Metro Sector Mayors, 6 November 2012

Core Cities Project

ChinaNew Zealand

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 13th 2013

Progress

•Engagement strong across the network

•Delegation information being shared

•Long term strategic approach being developed

Gems

China engagement project

Project team