Recent CAIFU Events

Weibo‘s ties with Canada started in late 2017, when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chose Sina Weibo’s headquarters in Beijing as his first stop on his first official visit to China. In line with the G-20 summit during that time, Weibo held an online theme campaign with the hashtag Tour Canada Together. With the topic reaching 360 million hits within 24 hours, Weibo kicked off a good start for the China-Canada tourism year. In 2018, more information about Canada, Canada travel, and China-Canada exchange appeared on the Weibo platform.

Weibo's data has been steadily increasing since 2015. At the same time, its users are relatively even distributed in terms of cities or ages. During the last two years of operation, Weibo has mainly focused its operations on vertical interest, setting up different departments according to user interests in different content, providing them with more interesting content, as well as related products and services.

From September 5 to September 9, 2017, a business delegation from Vancouver journeyed to Beijing and Shanghai in China, meeting with government officials from both cities and visiting well-known Chinese companies. This resulted in the signing of several memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with the Chinese government and enterprises.

The Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) successfully hosted “Vancouver Welcomes JD.COM – Canada-China Business Forum” on Friday, July 28, 2017. A delegation of the Chinese e-commerce giant JD.COM officials led by Corporate Vice President Jerome Ma gathered with representatives from Canadian retailers and suppliers to discuss potential opportunities and challenges for collaboration between JD.COM – also known as Jingdong – and Canadian companies.