大型中国银行持续挺近昆州，另有五家银行宣布在布里斯班开设分支机构的计划

继4年前成立了分支机构后，上海交通银行选在在4月20日在布里斯班的Eagle街开设其第二家澳洲的分支机构。该银行目前在全球共有约2800家分支机构。

该银行在一份陈述中宣称“期待有机会能在澳大利亚新的世界级城市进一步发展”，并期待将目标客户瞄向在农业、矿业及制造业的大型企业。

中国银行与中国建设银行在过去的几年中已经在布里斯本开设了分支银行，以支持中澳之间的日益增加的双向贸易。昆士兰州目前的全州出口量的33%为出口至中国的。

“在过去的五到七年间，大型中国银行在澳洲都设立了更多的窗口，”普华永道金融服务的领导Hugh Harley说道，“他们的策略是支持中澳之间的双向贸易，尤其是矿产资源与农业方面。

“随着昆士兰在这两个领域的出口占了大量的比例，中国银行越来越重视在布里斯班也是非常可理解的。”Harley先生说中国银行所提供的全套服务包括商业贷款、信贷与贸易服务及抵押贷款。

澳大利亚豪力律师事务所的商业法律师Carl Hinze说当这些银行都在悉尼和墨尔本建立了分支机构后，布里斯班成为下一个他们瞄准的市场是非常合理的。

“谈到来自中国的大量私人财富，布里斯班市场在很大程度上还未被这些投资者发掘利用，但他们已经意识到了这个地区。”已作为投资银行律师在中国工作了十来年之久的Hinze先生说道。

他说中国的“一带一路”策略将促进大量中国公司往澳洲这样的地方进行投资。该策略是指将中国与其东南亚邻国进行连接的“海上丝绸之路”。

在最近进行的昆士兰州选举之前，出售资产还在州议事日程上，当时政府对于中国投资者的预期是其感兴趣的领域多为基础建设。

“而现在的重点大多会被放在昆士兰州的商业地产、旅游、农业与医疗保健行业。”他说。

在2012年，山东如意科技集团以2.77亿澳元收购了昆士兰的库比棉集团(QueenslandCotton Group)，而另一家投资集团新希望投资基金在2013年收购Kilcoy牧场屠宰场的价格为6千万澳元。

中国客户目前所占昆士兰房地产海外买家的比例已为最高，在2013/2014年度已占4.63亿澳元。上海的中金投资集团在去年花了逾3千万澳收购了昆士兰的度假胜地白日梦岛。Hinze先生还称中国银行既能向中国国企与私人客户提供服务，也同样能服务大型澳洲企业。

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Chinese banks roll into Brisbane

BIG Chinese banks are continuing their push into Queensland, with another of the country’s top five lenders announcing plans to open a Brisbane branch.

Shanghai-based Bank of Communications will open an office in Eagle St on April 20, its second branch after it established an initial Sydney outlet four years ago. The bank has almost 2800 branches around the world.

The bank said in a statement that it “looked forward to the opportunity to grow in Australia’s New World City” and would target large scaleclients in agriculture, mining and manufacturing.

Bank of China and China Construction Bank have already opened branches in Brisbane over the past few years to support the growing two way trade between Australia and China. Queensland now ships to China about 33per cent of the state’s total exports.

“The big Chinese banks have had an increasing presence in Australia over the past five to seven years,” said PwC financial services leader Hugh Harley. “Their strategy is to support the two way trade between Australia and China, particularly mineral resources and agriculture.

“With Queensland being a big contributor to both thoseexports, the fact that the Chinese banks are focusing on Brisbane is entirelyunderstandable.” Mr Harley said Chinese banks were providing the full suite ofservices from commercial lending, credit and trade services to mortgagelending.

Holding Redlich commercial law partner Carl Hinze said that after initially establishing branches in Sydney and Melbourne, Brisbane was the next logical market.

“Brisbane is largely untapped in respect of the large influx of private wealth that is coming from China but is on the radar of investors,”said Mr Hinze, who worked as an investment banking lawyer in China for adecade.

He said China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy will fuel massive outbound investment by Chinese companies in places like Australia.” The strategy refers to the ‘maritime Silk Road’ connecting China to its Southeast Asian neighbours.

When asset sales were still on the agenda before the recentQueensland election the expectation was that Chinese investors would mostly beinterested in infrastructure.

“Now the focus will mostly be on commercial property,tourism, agriculture and healthcare in Queensland,” he said.

In 2012, Shandong Ruyi bought Queensland’s Cubbie CottonGroup for $277 million, while in 2013 another Chinese investor New Hope Investment Fund took over Kilcoy Pastoral abattoir for about $60 million.

Chineseare now the biggest foreign acquirers of Queensland property, investing $463 million in 2013/2014. Shanghai-based China Capital Investment Group late lastyear paid over $30 million for Daydream Island Resort and Spa. Mr Hinze added that Chinese banks were serving large Chinese state-owned companies and private clients as well as big Australian companies.

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