Why a ChinaSF in San Francisco? Part Deux

Clearly, the San Francisco municipality is proud of establishing a ChinaSf office in their city.

More reasons on why San Francisco is the best city for such an initiative keep coming out.
Here's the SFgate's take on it :

First, because SF has awesome resources - "City officials are not shy in boasting that they beat out San Jose and Los Angeles, respectively, for the honors. Why San Francisco? "There are great resources for us there - a diversified workforce and cross-cultural variations," said Yimei Wong, a Trina Solar executive who will be managing the office. "

Second , because "Surely, San Francisco's demographics didn't hurt, either."

and third, because of the strong cultural ties San Francisco and Shanghai share :

"Cultural ties that bind: Asian Art Museum chief Jay Xu gave Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel, a truly expert tour of the ancient bronzes and other treasures at the Shanghai Art Museum Tuesday. The occasion: Our Asian Art Museum, it was announced, will host a major exhibit of contemporary art from Shanghai in February 2010. This is quite a big deal for art lovers. "A blockbuster, of King Tut levels," said one city official, perhaps overreaching a little. But it's also a sign of Newsom's concerted policy of solidifying San Francisco's relationship with China, a fact that Newsom and other city officials have repeatedly emphasized on this trip."

"And, of course, where culture flows, business often follows." (emphasis added)

So there you have it : extensive resources, demographics, cultural ties... apparently and (hopefully for San Francisco) are the keys to good (foreign) business relations.