The First Chinese Real Estate Financing Conference commenced on Dec 15 in the Harbour Plaza Hotel in Hong Kong where "Eton Place·Dalian" won the 2006 Crown Prize in the China Real Estate Design League. The project is developed in Dalian by Eton Properties Group under the largest consortium, Dr. Lucio C. Tan's Group, and is designed by the well-known NBBJ at the expense of RMB 200,000,000 yuan, boasting of the great masterpiece under cooperation of Eton Properties Group and world famous architectural designing company that shows distinguished features and is generating great buildings.
The conference was organized by the China Real Estate Club of Commerce, Wenhui Daily and Certified Commercial Investment Member Institute undertaken by China Real Estate Club of Commerce Media Center and China Real Estate magazine which explores cooperation opportunities for real estate operators with the subject of project financing, whole building sale, inviting investment, investment on stocks , whole building purchase and inviting cooperative development.
During the conference titled "Chinese Real Estate Under Macroeconomic Control and Financial Opening", attendees such as President Nie Meisheng of China Real Estate Club of Commerce, Vice President Yao Wei of Citigroup Asia Investment, Director Fan Chen, Head of Greater China, Global Partner, Standard Chartered Private Equity Ltd., Chairman Shih Wingching of Centaline (Holdings) Co., Ltd., Vice President Chen Samson of Stanley & Partners Investment Management Co., Ltd. and President Shi Lily of Ronghui International, Hong Kong, gave speeches on real estate enterprise financing and development of Chinese real estate in the future.
In the afternoon special meetings were held on commercial real estate investment and financing, urban operation and real estate enterprises constructing diverse financing, investment and financing in the service apartment and a summit on architectural culture of the Two-coasts, Three-regions. Investors directly communicating with developers about the excellent domestic real estate projects such as Tianjin Landmark Department Store, Dongshan International City of Chengdu, and Shanghai Taidu Mingdi showed the developers were much favored by the investors.
In the present day, the conference also holds a solemn award ceremony, selecting annual influential people, buildings and enterprises, inclulding Lin Shaobin, the new spell chairman of China Real Estate Club of Commerce and Chen Shimin, CEO of China Real Estate Design League as the "2006 Annual Most Influential Persons in Chinese Real Estate industry". Other than "Eton Place·Dalian" under Eton Properties Group that won "2006 Crown Prize" by China Real Estate Design League, there were also nine major prizes such as the 2006 "Architectual Programming Prize", "Architectural Design Prize", "Landscape Design Prize", "Interior Design Prize", "Sustainable Architecture Prize", "Achitectural Culture Prize", "Original Design Prize" and the "Innovative Designing Organization Prize" which were issued to 13 projects.
It is known that the conference integrated many of the financial institution resources to communicate with the domestic real estate community. Invited were hundreds of financial institutions and famous domestic developers with over 200 participants concerned with Taiwan real estate and the financial community, allowing the first international and trans-district investment and financing conference of the highest rank and scale in the real estate community of Mainland China and Hong Kong.