What Britain can gain from doing business with China The All Party Parliamentary Group I lead to Shanghai this weekend goes to China's leading business city at a good time. The political climate is warmer, with high-level visits in full flow: trade has doubled from a lowish base in a short space of time and is on track to reach a bilateral target of US$100 billion by 2015. Education links are stronger than ever and Cambridge Assessment, for example, scores over half a million English exams in China each year. So I'm looking forward to going back to Shanghai. My family lived there for four happy years and my younger son was the first Briton born in China since the communist revolution of 1949. I helped list the only joint venture Sino-British company on the Stock Exchange (Shanghai Yaohua Pilkington) and the first Chinese company to list in London (Zhenhai), founded and chaired the British Chamber of Commerce, helped create the first Anglo-Chinese charity Care4Children and re-founded the Shanghai Cricket Club. Today's opportunities are wider. All our MPs will have constituency goals to pursue from rapidly increasing links: from my constituency of Gloucester alone we export dentist drills, container port rail tracks, cylinders, giant valves, marine diesel engines and even scented tea. The big bilateral advances over the last year are inward investment and currency trading. The Chinese have invested recently in Heathrow Airport, Thames Water, North Sea oil, 30 acres by the City Airport and next up (following the Chancellor's visit) is nuclear power. This nicely combines the Chinese ambition of going global and diversifying their domestic exposure with our need of foreign capital for infrastructure development. And our growing role in trading renminbi gives Chinese access to the most international currency markets and consolidates London's position as the international platform for growth economies - as both the Chancellor and the Mayor of London emphasised. In Shanghai & Suzhou we will see UK companies who have designed a sound system for a Chinese orchestra, airports in different parts of the country, the US$4 billion redevelopment of Shanghai International Shipping Services Centre, Johnny Walker House and a cosmopolitan restaurant set up by an expatriate Brit. We will be shown the new Free Trade Zone, a UK training college and debate in a joint venture university whether creativity or diligence is more important to education. Much has changed but I am sure all the Parliamentarians will leave with the overriding feeling I've always had to life and business in China: nothing is easy but everything is possible. In an era when Made in Britain has never been so strong a brand, and as China's market for our brands and services grows, that should remain the British approach to our relationship. It won't be long before sharing ideas on the role of legislators will be on the agenda. The rule of law is high on the Chinese agenda and having more parliamentarians who have visited and understand China all helps make that discussion better informed. Richard Graham MP is the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary China Group