Google AdWords Shandong Experience Center was open on May 18 at Shangri-La Hotel. Kevin O’Kane, managing director of Asia Pacific Region SMEs Division of Google, officials from Google Greater China Region, Qingdao Municipal Commerce Bureau, Shibei District Government, Qingdao Municipal Commerce Development and Service Center, Zhang Jianhua, chairman of Hiking Group and Liu Duping, president of Hiking Group attended the ceremony. Nearly 300 representatives of international trading enterprises from Qingdao attended the ceremony.
     Zhang Jianhua addressed the ceremony and he said Google is the world largest internet company and has the largest database and data flow in the world. While Hiking Group is a leading international trading company in Shandong Province and the largest foreign trading enterprise in Qingdao in term of import and export volume. Since its establishment in 2002, Hiking has established and maintained stable cooperation relations with over 1700 clients in 150 countries and regions and the accumulative trade volume tops 23 billion USD. In 2012, Hiking Group cooperated with other institutions and established Qingdao Foreign Trade Comprehensive Service Platform for SMEs and the platform has established cooperation relations with over 5,000 SMEs. Hiking also actively forges cross-border e-commerce comprehensive service platform- “Easy Global”.
      Mr. Kevin O’Kane presented Google Adwords Core Partner plaque to Hiking “Easy Global”. Google AdWords Shandong Experience Center, co-built by Google and Hiking Group, is the 6^th provincial experience center of Google in China. Google AdWords Shandong Experience Center will help foreign trading enterprises to precisely find their clients and further expand their overseas markets.