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A new business growth initiative has been launched in Lagos, and with ian nternational flavour. It is the Nigeria-China Service Center (NCSC).
The debut of the NCSC was announced by the chief executive of the centre, Chief Ronnie Liu, a Chinese investors and businessman with an investment interest of close to 25 years in Nigeria. Liu has a chain of business interests in Lagos, Ogun and Osun states and has lived in Nigeria these decades.
A statement from NCSC noted that the centre is jointly established by the Institute of Nigeria China Development Studies, University of Lagos, and the Chinese Investors Association for Development and Promotion.
It is to serve the purpose of creating a link and connection between Nigerians and Chinese who want to invest or do business in each other’s country.
Liu said the Centre located at the Eleganza Plaza, Oregun, close to the 7Up bottling plant would serve as a clearing house for economic growth and investment between China and Nigeria.
The Centre has Nigerian partners also and would facilitate the reach of Nigerians to find business partnerships in China and the reverse.
The management of the centre that has three Nigerians and two Chinese said the activities of the centre include consulting and bringing Nigerians investment potential to Chinese business community in Nigeria and China who would want to set up businesses in Nigeria.
It will further ensure the redibility and openness of the partners to make it possible for such intending investors not to fall into wrong hands either way.
The management team is made of Chinese businessmen who are quite familiar with the Nigerian investment environment and also Nigerians so familiar with China who command trust and influence among the Chinese clan. Some of them have done business in and with China, while others studied in China and over time have sustained close professional ties with China.
Over the years, Liu who is the brain behind the Chinese Investors Association for Development and Promotion has worked in liaison with the University of Lagos to establish the Institute in the prime university.
The institute came as the first of its kind in Nigeria and in response to the call and challenge of the former Vice Chancellor, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe to the Chinese community of investors and businesspeople in Lagos and Nigeria.
On the day the idea was birthed, the former VC after watching a programme of the Confucius Institute of the university that coaches Nigerians in Chinese culture and language called for such synergy.
At that event in July 2017 in the university, Liu, on behalf of his association pledged to take up the task and later realized it.
The institute has been up and running. Its objective is to enable Nigerian and Chinese investors, manufacturers, and suppliers to work together for a better economy, and also have a targeted research module of how best the two countries can form alliances for common growth.
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