China Inc. continues to go global. While the days of purchasing football clubs may be over, investment in high technology and in modern services still remains on the governments ‘encouraged’ list providing a myriad of opportunities for European companies seeking capital and for the third parties needed to facilitate these deals.

• 2017-10-26 | 09:00 - 12:00
• Four Seasons Hotel, 5th Floor, QINGII&III

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

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

March Automotive Roundtable
- How to Keep Pace with New Regulations for the Automotive Market?

• 2017-03-28 | 18:00 - 21:00
• German Restaurant Brotzeit (for dinner) & German Centre for Industry and Trade Beijing Co. Ltd. (for seminar)

On November 8th 2016, France adopted a new anti-corruption law “Sapin 2”. This new legislation gives French authorities an increased remit to prosecute French companies for corrupt practices overseas. What are the immediate implications and best practices for French companies to prevent, detect and ensure their anti-corruption and compliance policies remain in line with this updated legislation.

• 2017-03-23 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Beijing Chapter, 4th Floor, Office C411A, Lufthansa Centre

The European Chamber is delighted to welcome industry commentator James Stent to share his unique insight on the state of the domestic Chinese banking system and to explain why he is contending the largely negative media perception of the sector. European Chamber President, Joerg Wuttke, will moderate a Q&A session in follow up to Mr Stents’ presentation.

• 2017-03-22 | 08:30 - 10:00
• European Chamber Beijing Chapter, 4th Floor, Office C411A, Lufthansa Centre

Together with CCUD under NDRC, the European Chamber would like to invite you to the seminar on common market under the umbrella of the Belt and Road Initiative to address prosepcts, policy framework, opportunities and chanllenges for both Chinese and European Companies.

• 2017-03-19 | 14:00 - 17:30
• International Convention Center,C&D Hotel Putian,Fujian Province

The EU-China Innovation Platform on Sustainable Urbanisation – URBAN-EU-CHINA – will strengthen the cooperation between EU and China on sustainable urbanisation. The platform will engage a wide range of stakeholders in a common effort to create sustainable cities.
Urbanisation is complex and cross-sectoral by nature. To promote sustainable urbanisation we need to engage policy-makers, national authorities, industry, cities, research institutions and civil society, says Annemie Wyckmans, URBAN-EU-CHINA project manager.

• 2017-03-19 | 08:30 - 17:00
• International Convention Center,C&D Hotel Putian,Fujian Province

This event has been cancelled. Please note the author will be delivering a similar presentation on Wednesday 15th March, 19:30 at the Bookworm.

• 2017-03-16 | 08:30 - 10:00
• European Chamber Beijing Chapter, 4th Floor, Office C411A, Lufthansa Centre

Even if we don’t take into account companies who may be actively cutting headcount, employee turnover and occasional employee disputes are an unavoidable reality. Companies need to protect themselves and ensure they are ready to deal with the difficulties of terminating an employee, especially one who they feel may be engaging in practices that are corrupt or potentially damaging to the company’s reputation.

• 2017-03-14 | 08:30 - 10:00
• Westin Chaoyang Hotel, Water Room, 3rd Floor, Beijing