European Union Chamber of Commerce in China 
Automotive and Auto Components Working Groups
Joint Working Group Meeting

Date: January 24th, 9-10.30am 
Venue: European Chamber offices  
Beijing Office: Office C-411A, Beijing Lufthansa Centre, 50 Liangmaqiao Rd, Chaoyang District.
Shanghai Office: 333 Huai Hai Middle Road, Unit 2204 (22nd floor), Shui On Plaza (Via videoconference, speaker in Beijing) .

Registration:Please kindly register with Ms. Isabella Fu at ifu@europeanchamber.com.cn before COB 18th January 2014, specifying if you will attend in Beijing or Shanghai. 

Dear Working Group Members,

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next Joint Automotive and Auto Components Working Group Meeting in Shanghai and Beijing via videoconference, which will take place on 24th January from 9am. At the meeting, Mr. John Jullens, Partner at Booz & Company will deliver a presentation on Racing to the Bottom. As the Chinese low-end market gains in importance, Western automakers and suppliers must decide whether, and if so how, to enter this segment, adapt their business models, develop low-end engineering and manufacturing capabilities, and defend their competitive positions against local Chinese players.  The presentation will offer a perspective and potential solutions to all of these questions. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session and an interactive discussion on the topic. 

Mr. John Jullens is a Partner at Booz & Company with more than twenty years of management consulting and industry experience in North America, Europe, and Asia. He currently co-leads the firm’s engineered products & services practice in Greater China. He has advised numerous multinational and local Chinese companies on a wide range of strategic challenges, including market entry into China as well as international expansion out of China and how to achieve top-line growth through organic and inorganic means. He blogs at www.johnjullens.com and writes a monthly column for Strategy & Business (“Global Perspective”) and the CEIBS Business Review (“The Practical Strategist”). In addition, he is a regular contributor to such leading business publications as China Daily, Financial Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Shanghai Business Review, and the Wall Street Journal. He currently resides in Shanghai with his wife and daughter.

Also we will be honored to have Secretary General, Mr. Wei Tongwei, the person we met with during the MOT visit last August in Beijing,  who comes to us while reading the position paper of the EUCCC, and would like to introduce the Ministry of Commerce and MOT newly about to launch work on the Chinese auto components market traceability system, Mr. Wei willing of given explanation session to our members and seek for the awareness in this market, which I think would be of great value for our members.

Agenda

1. Presentation by Mr. John Jullens on Racing to the Bottom

2. Q&A and discussion

3. Any other business

4. Introduce by Mr. Wei Tongwei in Chinese with interpretations (10.30 – 11.30)

at tqi@europeanchamber.com.cn in Shanghai.

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