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China Investment in Israeli Companies Rises


(Financial Times-UK) John Reed and Charles Clover - When Israel held its biggest agricultural technology conference, Agrivest, last month, one in 10 delegates came from China. A few weeks before, a large delegation from Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, had been in Tel Aviv to attend Cybertech, Israel's main conference on cyber security. Chinese companies are pushing deeper and further into Israel than ever before, and Israeli companies and government officials are returning the embrace. "When you say 'Israel' in China they think innovation, they think high technology," says Ophir Gore, Israel's trade attache in Beijing. Israel's trade turnover with China reached $11 billion last year, about double the amount recorded in 2010.
2015-05-15 00:00:00
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