This year marks the 20th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The past two decades of China’s WTO membership coincided with phenomenal economic and trade growth in the country. While the reforms undertaken by China over these years have significantly accelerated cross-border trade flows and led to it becoming the largest global trader in goods and second largest trader in services, debate persists over how and to what extent China has implemented its WTO commitments.

On 9th December, this year’s annual conference will deliver insightful commentary on China’s 20 years of engagement with the WTO, how the country is expected to position itself as the WTO evolves, and the ways China can contribute to WTO reform and revitalise the multilateral trade mechanism. Through keynote speeches and panel discussions, our guest speakers (former chief trade negotiators, think tank experts and global business leaders) will present their perspectives on these topics, and examine how to preserve the core values of the multilateral trade system in the years to come.

• 2021-12-09 | 13:00 - 17:00
• Beijing Ballroom, 3F, Four Seasons Hotel

After China’s proposal for a ‘Global Data Security Initiative’ in September 2020, China has stepped up its cyber-related legislation in 2021 with an unprecedented speed. This is especially reflected through the promulgation of two data related superordinate laws that will work together with the Cybersecurity Law: one is the Data Security Law (DSL), which came into effect since 1st September 2021, and the other being the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), to be enacted on 1st November 2021.
The European Chamber is delighted to invite our members to our next annual Cybersecurity Conference, where we invite the right experts, at the right time, to decipher the increasingly complicated cybersecurity management framework in China to better prepare our audience to what is coming or is present.

• 2021-10-26 | 12:30 - 17:30
• Second Floor, Wangfu Ballroom, The Peninsula Beijing | 北京王府半岛酒店二层

On 23rd September, the European Chamber will release its European Business in China Position Paper 2021/2022, the culmination of six months dedicated work by our 35 working groups and sub-working groups. This year’s Executive Position Paper looks into the 14th Five-year Plan (FYP), and identifies areas of risk and opportunity, both for European businesses and for China’s economy.

• 2021-09-23 | 14:00 - 15:30
• QING II & III, 5F, Four Seasons Hotel, Liangmaqiao Road No. 48, Chaoyang District, Beijing

With support from the EU Commission, EU Delegation, Chinese counterparts, European and Chinese Banks, this event will be an efficient dialogue platform to highlight EU-China cooperation on financial sectors, and bring together regulators and industry players to exchange views and help to facilitate challenges for a better market development.

• 2021-05-19 | 09:00 - 12:30
• 3rd floor, Jade Ballroom C, Kempinski Hotel, Beijing | 北京凯宾斯基饭店三层翡翠宴会厅C

Carbon Neutrality goal is a long and hard topic. Our members may be interested in knowing about the general and thorough picture on this political and economic objective. We would like to bring some government representatives, companies’ management and experts together to share the knowledge, experience and advice on Carbon Neutrality in Europe and China. The activities will be co-organized with CIETC (Centre for International Economic and Technological Cooperation ) of MIIT in a series of meetings on the topics of general policy and practice in EU and China, energy transition\ ETS\ carbon taxation, green transportation, green supply chain, and others.

• 2021-04-26 | 14:00 - 17:00
• C405, European Chamber Beijing Office / Zoom online