The Investment Working Group is pleased to invite you to the meeting “M&A 2020: Analysis and Outlook”, which is taking place on Thursday, November 12th, 17:00-18:30 (China time), both online (via Zoom) and on-site at the European Chamber’s Shanghai office.

• 2020-11-12 - 2020-11-12 | 17:00 - 18:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Zoom

The European Chamber is thus pleased to invite you to join our upcoming Working Group meeting on the 3rd November from 16:00 to 17:30, where Ms Mandy Luo, Project Coordinator at the International Digital Cooperation project on ICT standardisation (InDiCo), will present the findings of a dedicated study concluded in September 2020 on the landscape for association standards in China in the ICT and emerging technologies sectors.

• 2020-11-03 | 16:00 - 17:30
• Zoom/Beijing and Shanghai offices

What are the roadblocks encountered by these? The EU SME Centre and the European Chamber are pleased to invite you to our first Working Group meeting of Phase III of the Centre, where three expert panelists will discuss SME financing from the perspectives of banking, innovation funding and consumer finance. The meeting will take place on Monday, 2nd November from 16:00-17:30 both online and offline.

• 2020-11-02 | 16:00 - 17:30
• Zoom/Beijing Offices

The Heating, Quality and Safety Services (QSS) and Standards and Conformity Assessment (SCA) Working Groups are pleased to invite you to the next working group meeting on the implementation situation and outlook on CCC system with officials from the Certification Supervision and Management Division, State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR).

• 2020-10-30 | 14:30 - 16:00
• European Chamber Office Shanghai, 22nd Floor, Room 2204

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next Auto Components Working Group Meeting in Shanghai, which will take place on 23rd October from 10am. At the meeting, Mr. Felix Koo, Vice President of Schaeffler Automotive Aftermarket Greater China as well as Chair of the Auto Components Working Group, will deliver a presentation on Digital Evolution - ETC B2b Expert Supply Chain Platform.

• 2020-10-23 | 10:00 - 11:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

As the regulatory landscape evolves and new challenges arise for companies, general counsels and compliance departments have become increasingly important, helping organisations to adapt. As such, there is significant pressure on compliance professionals to ensure that companies meet their obligations.
The skillset of General Counsels and Compliance officers has had to increase in tandem with the volume and complexity of regulations. Where once compliance officers operated like lawyers, now they also need to be techies with a deep understanding of the technology estate. It is a multi-dimensional challenge.

• 2020-10-20 | 14:30 - 17:15
• Juss Hengshan Hotel

The Human Resources and Construction Working Groups are pleased to invite you to the meeting “The Office of Tomorrow: How Remote Work Shapes Design and the Workspace as We Know It”, which is taking place on Friday, 16th October, 15:30-17:00 (China time).

• 2020-10-16 - 2020-10-16 | 15:30 - 17:00
• IWG Space Infinitus Tower, European Chamber Beijing Office, Zoom

During these past nine months, the Chairs of the working group overcame difficulties and led the WG to see things happen: the drafting of the Consumer Finance & Non-Banking Financial Institutions Position Paper was realised, a meeting with Shanghai Municipal Financial Bureau was held, a lobby letter advocating for factoring was sent and several comments on leasing regulation have been submitted to CBIRC. On top of that our counterparts at the EU Delegation has become increasingly aware of our industry and the issues we face thanks to our continued activities. To see through our end goal of establishing a level playing field and build a platform for strong EU-China cooperation, more advocacies will need to be carried out in the second half of the year, and we are especially looking forward to realise WG members’ expectation on sales and lease back and factoring business advocacies.

• 2020-10-15 | 12:00 - 14:00
• The Kitchen Table, W Hotel Shanghai

Innovation and R&D constitute the prime drivers of long-term competitiveness and sustainable development for companies across geographies; at this meeting, Jason Yu, Tax Director, and Blaze Wang, Tax Manager of KPMG China (bios attached) will start from addressing some of the common hurdles companies face in filing R&D incentive applications and then proceed to unravel the steps that enable China-based entities to fully enjoy R&D deductions.

• 2020-10-15 - 2020-10-15 | 15:30 - 17:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, European Chamber Beijing Office, Zoom

The European Chamber Working Groups are delighted to invite you to our next meeting on the unspoken parts of the 'New Infrastructure Plans', where members will discuss the costs and impacts of new energy vehicles to the logistics industry.

• 2020-10-14 | 10:00 - 11:30
• European Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai office, big Meeting room