The CFSTC is hoping to engage with members of the European Chamber’s Financial Services Working Groups to better understand foreign companies’ work on financial standardization and within the European Union as well as opinions of European companies in China on how China's national financial standards, industry standards, group standards and enterprise standards impact their daily practical work.

• 2020-12-22 | 09:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

The Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Dairy Industry, FSMP and PN Working Group are delighted to invite you to the last working group meeting in 2020 with a distinguished researcher and professional from the China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA).

• 2020-12-22 | 15:00 - 16:30
• European Chamber Office Beijing

We are pleased to hold an annual Working group meeting for summarising AA WG work and look ahead to next year.

• 2020-12-11 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, C405

Compared with traditional commercial bank customers, consumer finance customers and auto finance customers have a higher credit risk: they are more vulnerable, and more likely to default and obtain bad personal credit records. At the same time, these customers might be unfamiliar or do not proactively seek the security net that insurance provides. Meanwhile, insurance groups and holding companies strive to bring synergies to their markets by cross-selling between life insurance, health insurance and P&C companies, which requires them to obtain the qualification of cross-selling each other’s products in China. Many foreign-owned insurance companies do not have this cross-selling qualification, and those that do have obtained it in the past only for selected business lines. Meanwhile, draft regulation for commercial banks to cross-sell insurance has been released. In addition, consumer finance companies and auto finance companies seek to act as insurance agents in the same way that banks do. To successfully compete in the market, insurance companies, consumer finance companies and auto finance companies must be enabled to apply for this qualification.

• 2020-12-09 | 16:30 - 17:45
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

Dear Members,

The Auto, Aviation, Construction, Energy, and Rail Working Groups are pleased to invite you to the meeting “Mixed Ownership Reform of State-owned Enterprise: Practice and Prospect”, which is taking place on Tuesday, December 8th, 15:30-17:00pm (China time), on-site at the European Chamber’s Beijing offices.

Renqiang Shao, Chief Economist of CRRC (bio attached), will share his insights on mixed ownership reform of state-owned enterprise. CRRC is the world's largest supplier of rail transit equipment and gradually expands its portfolio to energy and automotive sectors. Hydrogen energy and new-energy vehicles are their new focus.

Agenda
o Introduction and Opening Remarks
o Presentation by Renqiang Shao, Chief Economist of CRRC
o Q&A and Open Discussion
o Closing Remarks

• 2020-12-08 | 15:30 - 17:00
• European Chamber Beijing Office C405

There has been an incredible rise in remote work due to COVID-19 which has conversely cause a rise in investments in cyber security by companies that are increasingly worried about cyber risks that the increased use of digital tools entails. However, despite these investments, companies need to adopt an end-to-end Supply Chain strategy.
Companies need to have a holistic view of the supply chain and promote a better integration within it.
Our two experts will be discussing the best strategies companies need to adopt to better tackle the increasing challenges posed by cyber risks in the supply chain.
If you would like to attend the event please register here on our website or email Pablo Galvez at pgalvez@europeanchamber.com.cn
If you wish to attend the event in person instead of online please send an email to Pablo Galvez at pgalvez@europeanchamber.com.cn

• 2020-11-26 | 10:00 - 11:30
• European Chamber Beijing Office C405

Does your enterprise transport dangerous good in China? Are you involved in hazardous management, EHS management, tracking of legal requirements or logistics for hazardous good?

We are delighted to invite you to attend our upcoming joint working group meeting on the safety of dangerous goods transport by road on 24th November, 14:00 – 17:30.

China’s transport ministry – along with five other ministries – published measures governing the safe transport of dangerous goods by road, which came into force on 1 January 2020. Currently, the transport of some disinfectants, perfumes and other small products containing chemicals, such as aerosols and chemical reagents, must be transported by specialist vehicles designed to move dangerous goods. The new measures, however, allow an exemption for small quantities of dangerous goods that meet certain requirements.

The European Chamber is honored to welcome Mr. Wu Jinzhong, Head of the expert group on road transport of dangerous goods, Ministry of transport, as well as industry professionals Ms. Jingzu Li, Project Director of Improve the Safety of Dangerous Goods Transportation in China of Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Mr. Chenfeng Shen, General Manager of GBK China Co. Ltd. to share with our member their experience and insights on dangerous goods transportation management.

• 2020-11-24 | 14:00 - 17:30
• ZOOM Online & Onsite

During August, the European Chamber, along with the US-China Business Council and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), participated in an anonymous survey based on an annual research project financed by the influential Chinese think thank CF40 (China Finance 40 Forum) and conducted by CASS (the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). This year the project was focused on shredding light on the difference in perceptions between China’s regulators and foreign financial institutions when it comes to the opening up, underlining that there is a big gap. On one hand, China’s officials think they make great efforts to push forward the financial opening. On the other hand, foreign financial institutions feel limited improvement and wish the opening could bring more impactful changes.

On this basis, CASS has now published the report at the second Shanghai Bund Summit and are delighted to share the results with members of the European Chamber’s Financial Services Working Groups. At this meeting, Mr. Qiyuan Xu, Senior fellow, Head of Economic Development Department and Deputy Director of RCIF (Research Center of International Finance) at CASS will present the report.

• 2020-11-24 | 16:00 - 17:30
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

After 12 years’ waiting, the 4th version of the Patent Law with an aim of further motivating innovations and improving the mechanism for cracking down patent infringements was finally passed on October 17, 2020. The amended Chinese patent law will take effect on June 1, 2021. Second Amendments introduced pharmaceutical patent-term extensions and established an early pharmaceutical patent-dispute resolution mechanism and patent linkage system that further protects the rights of patentees.

The European Chamber is delighted to invite Ms Mi LI, Principal at Rouse and the IP Consulting Director of Rouse China in Beijing to break down the changes and challenges, as well as outlooks ahead for our members in the pharmaceutical sector.

• 2020-11-20 | 14:00 - 15:40
• Zoom Online Meeting & Rouse Office

We are pleased to have climate policy and business experts in China to share their standpoints and perspectives on carbon-related policy making trends and enterprises coping strategies.

• 2020-11-19 | 09:30 - 11:00
• Zoom online