Metro Sector Mayors, 6 November 2012 Core Cities Project

China 304 times NZ’s entire population

Purpose – Better understand the role Cities play in growing NZ’s Economy

Building an evidence base – key steps Public Public partnership – LGNZ/MBIE and New Zealand's six largest City Councils Project network – Mayors, Chief Executives, strategy and policy analysts Research reports on each City- Region outlining competitive advantage and distinctiveness

Scale and Distance Huge barrier to exports

Principals for collaboration Cities offer opportunities for economic growth shared understanding that the competition is the rest of the world Councils will work together to improve the economic environment in all New Zealand cities City-region specializations are based on different comparative advantages

BUSINESS FRIENDLY GUIDELINES BUSINESS CASE Business Friendly project China engagement project Tranche 2 research

Collaboratively and over time, develop a robust set of guidelines for Business Friendly Cities to better enable recognition, benchmarking and improvements that: are informative, practical and ‘user friendly’ support the sharing practices across the Core Cities are targeted towards adding value for Council customers Project network to improve coordination and alignment for China delegations for 2013 Develop a joint China engagement strategy with an export focus based on competitive advantage Objectives Project Team in place across the network Calendar of in-bound business, in- bound political, outbound delegations built Strategy draft being prepared – Wellington City Council lead Workshop scheduled for March 13 th 2013 Progress Engagement strong across the network Delegation information being shared Long term strategic approach being developed Gems China engagement project

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