A team of investors and footballers from Shanghai were welcomed to Birmingham during an evening reception hosted by top city Chinese and dim sum restaurant, Chung Ying Central.

The event at Chung Ying Central offered Shanghai football team Clever FC, some of its sponsors and a number of invited dignitaries and business figures from Birmingham the opportunity to network and forge business links between the city and Mainland China.

The Shanghai team and their associated dignitaries visited Birmingham as part of a 10 day history tour of the UK, which is celebrating the first direct investment into a UK football club by Mainland China.

The historytou’ also aims to encourage trade and business links between the UK and China and will see Clever FC play a team of our own loved ex-Pros in a charity football match at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena.