 8 in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province, according to the organizer.
The annual forum, first launched in 2001 by the leading venture capital consultancy firm Zero2ipo and Shandong New and Hi-tech Investment Co. Ltd., will be themed the “road of China’s venture capital facing new challenges”.
During the forum, Zero2ipo was expected to release its midterm report on venture capital in China in 2003, and some 20 active venture capital investors in the first half of the year will make speeches and round-table discussions.
According to the research of Zero2ipo, the volume of venture capital investment in the first quarter of 2003 equaled to half of the total of 2002, indicating a remarkable rise in such investment in China, and Shandong has become a venture capital-active region, following in the steps of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
