Throughout the past months, various actors in the EU have been sounding the alarm bells regarding overcapacities generated by Chinese production in a number of key sectors. Will the overcapacity set China, the EU, and the US on a dangerous course of trade confrontation in 2024? What are the policy options the three actors have at hand to address this issue? And how should companies incorporate all of these considerations in their business strategy?

Join us on 29th April for the fresh insights from Rhodium Group on China’s overcapacity outlook, as well as for a discussion with European industry representatives on their on-the-ground experience dealing with overcapacities.

• 2024-04-29 | 15:00 - 16:30
• Teams/ European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

On 22nd March, 2024, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) officially issued the ‘Provisions on Promoting and Regulating Cross-border Flow of Data’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘New Rules’), revamping the cross-border data transfer rules in place since 2022. The New Rules constituted a much-awaited announcement that is expected to lessen the administrative burdens and cross-border data transfer bottlenecks facing many companies, and provide a more internationalized environment for MNCs as well as Chinese local companies with overseas needs.

• 2024-03-29 | 16:30 - 18:00
• Teams/ European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

2024 is an important year for China on further economic recovery and also provides challenges and opportunities for companies to explore business in China. The ‘Two Sessions (Lianghui)’ and the China Development Forum (CDF) will guide China’s economic growth and provide new engines for business. At the same time, a stable and healthy bilateral EU-China relationship is strategically significant for the economy and companies.

Welcome to join us to outlook the China economic growth, explore the opportunities under the uncertain EU-China relations, discuss how will the 'Two Sessions' convey confidence in 2024 economy, and talk with economists and experts on new business opportunities in China.

• 2024-03-27 | 15:00 - 16:30
• Teams / European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

The European Chamber cordially invites you to attend the launch of its latest publication, produced in partnership with China Macro Group (CMG), on 20th March 2024.

European Chamber president Jens Eskelund and CMG co-founder and managing director Markus Herrmann Chen will present the key findings of the report. Following this, president Eskelund and former Chamber presidents Joerg Wuttke, Mats Harborn and Davide Cucino will discuss the impact that state-led risk management and economic-security-focussed policies are having on European companies in China.

• 2024-03-20 | 09:00 - 11:30
• Beijing Ballroom, 3F, Four Seasons Hotel

In a world facing multiple crises that are putting immense pressure on communities, achieving gender equality is more vital than ever. Numerous studies have consistently demonstrated that gender diversity in leadership leads to enhanced financial performance for companies and plays a crucial role in achieving sustainable development, peace, and democracy in society. Building upon this knowledge, it is imperative for us to actively work towards increasing the representation of women in leadership positions, as it positively impacts the business landscape.

• 2024-03-07 | 10:00 - 12:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office 中国欧盟商会上海办公室 & Teams

European Chamber Women's Day Workshop
Gender Diversity: Empowering Female Leadership In Business

• 2024-03-07 | 13:30 - 15:30
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

Faced with an increasingly unstable geopolitical and economic environment, industrial policy has been inserted as a core component in the agendas of the world’s largest three economies – the United States (US), China, and the European Union (EU). These strategies and regulations on renewable and low-carbon energy technologies, raw materials and technologies of the future are likely to result in profound implications on the global supply and value chains while reshaping industries especially high-tech sector such as semiconductors.

What is the global geopolitical and trade outlook look like amid this global industrial strategy race? What are the implications of the varying policy measures on the strategies of multinational companies? As the world is seemingly moving away from globalisation, how will the elevation of industrial strategies impact the liberalisation of global trade?

• 2023-11-03 | 15:00 - 16:45
• Zoom/ European Chamber Office Beijing

*Participants from the automotive-related industry and automotive supply chain will enjoy free tickets.
Data sharing is a topic that is gaining traction worldwide.

The EU, for example, is enacting horizontal and sectoral legislation to further boost data sharing. The European strategy for data of February 2020 also foresaw the creation of common European data spaces in strategic sectors such as manufacturing, mobility and green deal. One of the most prominent data spaces is Catena-X, the first collaborative, open ecosystem for the automotive industry of the future, linking global players into end-to-end value chains, with the shared goal of a standardized global data exchange.

In China, at the end of 2022, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council jointly issued the Opinions on Building Basic Systems for Data to Better Give Full Play to the Role of Data Resources (Twenty Data Measures), aiming at fully leveraging China’s abundant data resources and rich application scenarios, and shedding light on Chinese-style data governance. Since then, relevant government agencies have stepped up efforts in exploring concrete policy measures.

• 2023-10-11 | 14:00 - 15:40
• Zoom/ European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

The technology behind generative artificial intelligence (AI)—which can produce content such as text, imagery and audio—is developing at astonishing speeds. Following the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, this and other generative AI applications such as Stable Diffusion and GitHub Copilot, have captured public attention worldwide, thanks to their wide utility.

While the full economic potential of this technology is yet to be tapped into, there are a host of considerations and concerns for businesses and governments to take into account in the era of generative AI, not to mention the potential for legal and regulatory challenges.

• 2023-09-19 | 15:00 - 16:50
• Zoom/ European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

2023 has seen China’s continued regulatory efforts that could impact foreign companies’ investment decisions in the country – for example, the newly introduced Anti-espionage Law and the tighter supervision over data. At the same time, the government has also rolled out a series of measures to optimise the business environment for foreign investors in a bid to demonstrate its support of FDI. The complex context in China has led to lots of discussions on whether China is still an attractive investment destination, especially amid the global supply chain diversification trend post-COVID. How should we identify the real status of FDI in the Chinese market today and tomorrow?

• 2023-09-13 | 15:00 - 16:30
• Zoom/ European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405