On September 25th the officials of China Development Bank took part in a discussion panels with the representatives of Polish government, National Bank, Office of Electronic Communication (UKE) and PSA. The aim of the visit is to identify investment prospects in the Polish - Chinese relations in power industry and telecommunication. All matters are discussed on a separate meetings dedicated to each topic.

The visitors from China also take part in macroeconomic panel that refers to consequences of a new stage of privatization process. This topic will be presented by the representatives of the Ministry of Treasure and the National Bank of Poland experts.

Meetings with the CDB delegation are organized by PAIiIZ.

More information: www.paiz.gov.pl/20130925/chinese_bank_offcials. (PAIiIZ)

Delegtion from Malesia in PAIiIZ

Guests attended the meetings with Employers of Poland and PAIiIZ’s representatives. On September 24th both sides presented the investment potential and business opportunities of their countries. The event helped to develop the opportunity of bilateral economic cooperation between Poland and Malesia.

Presentation of Polish investment potential

More information: www.paiz.gov.pl/20130925/malesia_interesed_in_poland. (PAIiIZ)

- The role of special economic zones, central location of Poland in Europe and well educated, young staff make our country an attractive place to invest - said Maciej Górski PAIiIZ advisor.

Local authorities of Taizhou in PAIiIZ

Guests represented the local authorities of the City of Taizhou, which is located in Zhejiang province. Taizhou is famous from well developed automotive, pharmaceutical and chemical sectors.

More information: www.paiz.gov.pl/20130925/chinese_delegation_from_taizhou. (PAIiIZ)

Issues related with business incentives, tax, legal and visa programmes as well was immigration procedures were discussed during the meeting. The conference was a big success. 65 representatives of Polish business who attended the conference also participated in a special investment workshops. According to NBP data cumulative value of Polish investments in USA is 1.6 billion euro.

From the left: William Czajkowski - Senior Commercial Officer, US Embassy, Douglas Greene - Deputy Chief of Mission, US Embassy and Sławomir Majman, PAIiIZ President

More information: www.paiz.gov.pl/20130924/how_to_enter_the_us_market. (PAIiIZ)

Poland is not only an interesting market for companies from the sector but also gives the opportunity to export products to neighbouring countries. - Cooperation of pharmaceutical industry with science in Poland is highly praised as one of the best in Europe. There is a chance that until 2030 Poland will become an European leader in generic drugs production - said Iwona Chojnowska - Haponik, director of PAIiIZ Foreign Investment Department during the Round Table for the pharmaceutical sector that took place on the September 24th in the InterContinental hotel in Warsaw.

Representatives of pharmaceutical sector and PAIiIZ during the meeting

More information: www.paiz.gov.pl/20130924/round_tabel_for_the_pharmaceutical_sector. (PAIiIZ)

On September 9th, in Czestochowa Industrial Park, PAIiIZ and PARP representatives met with city’s authorities and members of organizations supporting local business.

The main topic of a meeting was a presentation of investment potential of Częstochowa area as well as local enterprise development and creation of new workingplaces.

Częstochowa is considered as one of the most important industry centers in Poland and highly estimated academic center. Since many years the city has been also one of the Polish leader of investment attractiveness. (PAIiIZ)

Turkish journalists In PAIiIZ

On September 23th Turkish journalist from TRT radio and tv as weel as of Dunya newspaper met president of PAIiIZ Sławomir Majman; next day they visited the prestigious food expo PolAgra. During the event the delegation form Turkey tasted dishes made form Polish beef and watched the exposition “tastes of the region” presenting Polish regional food specialties.

After the visit the tv programme about high quality Polish beef is planned to be aired in Turkish television.

Meeting with Marek Nowakowski

More information: www.paiz.gov.pl/20130925/turkish_media_make_programme_about_poland. (PAIiIZ)

Participants of "Polish - Russia Economic Forum"

Luxoft is an international company with Russian origins. It is also one of the leaders of ITO sector in CEE. Currently the company employs 340 highly qualified programmers in IT centers in Krakow and Wroclaw. Until the end of 2015 Luxoft plans to extend the number of employees to 750.

Polish - Russian Economic Forum was organized by Polish-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, East Club, PAIiIZ and Pomorska Special Economic Zone together with the Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy and the Embassy of Russian Federation. The event was inaugurated by Sławomir Nowak - Minister of Transport, Ekaterina Belyakowa - Commercial Representatives of Russian Federation in Poland and Mr Ryszard Świlski - member of Pomorskie Regional Board.

PAIiIZ President Sławomir Majman and Polish - Russia Economic Forum President Stanisław Ciosek honours representatives of Luxoft: VP Przemysław Berendt and MD Wojciech Mach

More information: www.paiz.gov.pl/20130919/good_climate_for_russian_investments. (PAIiIZ)

The main purpose of the visit was the exchange of experience between national investment agencies, introduction to investment incentives system and presentation of technology parks in Poland. The programme of the study tour also included meeting at the Ministry of Economy, Pomorska Special Economic Zone and the attendance in the conference about services sector which is organized by PAIiIZ.

The participants of WAIPA probation visiting Gdańsk Science and Technology Park

More information: www.paiz.gov.pl/20130925/members_of_WAIPA_in_poland. (PAIiIZ)

The company will build a factory producing special paints for industry, hygienic food and pharmaceutical industry and also water-based coatings, adhesives and paint intermediates as basis and “verschnitty” - for printing sector. The company will create 10 new workplaces and will maintain the level of employment - at least 17 employees - until December 31st 2018.

This is the fourth permit in Starachowicce SEZ in 2013. (SSE Starchowice)

The German company Furstenberg Holz will build the factory, employ at least 55 workers and maintain the level of employment until 2020. The value of the first phase of investment (modern warehouse and the organisation of production) is 15 million PLN.

The company specializes in production of wooden industrial packaging for automotive and construction of machinery and equipment sectors. (Mo-Ja Multimedia)

This contract will be the first, very important step towards the acquisition of new market in this promising region by Ursus.

Ursus will also provide the equipment of service centers and spare parts to the sold tractors. Moreover, the company will conduct a training of the recipient’s crew and a technical support. Both sides plan to cooperate in machine and agricultural machinery branches. (URSUS)

Vehicles will be used on Berlin - Templin and Berlin - Kostrzyn Wielkopolski line. Modern DMU LINK offers 140 seats, places for wheelchairs and strollers and 12 places for bikes.

PESA has already been active in German market owing to cooperation with a private carrier Netinera and Deutshe Bahn, German national railways. (PESA)

• Exchange rates (as of 26.09.2013):

	Buy	Sell
USD	3.0918	3.1542
EUR	4.1745	4.2589

Source: www.nbp.pl

The meeting will take place on October 3rd at the PAIiIZ Information Centre (ul. Bagatela 12). Representatives of medical tourism branch that attend in the event: Ms Liza Zatterberg from CE Travel AB from Sweden and Ms Julie Conner, certified medical tourism specialist from GLOBAL Tourism Facilitators from USA. The foreign guests will present their opinions about Polish medical centers and their chances to compete on a international medical tourism markets.

Media that are interested in attending the event, please send an confirmation email to: karolina.dresler@paiz.gov.pl until October 1st 2013. (PAIiIZ)

TOOLEX gives an opportunity for a full overview of company offers all over the world. Last year edition in numbers: 295 exhibitors, more than 350 companies from 25 countries, 6857 m² stand area, 207 machines in motion, almost 8 000 visitors, 7035 registered specialist included.

During the Fairs the WIRTOTECHNOLOGIA Saloon will take place. The event is organized for branches which deal with methods and tools to virtualization of processes. (TOOLEX 2013)

More information: www.tolex.pl.

The meeting is dedicated to companies from environment protection, construction and logistics sectors. Due to limited number of possible meetings the order of application is crucial. For the same reason and due to a professional nature of meetings, companies that are close to presented sectors have the highest priority in booking.

English is the official language of meetings. For participants that are not familiar with this language organizers prepared a translation. The attendance is free of charge. All attendants interested in participation, please fill the application form (in English) and send it until October 2nd to: agnieszka_promianowska@parp.gov.pl or by fax (+ 22 432 70 46).

All details including application form can be fund here: www.een.org.pl/index.php/Targi_2/articles/spotkania-b2b-z-firmami-z-wielkiej-brytanii.html. (PARP)

The biggest groups of tourists came from: Germany (32.4%), Ukraine (13.5), Belarus (10.8%), Russia (4.5), Lithuania (4.1%) and Great Britain (3.3%). Analysis points out that „the Barcelona effect” has been stronger than it the expected one. The number of foreigners visiting Poland will be increasing in the next few years. Thanks to positive opinions of foreign guests and media, Polish image improved significantly. Poland noticed the biggest growth of country’s brand value among 100 surveyed countries. (MSiT)