Winners 2024 China-Scotland Business Awards Announced.

Sunamp, Glencairn Crystal, and Virens Technology were among the winners of the China-Scotland Business Awards last night.

Awards. The Awards have been announced and awarded on the Chinese Burns Supper held by CBBC in Edinburgh.

The companies were shortlisted for five categories. The categories included Exporter of the Year, Educational Partnership of the Year, Chinese Investor of the Year, the Award for Climate Action, and Entrepreneur of the Year.

The East Lothian-based Sunamp has been awarded Sunamp, a company based in East Lothian won the Award for Climate Action thanks to its world-class thermal storage technology, which transform the way we use energy and supply heat throughout the globe.

The Chinese Investor of the Year Award was awarded to Virens Technology, which aims to transform the industry of property management by making use of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and radar technology to promote sustainable development. Established in 2020 with its headquarters in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, Virens Technology now has teams of engineers at Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Virens Technology won the Award for Chinese Investor of the Year

Family-owned business Glencairn Crystal, the world’s best whisky glass creator, was awarded the Award for Exporter of the Year. For more than forty years, they’ve been providing whisky producers with top-quality containers and glasses. They have 80 percent of the products they create currently being available for sale or distribution outside of the UK, which includes the growing marketplace in China.

Glencairn Crystal won the Award for Exporter of the Year

The Award for Educational Partnership of the Year was won by the City of Glasgow College and Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics. Around 200 students have completed their studies with a Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics thanks to the partnership, despite having to face massive challenges in the aftermath of the epidemic.

The award for Entrepreneur of the Year was awarded to Zhang Yuxuan, the Overseas Business Director of Henan Lanxing Power Equipment Co Ltd. Yuxuan also acts as Business Development Director for China at the Edinburgh-based clean-energy solutions supplier Logan Energy and Business Development Director of Kelvin Capital, an investor syndicate that is based in Glasgow which assists Scottish businesses to gain access to China. Chinese market.

City of Glasgow College and Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics won the Award for Educational Partnership of the Year

The 2013 Awards included a unique feature: the Lifetime Achievement Award – which CBBC’s Chief Executive Andrew Seaton was delighted to present to the Vice-Principal and Principal for Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, Professor Sir Jim McDonald.

As it enters the ninth year of CBBC’s Chinese Burns Supper has become an integral part of the Chinese-Scotland calendar of business events.

Entrepreneur of the Year was won by Zhang Yuxuan

The celebration featured a blend of Burns Night traditions with those of Chinese New Year as a backdrop to black-tie networking for the China Scotland academic and commercial community.

The funds were donated to The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to help them with their long-term conservation efforts in collaboration and Kunming, Yunnan in southwest China in China’s southwest. The UN Biodiversity Conference, known as COP15, is scheduled to occur in the coming month.

The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, Professor Sir Jim McDonald.

Scottish exports into China totaled PS381 million during the year’s initial quarter. Particularly exports of beverages have increased over the past few years, increasing by 120% between the years 2020 to 2024.

Guests enjoyed a Lion Dance at the event

Relations between the UK and China through tourism, trade, and universities create between 8100 to 10,000 employment opportunities in Scotland, according to the 2020 figures obtained from Cambridge Econometrics.

CBBC’s James Brodie performed Robert Burns’ Address to the Haggis in both Mandarin Chinese and Scots

James Brodie, Commercial Director for the industrial sector of China-Britain Business Council, stated,