The next IPR Working Group meeting is scheduled on Tuesday 14 March in Beijing, Shanghai & South China where we will hold the 2017-2018 IPR Working Group Chairs elections. Next to that, we will also be kicking off the 2017/18 IPR Position Paper (PP) discussion. Therefore we strongly encourage you all to attend this meeting and have your say in our lobbying priorities, strategy and direction of the group for the year to come.

• 2017-03-14 | 09:00 - 11:30
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C411A

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the Quality and Safety Services Working Group 2017 Kick-off Meeting. At the meeting, a roundtable discussion on the explosion incidents of SAMSUNG Galaxy Note 7 will be conducted along with a presentation on a joint research project with the State Council Development and Research Center.

• 2017-03-13 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C411A

Following the gesture made by President Xi at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January in further opening up and boosting foreign investment in China, the State Council issued the Notice on Several Measures on Promoting Further Openness and Active Utilization of Foreign Investment on 17 January, 2017. To offer a comprehensive perspective on the opportunities and challenges for the environmental protection and energy conservation sectors in the coming years, the chamber will invite representatives from ECIPU of MOFCOM to introduce government-level projects and have a roundtable discussion regarding the regulatory environment with our members in these sectors.

• 2017-03-10 | 09:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C411A

According to the PRC Disabled Persons Security Law, which became effective on 1st July, 2008, enterprises are obliged to hire disabled persons as a specified ratio of their total staff.
In order to strengthen implementation of the PRC Disabled Persons Security Law, on 9th September, 2015, the Ministry of Finance, the State Tax Bureau and the China Disabled Persons Federation jointly issued the Methods on Levying, Use and Management of Disabled Persons’ Employment Security Fund (Methods‌). The Methods stipulate that all enterprises in China must make contributions to the Fund if they do not hire a sufficient number of disabled persons.

• 2017-03-09 | 15:00 - 17:00
• Marriott Hotel Northeast, Salon 5, B2 Floor

The Aviation and Aerospace Working Group cordially invites you to the next working group meeting on Tuesday March 7th, from 4:00-6:00 pm at EUCCC Sennheiser room. At this meeting, we will host the 2017 chair election and organize discussions to identify the advocacy priorities for the Aviation and Aerospace Working Group for the year ahead.

• 2017-03-07 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Sennheiser Room

2016 was an intense year for policymaking and reform in many logistics-related sectors, including shipping industry, express delivery, road transport and customs affairs. 2017 is critical as we will see the implementation of the new policies and a deepening of the reform. The Logistics Working Group is going to organise its first working group meeting in 2017 to discuss the challenges we will face in the years to come and our lobby strategy and focus in 2017.

• 2017-03-07 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C411A

Insurance Position Paper discussion

• 2017-03-03 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber

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

The Automotive Working Group cordially invites you to the next working group meeting on Wednesday March 1st, from 2:30-4:30pm at EUCCC’s conference room. At this meeting, we will host the 2017 chair election and organize discussions to identify the advocacy priorities for the automotive working group for the year ahead.

• 2017-03-01 | 14:30 - 16:30
• Sennheiser Room, EUCCC

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