On 23rd September, the European Chamber Shanghai Chapter will launch the European Business in China Position Paper 2024/2025 (Position Paper 2024/2025), the culmination of six months dedicated work by our 50 working groups, sub-working groups, desks and fora. This year’s Executive Position Paper focuses on the lack of progress made by the Chinese authorities on pro-business reform pledges announced in the past year.

• 2024-09-23 | 14:30 - 16:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office 欧盟商会上海分会办公室

The European Chamber Shanghai Chapter is delighted to invite you to have a meeting with the Minister Counsellor for Trade at the EU Delegation to China Ms Marjut Hannonen Friday, 13th September, in our Shanghai office.

• 2024-09-13 | 14:30 - 16:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office 中国欧盟商会上海办公室

On 11th September, the European Chamber will publish its European Business in China Position Paper 2024/2025 (Position Paper 2024/2025), the culmination of six months dedicated work by our 50 working groups, sub-working groups, desks and fora. This year’s Executive Position Paper focuses on the lack of progress made by the Chinese authorities on pro-business reform pledges announced in the past year.

• 2024-09-11 | 14:00 - 16:00
• Beijing Ballroom, 3F, Four Seasons Hotel

In today's world, technology is not only the source of many environmental and social problems but also the key to addressing them. Rising global ecological challenges, such as habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, and resource overexploitation, have intensified the international focus on biodiversity and nature protection. As technology rapidly advances, it offers transformative opportunities to address some of the world’s most pressing ecological and environmental challenges. This includes but is not limited to, resource-efficient manufacturing processes, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital solutions that enhance environmental protection and social welfare.

• 2024-09-04 | 14:30 - 19:00
• The Langham Xintiandi, 2nd Floor 上海新天地朗廷酒店二楼

The digital transformation of companies involves a set of substantial changes in all areas of the organisation. In talent management, obtaining talent and enhance their development has become a major challenge for today’s organisations and strong leadership plays a vital role in fostering innovation outcomes in organisations. Keeping employees engaged and developing them into talent through employee empowerment is essential for businesses to reduce talent turnover.
At this year’s annual HR Conference, the European Chamber is delighted to invite experts to present their talent management processes and discuss ways of upgrading the mindset of a HR department to help the organisation adapt to the digital era.

• 2024-08-29 | 14:00 - 17:00
• The Westin Bund Center Shanghai, Diamond Ballroom Ⅲ, 3rd floor

The 2024 European elections mark the beginning of a new chapter for the European Union. The incoming Members of the European Parliament will be pivotal in appointing key EU positions and will have a significant influence on shaping and enacting new EU legislation. They will also play a critical role in ratifying new trade agreements and policies.

• 2024-08-22 | 16:00 - 17:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office 中国欧盟商会上海办公室 & Teams

The Third Plenum is widely considered one of the most important events in China's political agenda and is usually focused on various aspects of policy reform for the country. From 15th to 18th July, China held the Third Plenum, a major conference held every five years to chart the overall direction of the country's long-term economic and social policies. This year, the plenum has set a new economic blueprint for China, including pushing for high-quality development, building institutions to support comprehensive innovation, and improving the mechanisms for high-level opening up.

• 2024-08-07 | 14:30 - 17:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office 中国欧盟商会上海办公室 & Teams

* The event is held in Chinese language.

本次活动语言为中文。

In order to tap into the outstanding companies in production safety management, motivate more companies to strengthen the understanding for production safety, and then comprehensively improve the overall production safety level of production units in the city, the Office of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Work Safety and the Municipal Emergency Management Bureau, in cooperation with the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (European Chamber), would like to invite the member companies of the Chamber to sign up for the European Chamber Best Practices in Working Safety Best Practice Sharing, to share the best practices of the European companies.

• 2024-07-25 | 14:30 - 16:40
• European Chamber Shanghai Office 中国欧盟商会上海办公室

自2020年起，北京对外开放迈向“两区”新阶段，“两区”即国家服务业扩大开放综合示范区和中国“北京”自由贸易示范区
这是党中央国务院支持北京开放发展得重大举措。2024年是北京市“两区”建设发展得第四年，为进一步推动北京“两区”政策红利与上海企业共享共赢，北京市商务局拟举办上海主题沙龙活动，宣传推介北京“两区”政策优势与投资机遇，深化交流，构建沟通互动的桥梁，实现合作共赢。

• 2024-07-11 | 14:00 - 16:15
• 德勤上海办公室

On December 11th, 2001, China entered World Trade Organisation (WTO) and China market was opening since then. Over the years, China market see lots of companies and corporations around the world explore their business potential and flourish here. While pandemic comes out of sudden which has a significant impact on companies’ supply chain management and its resilience and agility. As such, businesses no matter company size is multinational or small-sized enterprises, are actually thinking of and planning for their resilient supply chain and putting efforts on developing multiple supply chain possibilities.

Enterprises around the world are looking for additional and multiple supply chain option, Chinese companies are also preparing for their overseas market to echo Road and Belt Initiative put forward in 2013. Till now, it has been over 10 years for the first batch to explore overseas market, while some may succeed, and others drop out from the market. Many successful cases can be referred, others wish to look into those failure or not such successful cases to learn the lesson and experience.

To learn the insights on developing overseas business and at the meantime, foresee potential risks are essential to give a taste of your potential plan in developing market abroad. As such, join us at the seminar on July 9th to hear from industry insiders and experienced professional to hear their stories about exploring overseas market from local and international perspectives.

• 2024-07-09 | 14:00 - 17:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office