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

At this year’s annual Human Capital Conference, the European Chamber is delighted to invite CEOs and Human Resources leaders from well-known companies to provide insights on the changing trends in leadership styles, and share their best practices. There will also be a group discussion to collect and share the inputs from different industries.

• 2020-11-12 | 13:00 - 18:30
• Four Seasons Hotel, Beijing Ballroom

The EU SME Centre and the European Chamber are delighted to invite you to join the first Policy Meeting of the EU SME Centre’s Phase III, which was launched on the 1st October 2020 for an 18-month period. In this inaugural event, Mr Chen Long, Partner at Plenum, and Ms. Imogen Page-Jarrett, Research Analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, will provide a hot off the press press analysis of the Fifth Plenum, specifically with regards to China’s mid- and long-term strategy, embodied in the 14th Five-Year Plan and in the leadership’s vision for 2035. The conversation will be moderated by Mr. Renzo Isler, the newly appointed Director at the EU SME Centre.

• 2020-10-30 | 10:00 - 11:30
• Four Seasons Beijing Tang I, third floor

Upgrading its healthcare system has been one of China’s major reform priorities in recent years, with the provision of advanced, innovative medical devices at the core of this plan. Medical devices play a crucial role in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, so they are key to China’s goal of improving the overall health of the population, as laid out in the government strategy ‘Healthy China 2030’.
The European Chamber is delighted to hold its second Medical Device Forum On 29th October in Beijing, co-hosted by the European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR), under the theme “The ‘New Normal’ in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Innovation Drives ‘Healthy China’”.
医疗改革一直是中国改革进程的首要议题。医疗器械在预防、诊断和治疗疾病方面发挥着至关重要的作用。《“健康中国2030”规划纲要》提出改善人民健康水平的目标，而医疗器械正是实现这一目标的关键。
为促进产业发展、三医联动，中国欧盟商会协同欧洲放射、电子医学与卫生信息技术行业协会(COCIR)，定于2020年10月29日在北京举办第二届医疗器械论坛。本届会议主题为“后疫情时代的新常态—创新助力‘健康中国’”。

• 2020-10-29 | 09:00 - 17:05
• First Floor, Infinity Ballroom, Hilton Beijing | 北京希尔顿酒店一层 天元宫

联合国妇女署中国办公室将于 10 月23日举办在线讲座“关注雇主责任——与企业相关的性别平等法律及政策”。智联招聘为此次讲座的支持机构。

• 2020-10-23 | 10:00 - 11:15
• ZOOM在线会议

Despite presenting serious challenges throughout 2020, COVID-19 has not managed to impact the ineluctable roll-out of new, significant pieces of Cybersecurity implementation rules and draft laws in China. One notable release was the draft Data Security Law in July 2020. China’s determination to more-stringently regulate its cyberspace have been paralleled by a doubling of compliance endeavours from foreign businesses in China, which has increased both the cost and the operational burden of doing business, at least in the short-term.
In order to examine how the Cybersecurity Law and the Data Security Draft Law will coexist, and what the long-term impact will be on European companies operating in China, the European Chamber as assembled a distinguished group of government representatives, lawyers, security experts and industry representatives to discuss this topic at its annual Cybersecurity Conference.

• 2020-10-22 | 13:30 - 18:30
• Second Floor, Wangfu Ballroom, The Peninsula Beijing | 北京王府半岛酒店二层