Nottingham City Council (NCC) is active internationally in three key areas of the world: China, Germany and India, working th ... rough our key sister city relationships with the cities of Ningbo (China), Karlsruhe (Germany) and Chandigarh (India). We believe that building strong relationships with these areas enables Nottingham to be an important city for international trade and investment and raises our capacity to develop a strong economy in Nottingham. NCC work closely with our business community, facilitating them to develop international relationships and working with them to build relevant city-to-city collaborations to the benefit of both areas. Through this, we aim to display and grow our key business sectors: Life Sciences, Creative & Digital, High Value Manufacturing and Clean Technologies. Through these pages, we hope you will be inspired by the great work that is being achieved by, for and through our business community, and we hope to see you at some of the fantastic activities mentioned below. read more