As an indispensable pillar of corporate social responsibility to facilitate equal employment opportunities, various good practices among different industries have been done to promote the integration of people of disabilities, including their proactive contributions to the Employment Security Fund for Persons with Disability.

On 9th September 2015, the Ministry of Finance, the State Bureau for Taxation and the China Disabled Persons Federation jointly issued the Methods on Levying, Use and Management of Employment Security Fund for Persons with Disability No. 72 [2015] (“Methods”).

Seeing a significant change in the new calculation method for some companies, which is based on the average annual salary of the company employees instead of the previously required amount(city average annual salary) regulated by the local government, more companies are coming to the awareness that this would potentially add more challenges on their financial situation, and the need to include persons with disabilities into the business cases, especially during the period of ‘New Normal’ when the domestic economy is slowing down, despite their willingness to support equal employment.

• 2016-11-10 | 14:30 - 16:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204, 333 Middle Huaihai Road, Shui On Plaza, Shanghai

Dear Working Group members,

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China would like to invite you to join the next Construction working group meeting. It will be held on Wednesday, 9 November, 9:30 h – 11:00 h at the European Chamber Beijing office. Members in Shanghai will join this meeting via videoconference.

At this meeting, Mr. Joey Jiang, Director of the International Business Department at Zhisland, the top high-end O2O social network platform for entrepreneurs in China with over 6000+ Members including Liu Chuanzhi of Lenovo and Jack Ma of Alibaba, will provide a presentation about his company and the online platform they implemented. Mr. Jiang is get his EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). Mr. Jiang used to be the CEO of Cullum detuners Co., Ltd, China branch and the Vipe-President of Stellar Energy (Asia).

• 2016-11-09 | 09:30 - 11:00
• European Chamber Office in Shanghai

HCE Working Group Meeting

• 2016-11-04 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Office Shanghai, Unit 2204

The Asia Pacific Ireland Business Forum (APIBF) coincides with the Asian Gaelic Games, an annual competition for GAA teams across the Asia-Pacific & the Gulf Regions.

• 2016-11-04 | 09:00 - 21:00
• Hotel Equatorial Shanghai

Dear Working Group members,

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China would like to invite you to join the next joint Legal&Competition and Investment working group meeting. It will be held on Friday, 4 November 2016, 10:00 h – 12:00 h at the European Chamber Beijing office. Members in Shanghai will join this meeting via videoconference.

At this meeting, Ms. Mieke Vanderstraeten, Acting Head of the Trade Section at the Delegation of the European Union to China and Mongolia, will provide you with an update on the status of the amendment of the four foreign investment laws.

• 2016-11-04 | 10:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

Presentation on Chengdu Investment Environment and Projects Match-making for International Collaboration Parks

• 2016-11-02 | 15:30 - 18:00
• Chengdu Tianfu New City Conference Center

The European Chamber’s Legal and Competition WG would like to invite you to the next Legal and Competition Working Group Meeting. It will be held on Friday, 28 October, 9:00 h – 11:00 h at the European Chamber Beijing office. Members in Shanghai will join this meeting via videoconference.

• 2016-10-28 | 09:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber office Shanghai

The European Chamber is delighted to welcome you to the upcoming Logistics Working Group meeting on Thursday, October 27th, 2016, 10:30-12:00 to explore road and maritime transport market in China under the New Normal.

• 2016-10-27 | 10:30 - 12:00
• The European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

Pollution has become a major concern for government, community of foreign companies and the entire population. We are all affected but we are also contributing. Progress has been made but there is great potential and need to speed this up by working together

• 2016-10-27 | 12:30 - 18:00
• ECO-WIT New Energy Technology

Please join us at the next R&D Working Group meeting which will take place on Monday 17th October at 09:30 in Shanghai. We will be welcoming Dr. Gernot Klotz who is coming all the way from Europe to provide us with his insights on Public-Private Cooperation as a Driver to Create New Innovation Opportunities. Europe is excellent in creating knowledge and intellectual property. It is however weak vis-a-vis it´s global competitors in turning this knowledge into value within the increasingly short time-span. A short presentation will be given on how Europe is responding to this paradox with innovative initiatives and strategic approaches on research and innovation.

• 2016-10-17 | 09:30 - 11:00
• European Chamer Office Shanghai