The Maltese-Chinese Chamber of Commerce annual dinner was held in June at the residence of its President Chev. Maurice Mizzi who threw open the gates of his beautiful garden at Ras Riħana in Bidnija for a summer event of food, music and good company. Several members of parliament, senior embassy officials and prominent business people as well as the Board of MCCC were present. There was music and singing including that of Maurice who is no mean crooner. In his speech that evening he spoke about Brexit. "I will not mention the impossible dream of some people who are hoping that Brexit will not happen. Unfortunately for them the oracle has spoken," Chev. Mizzi told diners. "In Malta we could benefit by an information campaign aimed at manufacturing and other companies in the UK to transfer their operations to Malta thus providing them with an easier and less costley entry into the EU." His said that while the Chamber is perturbed at recent events in Europe it is optimistic on China's investment in Malta by Shanghai Electric as well as the first steps taken by that giant company Huawei. Shanghai Electric besides providing us with electricity, he said, is already looking to expand its activities to other European countries using Malta as a base. "Chinese students in Foreign universities rose from 417 thousand in 2006 to nearly a million in 2015. A good omen for China's future," he said and mentioned that there are also over 1 million electric cars in China - "another good omen for the environment."The Chamber is looking forward to helping any Maltese company to export its products to China as well as to induce large Chinese companies to follow Shanghai Electric's example and seriously set up shop in Malta to invade Europe and North African markets "when the useless fighting in Libya will finally stop."On behalf of the Chamber he thanked most heartily Minister Cardona for giving the Chamber the use of an office and a boardroom in the Millenium Buildings in Marsa "where we have a paid secretary.  This has made a great difference to our operation."The future plans for the Chamber, Chev. Mizzi continued,  is to have a Chinese person or office in Shanghai in order initially to have a presence there." He thanked his fellow Council members for their work "particularly Isabella Vella who was responsible for this evening's event. " He also thanked Mrs Qiu Quangling, the Commercial Attaché, who not only sits on our Council but is always ready to help the Chamber." On behalf of the Council he thanked HSBC for their financial help and the treasurer Gaetano Sammut, a member of this bank.  "HSBC has helped so many companies to develop their potential," he reminded his audience. Guests continued to enjoy the food, the music and the general ambience of the gardens of Ras Riħana.