The European Chamber, South China Chapter invites Members to join the meeting with Bureau of Commerce of Foshan.

• 2016-11-29 | 10:00 - 11:30
• Bureau of Commerce of Foshan佛山市商务局

New Opportunities for European Business in Dongguan

• 2016-11-25 | 09:00 - 10:00
• Yingbin Hall, Second Floor, Administrative Service Center Main Building

On 21st November, the EU SME Centre hold a conference on Regulation updates on China’s cross-border e-commerce and free trade zones.

• 2016-11-21 | 13:30 - 18:00
• Room Marigold, 3rd floor, Garden Hotel

Given that in the last two years, China’s 13th 5-Year Plan was adopted, ‘Made in China 2025’ promoted, the High & New Technology Enterprise Regulations substantially amended, and an entirely new IP-Courts system implemented, and that the next two years will see far reaching amendments to both China’s Patent Law (the much heralded ‘4th Amendment’) and Employee-Inventor Remuneration Regulations, speaking of the “new normal” for China, most definitely does not apply to changes to the Framework for IP nor for Innovation.

• 2016-11-18 | 09:00 - 12:00
• Jones Day Shanghai Office

We are happy to inform you that on 17th November 16:00 pm (Beijing time) 9:00am (Brussels time), Mrs. Barbara BONVISSUTO (Deputy Head of Automotive Unit of the DG Grow) will give our Chamber members a debriefing on their 6th Plenary bilateral dialogue and consultation mechanism on industrial sectors(Automotive sector) with the Chinese MIIT in late October 2016 in Beijing.

• 2016-11-17 | 16:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204, 333 Middle Huaihai Road, Shui On Plaza, Shanghai

Dear Compliance & Business Ethics Working Group Members,

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next Compliance and Business Ethics working group meeting. It will be held on Thursday 17th November 09:00 - 10:30 at the European Chamber in Shanghai and Beijing.

• 2016-11-17 | 09:00 - 10:30
• European Chamber office Shanghai

Outperform your competition by professionally launching, marketing and selling your products and services by designing powerful marketing strategy, performing targeted marketing research, structuring marketing plans and executing them successfully.

• 2016-11-15 | 08:30 - 17:00
• The European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

Building cultural understanding and adaptability for international assignees to China is a critical method to increase ROI by improving an assignee’s results and reducing the risk of failed assignments. During this one-day training, you will have a clear understanding of the impact of culture on working styles in China, identify cultural gaps that may act as blocks and gain specific methods to adapt more effectively. You will also have clear ideas about how to communicate differences with locals and create better teamwork, trust and results.

• 2016-11-14 | 09:00 - 17:00
• Block 3 Floor 19, Xunmei Science and Technology Square

We are pleased to invite you to an upcoming joint meeting between ICT, Cybersecurity, Information Security, SCA and Legal & Competition Working Groups, which will take place on Friday 11 November, 2016, from 10h to 12h, at the European Chamber’s Beijing and Shanghai offices via video conference.

• 2016-11-11 | 10:00 - 12:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

As an indispensable pillar of corporate social responsibility to facilitate equal employment opportunities, various good practices among different industries have been done to promote the integration of people of disabilities, including their proactive contributions to the Employment Security Fund for Persons with Disability.

On 9th September 2015, the Ministry of Finance, the State Bureau for Taxation and the China Disabled Persons Federation jointly issued the Methods on Levying, Use and Management of Employment Security Fund for Persons with Disability No. 72 [2015] (“Methods”).

Seeing a significant change in the new calculation method for some companies, which is based on the average annual salary of the company employees instead of the previously required amount(city average annual salary) regulated by the local government, more companies are coming to the awareness that this would potentially add more challenges on their financial situation, and the need to include persons with disabilities into the business cases, especially during the period of ‘New Normal’ when the domestic economy is slowing down, despite their willingness to support equal employment.

• 2016-11-10 | 14:30 - 16:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204, 333 Middle Huaihai Road, Shui On Plaza, Shanghai