Chief Business Strategist, China
Mr. Lan is a business consultant who has helped fast-growing companies in a variety of industries to establish strategic, operational and governmental relationships with entities in the Peoples Republic of China (“PRC”).
In February 2002, Mr. Lan helped arrange for President and Mrs. Bush’s trip to Beijing and the Great Wall. He has taken various delegations from government, trade and business organizations to China and helped them make high-level contacts with key participants in their areas of interest. Mr. Lan has also hosted numerous high level delegations from China to visit the US including Chinese Ambassador to the US, HE Zhou Wenzhong, Consul Generals of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco, and ministers and vice ministers from MOST, MOFCOM, MOE, CAAC, SFDA, SEPA, and etc.
He has helped obtain patent protection in China for various US based companies in intellectual property and has concluded negotiations on behalf of many US company in IP licensing, M&A, supply contracts and other agreements with Chinese manufacturers and exporters. In addition, he has provided high level introductions to the appropriate national, provincial and city government officials. Mr. Lan has published a number of books in the PRC and has been featured in articles published in Oregon Business, The Oregonian, Portland Business Journal and other English and Chinese news media.
He is the Executive Director of Joint Committee on Fujian Sister State under Oregon legislature. It is the only statutory committee in the US codifying sister state relation with China. The statutory law was successfully lobbied by Mr. Lan and passed by Oregon legislature in 2006. Mr. Lan is also the President of Oregon-Fujian Sister State Association. He has arranged Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski’s 2008 successful visit to China and Oregon Speaker Dave Hunt’s 2009 visit to China.
He graduated from the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade (now the University of International Business & Economics) in 1983 and received a B.S. degree in Social Science & International Trade from Portland State University in 1989.
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