Press Releases

2025-03-27 > All chapters

Stance on European Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič’s March 2025 China Visit

European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Maroš Šefčovič, is scheduled to travel to Beijing, China in late March 2025 to meet with Chinese stakeholders. Commissioner Šefčovič will also meet with representatives from the European Chamber.

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2025-03-05 > All chapters

Statement on the 2025 Government Work Report

At the 2025 meeting of the National People’s Congress, similar to last year, China set a target for economic growth in 2025 at around 5 per cent and pledged to further deepen comprehensive reform and expand high-standard opening up.

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2025-02-20 > All chapters

Statement on the State Council’s 2025 Action Plan for Stabilising Foreign Investment

The plan is seen as a continuation of the Chinese Government's pledges from recent years regarding improving the business environment for foreign investment.

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2025-01-09 > All chapters

European Chamber Warns of High Costs of Siloing Operations in China

The European Chamber today published its report Siloing and Diversification: One World, Two Systems, which highlights the high cost to businesses and the economy as a result of companies being compelled to silo their operations in China.

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2019-12-12 > Shanghai

Shanghai’s 2020 International Financial Centre Goal Hindered by Capital Controls, RMB Inconvertibility, Opaque Regulation and Low Internationalisation

The European Chamber released a survey today revealing that although Shanghai’s financial ecosystem has made positive advances in recent years, the city will not reach its goal of becoming an international financial centre by 2020.

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2019-12-09 > All chapters

Futility of applying bilateral tariffs in a global economy increasingly apparent, as large firms side-step intended impact and small firms endure steady beating

From 12th– 20th September 2019, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China surveyed its member companies to better determine how they are being affected by the ongoing US-China trade war.

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2019-12-07 > South China

Bring Guangdong from ‘Locally Good’ to ‘Globally Great’ European Chamber facilitates Guangdong-European Business Partnership in 3rd CEIICC

7th December 2019, Dongguan, China – Today the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (European Chamber) together with the People’s Government of Guangdong Province, hosted the 2019 China (Guangdong) – Europe Investment Cooperation Conference

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2019-11-22 > Nanjing

European Chamber Report Encourages Nanjing to Play to its Strengths

The European Chamber today released the Nanjing Position Paper 2019/2020, its second local paper presenting the concerns, assessments and recommendations of European Chamber members doing business in the region.

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2019-11-06 > All chapters

European Chamber Stance on the EU-China Agreement on the Cooperation on, and Protection of, Geographical Indications

The long-awaited conclusion of the EU-China bilateral GI Agreement is a welcome development for European business, underlining how essential results are for meaningful EU-China cooperation.

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