If foreign managers take on a leading position in a company in China, they have to make decisions on a daily basis to maintain the company’s operations. This seminar aims to give an overview of the main tax, finance and legal requirements for compliant business operations to all foreign decision makers in order to be prepared for the daily business tasks, and aims to raise awareness for potential pitfalls and risks in the course of running a business in China.

• 2017-10-20 | 14:00 - 17:30
• Kempinski Hotel Dalian

The European Chamber is delighted to welcome Christian Kessel, head of Bird & Bird’s International Automotive Sector Group. During the workshop he will focus on contract law issues in the automotive supply chain in China, such as general purchasing terms of OEMs, warranty issue and statutory guarantees.

• 2017-10-19 | 14:30 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Shui On Plaza, Unit 2204

We are glad to invite you to visit a member company of the European Chamber: FAW - Volkswagen in Foshan on 19th October from 13:30-16:00.

• 2017-10-19 | 13:30 - 16:00
• FAW - Volkswagen factory Foshan Branch

The European Chamber is delighted in welcoming Vivian Wu, a partner at Baker McKenzie and Lars Ake Severin, CEO at PSU China Consulting, to highlight steps companies should undertake to ensure they have appropriate compliance programs put in in place to respond to whistle blowing. This advice extends to how companies should respond if an employee brings forward accusations of misconduct or how they should react if they are subject to a dawn raid by authorities.

• 2017-10-19 | 16:00 - 18:00
• Four Seasons Hotel, QING I

Ms. Angela Mou, Vice President, Corporate Communication of Tetra Pak Greater China will share Tetra Pak’s idea and practices in driving environmental excellence, and keeping sustainability as part of the core business development and to inspire people to be part of the change through the cooperation with various partners.

• 2017-10-19 | 09:00 - 10:30
• The European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

With the new application system for foreigners’ work permit implemented on April 1st 2017 and the 2017 Foreign Permanent Resident ID starting to process in June in Shanghai, the batch of newly promulgated policies have drawn much attention as well as confusion. How has this new system been implemented in Shanghai over the past months? Which lessons can be learned from the visa application experiences in practice?

• 2017-10-18 | 16:00 - 17:50
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

The European Chamber is delighted to welcome Dr Yukon Huang, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and a former World Bank Director for China, advisor to the World Bank, ADB, AIIB and various governments and corporations, to share with participants his view on the upcoming Party Congress, based on his book “Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom is wrong”.

• 2017-10-17 | 09:00 - 10:30
• INTERCONTINENTAL SHANGHAI PUDONG

After the implementation of IATF 16949 in October 2016 China’s Auto Industry needs to update its quality management systems. Since China is holding more than 43% of all ISO/TS 16949 Certificates, it is the biggest market for Auto Quality Management System Certification and quality is the key for the success of the Chinese Automotive Industry. Therefore Automotive Roundtable will provide the platform to present and discuss the importance of quality management systems in China. The attending experts will moreover discuss potential improvements for Chinese quality management systems.

- in cooperation with Autoköpfe –
- Strategic Partner: EU Chamber –
- Event Partner: German Centre for Industry and Trade Beijing

• 2017-10-17 | 17:45 - 20:45
• German Restaurant Brotzeit (for dinner) & German Centre for Industry and Trade Beijing Co. Ltd. (for seminar)

The event will cover four key areas of discussion; Repair & Maintenance Information (RMI) databases, Automotive Product Recalls and Field Actions, Data Protection, and Independent Aftermarket.

• 2017-10-17 | 14:00 - 18:00
• Hilton Hotel Beijing, 3rd Floor, Signature Ballroom B

the European Chamber Nanjing is delighted to invite you to an information session to learn more about the recently published 14 preferential policies and related VISA regulations for foreigners to work and live in China helping employers and employees to take necessary actions.

• 2017-10-17 | 14:15 - 16:00
• 南京议事园酒店五楼吴越厅