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

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

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