You could hardly turn on a TV, radio or open a newspaper last week without encountering the Chancellor of the Exchequer furiously exhorting British business to engage more enthusiastically with all of the opportunities he sees in China.
From lecterns in Beijing, Shanghai, and even far Urumqi, his message was unrelenting.
And, putting our money where his mouth is, he cooked up a deal in nuclear power which recalled for some older minds the 1970s film the China Syndrome - also scary but for different reasons.
For those operating at less elevated levels, the response to Mr Osborne's preaching might be an exasperated "we hear what you are saying loud and clear - but in simple practical terms, how do we get on with it?"
If that's your position, then those very helpful folk at the Birmingham Chinese Business Forum (BCBF) yet again have a solution.
Taking up Osborne's theme, BCBF's next event aims to give some genuine low down on what needs to be done to work with prospective Chinese investors in our local property market.
Some of our more enterprising developers do seem to be making some headway in this regard and will be sharing insight and experience at the event along with participation of actual Chinese investors.
The recent volatility in the Shanghai stock market, which caused quite a measure of wider anxiety, has been attributed at least in part to the relative immaturity of that market and of those who play in it.
Bricks and mortar are seen as a more comprehensible prospect and movement of funds abroad into property by both private investors and state-backed entities is almost certain to continue.
The BCBF event takes place on November 4 and will be hosted by Wightman at their St Philips Point offices between 6pm and 8pm.
You'll often see property folk cheerfully gripping a glass of something bubbly at a ground breaking or topping out.
The Chancellor's visit to China gave him another opportunity to emulate them and try out what he clearly sees as his best look - hard hat and high-vis vest worn over a business suit.
It's not every one who can truly carry it off but George always gives it his best shot.
It certainly appears so often you have to believe there is a Treasury civil servant whose main task is to carry around the gear just in case the opportunity presents itself to don the stuff.
Overseas opportunities may be a little more complicated but I really want to believe that, just like international footballers, statespersons now, as a matter of course, swap their vests and hats after the big photo op at the oil refinery, high speed train factory or wherever else it may be that the search for new investment takes them, just to preserve the memory.
However, it has to be said even those who have been promoting awareness of the fast growing importance of China in global economic terms have begun to feel that Mr Osborne's attachment to China is becoming just a tad overwhelming.
His devotion has some of the features of a lovelorn 13 year old and no-one would be too surprised to learn that he has scribbled "I love China" on the inside of his pencil case.
China itself tends to rake a much less sentimental view of things and engagement overseas for it will be of course only be based on a pretty hard-hearted assessment of commercial and national advantage.
To be fair, serious British companies already take much the same hard view.
I spent a less than wholly fruitful week recently trying to set up a programme of meetings here in the UK for a major Chinese corporation, already highly acquisitive in overseas markets and keen to build some initial bridges.
Coloured perhaps by the current uncertainties about the immediate short term in China - and maybe a little perplexed by the slightly speed dating approach adopted by the Chinese side to the encounters (set three banks, two financial advisers and an acquisition project by Thursday week, please) it was hard work.
Leaving aside the teenage courting aspect of Osborne's approach (if we make clear our puppy love for China, they will love us right back), the fact is that others have been engaged in long standing and more formal courtship with China and don't need their politicians, like a teacher at a Year 9 disco inciting the kids to take to the floor.
Anyway, for those whose toes are already tapping and are eager to learn how to throw the right shapes, the upcoming BCBF event might be just the thing.
