SCCCI adapts to new virtual normal amid pandemic; says China is still key market

Chambers says its ties with China's province-based trade bodies here are useful; members are now younger

Janice Heng

Published Tue, Jul 21, 2020 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

IN THE face of the inconveniences wrought by Covid-19, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) has gone virtual. The business organisation now offers its members online courses, digital trade fairs and consultancy services, e-introductions to opportunities abroad, and webinars in which the authorities help to explain support packages.

SCCCI president Roland Ng told The Business Times: "You take a few years to promote digitalisation... (then with Covid-19), in a few months, you actually get into it, because if you don't get into it, you get into problems."