The 8th China Venture Capital and Private Equity Annual Forum will be hosted in Beijing on December 9 through 10, 2008.

In 2008 an uncertain investment environment is full of opportunities and challenges and China is going through a trial of the second big market in the history of start-up investment. At a time when the Chinese economy is accelerating its pace to gear to the international conventions with an irreversible momentum, the stock market falls, gasoline prices rise, the Chinese currency appreciates, new Labor Law is introduced and sub-prime debt crises occur in the USA. All this has affected the Chinese economy and spread to the start-up investment and private equity industry, especially the profitability and withdrawal from the market by the invested enterprises. The stock price in the capital market has dropped and remained at a low level, but the assessed value is still kept high. The investment advantage of the RMB fund becomes apparent with each passing day, but it is hard to be dominant at present. The Chinese start-up investment will gradually enter into a new period of joint guide by both Chinese and foreign funds. In the circumstances of tight money supply and economic fluctuation, heavy investment by start-up investment and private equity will become a unique feature of the capital market and its contribution to the Chinese economy in the unsteady period must be seen…

In 2008 confronted with great uncertainty in economy, the key period of new-round integration with the world, adjustment rules and investment strategy emerge as the times require. How to select investment phases---more investment in the growth period and later period, how to deduct the status of weakened attention to early investment; how to select investment area---under the conditions of diversified areas, what considerations an investor will give about investment areas in addition to the strategy; how to select an investment industry---under the conditions of diversified industries, what is the investor’s strategy about the industry selection and whether there is any change in and adjustment to the direction; how to select investment modes—bonus share mode, JV mode or pure RMB mode? What challenges and dilemma will be faced? At the incoming China Venture Capital and Private Equity Annual Forum, we’ll invite once again top investors, pioneering entrepreneurs, fund investors and related professional at home and abroad to gather in the meeting place for exchange of profound insight, sharing of experience and look for business opportunity for cooperation.

This Forum will last for two days and its main organization form includes theme lecture, round-table forum, exhibition and display, investment talks. We expect that exchange of views held by senior investment experts and entrepreneurs will bring a brand-new vitality to the industrial development and disperse dark clouds for you under the present economic environment so that we may forge ahead resolutely together.

As the eighth one since 2001, the China Venture Capital Forum organized by Zero2IPO has grown into a prestigious professional forum brand in China VC and PE industry. This gala specifically designed for investors, entrepreneurs, academic and research institutions and all related peers is sincerely hoping your participation and will become your optimal partner on your way to future development.