This event is open to corporate member companies only and is off the record

A year and a half ago, President Xi Jinping took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos and asserted that China would step up to take a leading role in the global economic system and further open up to international business.

While the pace of reform has accelerated, compared to the demands of the rapidly developing Chinese economy, China’s reforms are, in absolute terms, still insufficient and incomplete.

In the report 18 Months Since Davos: How China’s Vision Became a Reform Imperative, the European Chamber seeks to answer a number of questions raised about the post Davos agenda and how it impacts European business operating in China.

How can China’s drive for a strong R&D environment be reconciled with existing issues over intellectual property and unfair technology transfers? Is the lifting of equity caps meaningful in a business environment that is laden with administrative burdens? And how valuable is openness in sectors already dominated by SOEs?

Agenda

14:00 – 14:30 Registration

14:30 – 14:35 Welcome remarks

14:35 – 15:00 18 Months Since Davos: How China’s Vision Became a Reform Imperative, Mats Harborn, President, European Union Chamber of Commerce in China

15:00 – 16:00 Off the record discussion

How should the European business community respond to reform that to date falls short of President Xi’s vision?

-          Mats Harborn, President, European Chamber

-          Joerg Wuttke, former President, European Chamber

-          Patrick Horgan, former Vice President, European Chamber

-          Rachel Morarjee, States' Representative, European Chamber (moderator)

All attendees will receive a free hardcopy of the report, 18 Months Since Davos: How China’s Vision Became a Reform Imperative

This event is open to corporate members of the Chamber only. Members of the diplomatic community may attend the morning press conference. Contract Graeme Wallace gwallace@europeanchamber.com.cn for further information.

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Speakers

Mr. Mats Harborn

President, Scania China

Mr. Mats Harborn

President, Scania China

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Mr Mats Harborn is President of Scania China.
From May 2017 to May 2019 Mats Harborn was the President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. He had served on the Chamber's Executive Committee since 2013, as Vice President and as States' Representative.
Mr. Harborn has been actively involved in Sino-European trade and business relations. In 2005, he was appointed as the Chairman of Swedish Chamber of Commerce in China, a position he held for 8 years. He has been the Chairman China Commercial Vehicles Board of ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers' Association) since 2010.
Mr. Harborn has a proven record of successful introductions of products and companies into China over years. He is now the Executive Director of Scania China Strategic Office, responsible for setting strategies and paving the way for high end CV sales. He joined the company as the Managing Director of Scania China Representative office as well as Scania Sales (China) Co., Ltd in 2004 and held that position until 2010. From 1997 to 2000, he had been working for Swedish Embassy in Beijing as Commerical Councelor, a key position in Sino-Swedish commercial relations. In June 2000, he became the Marketing and Information Director of Ecolean AB, helping establish Ecolean as a credible business partner in juice and dairy industry and define it as a sustainable packaging solutions provider.
Mr. Harborn received a bachelor degree from Lund University on Oriental Studies and Business Admin (1984), and a training course from The Institute of Leadership (IFL) (2008).
As a multilingual user, Mr. Harborn has a wide ranging knowledge of Chinese culture and society beyond his business and rich expertise in cross-cultural management.

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