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Unlocking China's Cleantech Market: Key Strategies for Australia Innovators

Written by
Lynne Bian
Published on
July 17, 2025

Unlocking China’s Cleantech Market: Key Strategies for Australian Innovators

This roundtable brought together senior voices from industry, investment, government, and research to spark real dialogue on the opportunities and challenges in cross-border cleantech collaboration. From battery manufacturing and green metals to policy gaps and funding barriers, our conversations were comprehensive and frank.

Guest speakers

Huge thanks to our incredible speakers and panelists for sharing their knowledge and experience:

 🔹Tom Parker 裴仁杰 – National CEO of Australia China Business Council (ACBC)

🔹 Patrick Mayoh - CEO of Australia China Business Council ACBC NSW

🔹 Lizzie Lu – Partner at Baker McKenzie

🔹 Raymond Lou – Partner at Baker McKenzie

🔹 Zane Zhou – CEO of CATL - Energy Storage Solution Provider Oceania

🔹 Housheng Zhou – Investor at StB Capital Partners

🔹 Paul Fox - Co-founder and CSO of Evie Networks

🔹 Kirk McDonald - Program Manager, @Supercharge Australia - New Energy Nexus & EnergyLab

🔹 Andrew Wilkie - Senior Director of Investments at Breakthrough Victoria

🔹 Blair Pritchard - Partner at Virescent Ventures

🔹 Mick Liubinskas - CEO, Co-founder at Climate Salad

🔹 Gabriella Nunes - Research & Commercialisation Director, Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy (TRaCE) at UNSW

🔹 Max Lau – Head of Business & Talent Attraction / Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong Sydney

🔹 Nick Hazell - Founder and CEO of Algenie

🔹 Tong Xie - Founder and CEO of GreenDynamics

🔹 Alinta Furnell - Co-Founder and CEO of Synbiote

Key takeaway

In our afternoon roundtable discussion, we addressed:

✓ We must scale renewables faster and align manufacturing with innovation.

✓ Design in Australia can also provide a pathway to manufacturing in Australia

✓ Joint ventures with Chinese firms could unlock real tech deployment and scale innovation

✓ Australia’s cleantech ventures face a funding valley post-Series A — international capital required to bridge this gap.

✓ Diplomatic momentum (like the 10-year anniversary of CHAFTA and PM’s visit to China) gives us a powerful platform to act.

Boson Ventures is grateful for the support of our partner ACBC and host Baker McKenzie in convening this event, we look forward to bringing together leaders, innovators and investors in a high-impact forum.

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