The European Chamber and the EU SME Centre are pleased to invite you to our next meeting, where SME Forum Chair and Consultant at Dezan Shira Marco Förster and EU SME Centre Advocacy Manager Ester Cañada Amela will discuss the key hurdles encountered by European SMEs in China, and how the EU SME Centre can support them grow in a challenging yet exciting market. The meeting will take place on Thursday, 17th December from 3:30PM to 4:30PM at Dezan Shira's office in Guangzhou.

• 2020-12-17 | 15:30 - 16:30
• Dezan Shira & Associates Guangzhou

The global pandemic has further accelerated the digital transformation of businesses resulting in increased reliance on e-commerce platforms, boom in the AI-related industries and digitalisation of production and delivery processes. With digitalisation of businesses, consumption too has increasingly moved online. Intellectual property (IP) is crucial to digital economy as it drives innovation and provides SMEs with comparative advantage over competitors. While digital economy brings about new IP risks like online infringements, it also creates new solutions for IP protection such as the use of blockchain technologies or reliance on sophisticated notice and take-down systems on e-commerce platforms or even the use of internet courts speeding up IP enforcement procedures. To be successful in digital economy, SMEs should focus on protecting their IP by adopting a comprehensive IP strategy taking into account the needs of digital economy.

• 2020-11-18 | 15:00 - 17:00
• Zoom Online Meeting

During the COVID-19, There are many suppliers in China and they are suffering the fact that many manufacturing companies are doing the relocation and shift their supply chains from China abroad. As a result, many companies are facing issues in the supply chain. We hope to understand the future of the manufactures in South China, as well as what the supply chain will be.

• 2020-09-25 | 13:30 - 15:30
• CNIM Transport Equipment (Foshan) Co., Ltd.

Manufacturing companies didn't need to worry about marketing a decade ago. They produced the best possible products and hired good salespeople to sell them. And that was about it.
If manufacturers even thought about marketing, it was as sales support: organizing trade show giveaways, creating sell sheets, buying ad space in trade magazines and making sure the website looked halfway decent.
Essentially, marketing was not a focus, and it was often treated as an afterthought.
But the world of buying and selling has changed. 94% of B2B buyers are now doing their own research online before they even want to engage with a manufacturing company's salespeople.
So, ready or not, marketing has become a new necessity manufacturers.

• 2020-09-18 | 09:30 - 12:00
• Generali China Life Insurance Company Limited Guangdong Branch 中意人寿保险有限公司广东省分公司

From the previous LEAN meetings, top management involvement has been discussed and all managers need and must be involved in LEAN activities and working on it on a daily basis. Awards were communicated quite in detail and pointed out different ways in different companies.

The third LEAN discussion will be in Andritz in Foshan. Andritz starts to use LEAN tools (partial of global initiatives) a few years ago with results to have low/middle-end fruits and they are working to shape the factory digitalization (real-time “data” talk to data) to have further improvement. The factory serves more than 10 different industries with all traditional manufacturing processes (Machining, Welding, Assembling, Casting, Forging and Painting) with Project / Product / Service Operation Modules.

• 2020-09-01 | 09:30 - 15:00
• ANDRITZ China Headquarter building

This meeting of the South China Healthcare Sub-Forum is to discuss the recent "Buy China" policies enacted with the support of the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission and to determine what action to take moving forward.

• 2020-08-28 | 11:00 - 12:00
• European Chamber - Chinese Overseas Scholars Venture Building

The Shenzhen municipal government is organizing a policy explanation and Q&A meeting for foreign companies to better understand the local policies on stabilizing Shenzhen’s foreign business and investment in 2020. Representatives from Shenzhen Commerce Bureau and Shenzhen Taxation Bureau will attend to interpret relevant regulations.

• 2020-08-27 | 14:00 - 16:30
• 深圳市深南大道6005号金茂深圳JW万豪酒店三楼金茂宴会厅

The European Chamber Logistics Working Group is pleased to invite you to a working group meeting with Ms Cinzia Pasquale, founder of 4SUCCESS2EU, and Mr Alexio Picco, managing director of Circle Group, to discuss on the EU's response to COVID-19 in sustainable, green and inclusive connectivity.

• 2020-08-06 | 16:00 - 17:30
• online Zoom Meeting Platform

In order to answer questions about Guangzhou's entry policy, we have invited officials from the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau, Education Bureau, and the Epidemic Control Group for an exclusive Q&A session and to answer our members' questions sent in advance. This event page is for the offline event registration only.
为了跟进关于广州入境政策的进展，中国欧盟商会邀请广州市公安局、教育部门、以及疫情防控指挥部，为会员企业解答关于广州入境政策的疑问。通过此页面报名，仅参加线下活动。

• 2020-07-28 | 15:00 - 17:00
• The Conrad Hotel

How Kaizen philosophy has spread throughout the world and has been applied to environments inside and outside the business as well as productivity? How to solve one ‘’basic issue’’ in your company?

Kaizen, first practiced in Japanese businesses, is a concept referring to business activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers. Currently, aiming to eliminate waste (lean manufacturing), we can see Kaizen has been put into use mainly in the supply chain, such as purchasing and logistics. Besides, it also applies to healthcare, psychotherapy, life coaching, government, and banking.

• 2020-07-24 - 2020-07-24 | 09:30 - 12:30
• Onsite