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 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

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)

Adventure Tour 探险之旅

• 2017-10-13 | 09:00 - 16:10
• Dujiangyan Andaman Village 安缇缦国际旅游度假区

The European Chamber is delighted to be joined by authors Philippe Le Corre and Alain Sepulchre, who in their new book China’s Offensive in Europe, study the trends, sectors, and target countries of Chinese investments in Europe to explain why they consider China’s investment strategy in Europe as ‘a contrasting mix of economic opportunism and strategic vision’. The authors will highlight the broader impact of these changing patterns of investment; including the increasingly vocal calls for reciprocity from foreign companies investing in China.

• 2017-03-01 | 08:30 - 10:30
• Four Seasons Hotel Beijing, 3rd Floor, TANG I

Gender equality is one of the greatest accomplishments of Finland during its hundred years of independence. And reciprocally, gender equality has enabled the rise of Finland from a poor agricultural nation to a modern and stable country on top of the world in education, innovation and freedom.

• 2017-02-28 | 16:30 - 18:00
• The residence of the Ambassador of Finland to China

This seminar will be hosted by tax expertise from Price Waterhouse Coopers, and aims to give an overview of practice and impact of B2V so that foreign decision makers can be prepared to embrace the changes and choose the most economical way of running a business in China.
本研讨会将邀请普华永道税务部的专家，与您分享营改增的法规要点、政策解读和行业代表性问题。

• 2017-02-28 | 14:30 - 18:00
• Kempinski Hotel

Full of prosperity tea culture, presenting Chinese tea culture history, processing of making tea and tea-tasting culture. Tea art performance, zither performance and tea tasting.

满园春色茶文化（了解中国茶文化历史，制茶工序，品茶顺序等。观赏茶艺表演，欣赏中国古筝，品中国名茶。）

• 2017-02-18 | 14:00 - 16:00
• 2nd Floor of Yulong City at Middle Street

On 25 December 2016, the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress adopted China’s first Environmental Protection Tax Law (the Law). The Law is poised to replace the existing pollutant discharge fee system with a pollution tax as the main economic tool regulating environmental pollution by businesses in China. This historic development is expected to have sweeping impacts on enterprises’ compliance with China’s environmental regulations.

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to an exclusive session with Mr. Lian Qifeng, Deputy Director General, Property and Behavior Tax Department of the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) to interpret the newly interpreted law.

• 2017-02-15 | 14:30 - 16:30
• Four Seasons Hotel Beijing, 5th Floor, QING II + III

How A High Quality Commercial Contract Can Protect Your Business

• 2017-02-10 | 16:00 - 18:00
• Xiling Gorge, 4F, Radisson Blu Plaza Chongqing