The European Chamber, together with the China Academy for Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) and the Seconded European Standardization Expert for China (SESEC), invites you to the first in a series of exchanges exploring on digital policy and standardisation efforts in both Europe and China. This first meeting will focus on AI policy and standardisation, and it will take place offline in Beijing on 10th April 2024 from 15:00 to 17:00. Joining the discussion offline to discuss the topic from a variety of angles will be Ms Margot Dor, Director of Government Affairs at ETSI, Wu Tongning, Deputy Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Research Center at the CAICT, Maggie Yin, Vice President of Government Affairs at RELX, and Michael Chang, Chair of the ICT Working Group at the European Chamber.

• 2024-04-10 | 15:00 - 17:00
• European Chamber Beijing Office

The EU SME Centre and the European Chamber Carbon Market Working Group are glad to invite Director Ma Jun from the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) and industry players across China to explore the recent practices on corporate green supply chain management, the critical role of SMEs and challenges they face, and the different approaches large enterprises can adopt to support their SME partners throughout the supply chain to improve their environmental performance.

• 2024-03-19 | 15:00 - 16:30
• European Chamber Office Beijing | Online

During this event, experts on Chinese intellectual property (IP) regulations will share the latest updates on China’s IP landscape, with a focus on the issues that will matter most for SMEs while navigating 2024.

• 2024-02-27 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

The EU SME Centre and the European Chamber are thus pleased to invite you to join our upcoming Policy Meeting, where two experts will explore both China’s current energy landscape – with a focus on renewables – and also pathways for international engagement. The meeting will be off-the-record and held under Chatham House rules.

• 2023-12-19 | 10:30 - 12:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing

How can French enterprises get a deeper understanding of the particularities and complexities of the Chinese market, so as to better adapt to and integrate in an era of digital transformation？How can Chinese companies fully understand and adapt to the French market, to better "go global" in an era of globalization? This forum will invite representatives from China and France’s governments, business communities, and academic circles to engage in in-depth discussions on these questions and more. In the process, they will promote bilateral business exchanges along with the stable and far-reaching development of Sino-French relations, jointly helping to write a new chapter of cooperation for the future.

• 2023-11-16 | 16:00 - 19:00
• China Europea International Business School (CEIBS)

Forum Background

The comprehensive strategic partnership between the European Union (EU) and China turns 20 this year. Over the past two decades the EU and China, two of the world’s leading economies, have engaged in mutually beneficial cooperation in a win-win manner and achieved significant success in fields such as politics, economy, culture, and science. As of the end of 2022, EU-China bilateral trade volume reached $847.3 billion, with each side the second-largest trading partner of the other. The stock of two-way investment between China and the EU has exceeded $230 billion, benefiting people on both sides and contributing greatly to world peace and economic prosperity.

Looking ahead, the two sides hold great potential for cooperation and share common interests in promoting economic growth and financial stability, coping with the energy crisis, curbing inflation, and pursuing green and digital transitions. As such, they have decided to set up a financial working group under the China-EU High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue (HED) mechanism to strengthen cooperation in financial areas such as financial liberalisation, infrastructure, and regulation, as well as sustainable finance and fintech. However, some tension does exist within the relationship – EU authorities have recently opened an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric car imports, for example.

• 2023-11-14 | 16:30 - 19:10
• CEIBS Shanghai Campus

This event serves as a platform to connect European SMEs with the Chinese local government for deep engagement and networking, as well as an opportunity to discuss the issues, recommendations, and possible solutions to the key issues impacting European SMEs operating in China with industry players, local associations, and experts in government relations.

• 2023-10-11 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

On 18th July from 9:00-10:30, the EU SME Centre and the European Chamber will hold a Policy Meeting to discuss the various aspects of the current SOE-POE policy dynamics in China. Speakers invited are Nicholas Lardy, non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Ran Tao, professor in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK).

• 2023-07-18 | 09:00 - 10:30
• Zoom

The EU SME Centre, IP SME Helpdesk and the European Chamber are thus happy to invite you to join our next Working Group meeting, where three experts will share practical tips on how to create a sound strategy to leverage China’s E-Commerce ecosystem and on how to prevent and address IP infringements in this space.

• 2023-06-14 | 15:00 - 17:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405 | Zoom

The European Chamber and the EU SME Centre, together with the China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (CASME), is pleased to invite you to our upcoming Working Group meeting, where Ms Chen Jing, Vice President of CASME, will present the latest SME Development Index, the support measures available to EU SMEs in China and the SME business prospects in 2023. The meeting will be conducted in Chinese, and English interpretation will be made available.

• 2023-04-12 | 15:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing | Zoom