Converging Global Services, Powering Overseas Growth

About the conference

On 9 September 2026, the Chinese Enterprise Globalization & Global Professional Services Conference was held at the Qiantan Shangri-La Hotel in Shanghai. The conference was hosted by Leadvisor Global together with Becton Dickinson China and the Shanghai Pudong Service Center for Overseas Investment.

It brought representatives of professional services firms from more than thirty countries and regions to Shanghai for face-to-face conversations with over two hundred Chinese companies pursuing international expansion, connecting global professional resources coming in with Chinese enterprises going out.

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Speakers on stage

200+

Companies attending

30+

Countries represented

1,000+

Online viewers

Inside the conference

The conference opened with addresses by Zhang Cangang, Director of the Expo Area Bureau of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Administration, and James Deng, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Greater China at Becton Dickinson & Co.

Five keynote speeches then mapped the support available to companies heading abroad: the Expo Area and the New Bund International Business District as landing platforms; the public service system of the Shanghai Pudong Service Center for Overseas Investment; and Warburg Pincus on the role of capital. Closing the session, Dr. Lin Zhong, Founder of Leadvisor Global, opened with the Shan Hai Jing, or Classic of Mountains and Seas, a Chinese text compiled more than two thousand years ago that catalogues the distant lands, peoples and creatures beyond the known world, and the travellers who set out to reach them. From there he turned to the reshaping of cross-border enterprise service networks, and set out the mission behind building a global professional services network.

Four roundtables handed the microphone to the people who have actually done it. CEOs and investors discussed global operations and capital pathways; the healthcare and general counsel sessions turned to industry execution and risk control. The most expensive cost of going global is rarely the capital committed, but the risk nobody saw coming.

The Five-Continent Professional Services Forums followed, opening in turn on Southeast Asia & Hong Kong SAR, West & South Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Each was led by practitioners who work in those markets year-round: every region offers its own opportunities, and its own risks.

New Trends in Chinese Enterprises Going Global

The 2026 edition of New Trends in Chinese Enterprises Going Global, produced jointly by Leadvisor Global and the ECUPL Institute of Internet Law, was released at the conference. Its central finding: the binding constraint on Chinese companies abroad is shifting from markets and distribution to policy and compliance. Cross-border legal structuring, tax architecture, global compliance, intellectual property and local employment together determine the route a company takes and the structure it builds.

From professional services to overseas opportunities

Leadvisor Global is a one-stop professional services platform for enterprises going global. The network currently spans 5 continents and more than 60 countries and regions, bringing together over 80 licensed local firms across four service categories: legal, tax and accounting, consulting and business services, covering company formation, ODI approval, tax compliance, intellectual property, dispute resolution, and cross-border investment and financing.

The platform offers more than services. The Selected Portfolio of Overseas Opportunities distributed on site is an excerpt from the platform’s project pool: 37 opportunities from 20 countries and regions, across 4 continents and 8 priority industries, led by mineral resources, hospitality and real estate, and food and agriculture. The full pool goes considerably further.

On Leadvisor Global, users describe what they need in plain language, “set up a company in Singapore”, for instance, and the platform uses AI to match them with workable service proposals and advisors on the ground, then opens a shared workspace in one click. Communication, quotes, contracts, payment and delivery all sit on the same page, with progress and fees visible and traceable end to end.

From programme design and speaker invitations to on-site delivery and the live stream, this conference owed a great deal to our co-hosts, supporting institutions and every guest who took part. Our thanks to all of them.

For Chinese enterprises, going global is no longer a question of whether, but of how, and with whom. Leadvisor Global set out to bring the world’s professional services onto a single network, and to travel further alongside more Chinese companies.