Each member company may receive one complimentary ticket to the Position Paper launch. Additional participants from the same company will be charged RMB 150 for admission.
The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is delighted to invite you to the launch of the European Business in China – Position Paper 2019/2020.
One of the biggest challenges facing European companies in China is the perpetuation of China’s ‘economic caste system’, which distinguishes companies by ownership, and favours state-owned over private and local over foreign. This biased economic structure pits finance-starved private companies against the unnaturally enhanced, inefficient SOEs that are at the core of China’s structural problems. The continuation of this system is doing little to inspire the European business communities’ long-term confidence in China’s economy.
Fortunately, there is no consensus that this is the correct economic course for China to maintain, with loud and prominent voices from within the government having voiced support for the concept of ‘competitive neutrality’. This idea, originally developed in Australia and then embraced widely across OECD countries, begins with the simple premise that the government should not provide special treatment to any given enterprise. Embracing this, while also reinvigorating SOE reform, can resolve the foundational problems that are limiting China’s development.
To help achieve this, the European Chamber has proposed a series of bold recommendations to the Chinese Government, which require it to undertake considerable unilateral changes that are in its best interests while also strengthening the common market and creating the kind of environment in which all companies can thrive.
>> Agenda:
9:20 – 10:00 Registration & Breakfast
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome remarks by Frank Schreiber, Vice Chair of European Chamber Tianjin Chapter, General Manager of Airbus Tianjin
10:15 – 11:00 Presentation of the Executive Position Paper by Adam Dunnett, Secretary General, European Chamber
11:00 – 11:20 Q&A
This session is off the record
>> Language: English, with Chinese interpretation.
>> Price:
- Members: free for the first participant and RMB 150 for additional participants from the same company
- Non-members: RMB 300
One complimentary hardcopy will be given to the first participant from each member company attending.
>> Terms & Conditions
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