I cross posted this to /r/china to get some input from a different community and this comment was made. Thought I would replicate it here in case anyone else finds it interesting
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From /u/ThomSEN1
Honestly the ones that are buying overseas are probably unwilling to be openly discussing it online. They aren't hedging against exchange as much as they are hedging against having to stay in China in the long run, or simply getting freehold land somewhere in the world or getting some of their net worth out of the country.
The foreigners that have networks to tap into these sorts of guys will be employees of real estate companies. The one thing you may look to do is visit display suites in first tier cities for upcoming developments. In Australia, companies like Mirvac, Sunland etc all set up sales displays SH/BJ/GZ etc to sell apartments off the plan, you might be able to make a connection by chance at one of those sort of events.
They won't be looking for bitcoin but they will likely be interested in owning some of your company, as that means they can get their name on a shareholders register somewhere overseas and as such they might be able to move money out through that. In some cases they won't even care what the company does, as long as its registered offshore. Building high net-worth connections in china is hard, (but fun, if you like long meals and 8 hour baiju/cigarette binges!). Nepotism is the name of the game unfortunately.
If you're looking for investment in the tech sector, focus on SZ/HK. Most of the money is moving to the west via the HK financial sector, and Shenzhen is clearly the tech hub so people may be more willing to adopt bitcoin or similar concepts.
Get personal business cards if you don't have them already, be prepared to hand them to everyone. You might get lucky with a mission like this but it'll be hard if you don't have some connections already unfortunately.
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