The devastating results for companies of global cyber-attacks Wanncry, and Petya earlier in the year reiterated the critical importance of cybersecurity to all companies. Mitigating the security risks, securing processes and finding appropriate solutions, services and products to handle security threats, vulnerabilities or even simple misconfigurations has become a business critical issue.

• 2017-09-14 | 16:00 - 17:30
• TANG III, 3d Floor, Four Seasons Hotel

The European Chamber is delighted to welcome veteran China watcher, Kerry Brown, to share some of the key ideas underpinning his most recent book, CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping, mapping Xi’s grassroots climb from banished farmhand to one of the most powerful leaders in modern Chinese history.

• 2017-09-12 | 09:00 - 10:30
• QINGI, 5th Floor, Four Seasons Hotel

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to an Exclusive Dialogue with Mr Ye Wei, Deputy Director General of Department of Foreign Investment Administration, MOFCOM to interpret Guo Fa [2017] No. 39.

• 2017-09-08 | 10:00 - 11:30
• Rosewood Beijing Hotel, Ballroom, 2nd Floor

The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to welcome Sarah Qin, chief consultant, EBS, to interpret the new policies and assess the impact these changes will have on HR practitioners at the working level.

• 2017-09-07 | 15:00 - 17:00
• Rosewood Beijing Hotel, Salon 201, 2nd Floor

In their recently released report The Fat Tech Dragon: Baseline Trends in China’s Innovation Drive, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) have sought to make a quantitative assessment of where China stands in terms of innovation. In doing so they have assessed a wide range of macro-economic indicators; going beyond simply measuring R&D as a percentage of GDP, to paint a broader picture of the China innovation, its links to industrial policy, and its implications for companies; both Chinese and multinational.

• 2017-09-06 | 09:30 - 11:00
• Four Seasons Hotel, Tang III

Increasing the depth and quality of the overburdened healthcare system continues to be a priority for the Chinese government at the highest political level, as highlighted by the strategic plan “Healthy China 2030” and the mid-term targets laid down in the 13th Five Year Plan.

• 2017-07-13 | 16:00 - 18:00
• Four Seasons Hotel, Beijing Ballroom

You've heard of Overcapacity, Supply Side Reform, China Manufacturing 2025, Shadow Banking, Cybersecurity Law. .. China's proposed Social Credit System is the biggest topic you aren't talking about. Don't miss this opportunity to begin to get familiar with a soon to be business critical issue.

• 2017-07-11 | 09:00 - 10:30
• Westin Chaoyang Hotel, Chaoyang Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Beijing

Shadow Banks are a new aspect of capitalism in China – barely regulated, highly risky, yet tolerated by Beijing. They have been permitted to flourish because many companies cannot get access to formal bank loans. It is the Wild West of banking in China.

• 2017-07-07 | 09:00 - 10:30
• Four Seasons Hotel, QING I

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