[Hybrid]European Business in China – Business Confidence Survey Launch 2025 Go back »
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Time2025-05-28 | 14:00 - 16:00
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Venue:Teams/ European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405
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Address:Beijing Yansha Centre, 50 Liangmaqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
北京市朝阳区亮马桥路50号燕莎中心写字楼C405室 -
Fee:Members: Free |
Non Members: 300
*This is a joint media/member launch event webinar. Media participation is by invitation only, the presentation is on the record, and European Chamber spokespersons are to be quoted in their European Chamber capacity only.
*This event will be conducted in English with no translation services.
*Embassies and consulates of European member states may have one complimentary ticket on the first-come, first-served basis.
The European Chamber, in partnership with Roland Berger, cordially invites you to attend the launch of its Business Confidence Survey (BCS) 2025 on 28th May, from 14:00–16:00 (Beijing time).
After China ended its zero-COVID policy in late 2022, Chinese officials began issuing a series of policy plans geared towards improving the country’s business environment and economic fundamentals. However, two years on, this has not yet resulted in an uptick in business confidence.
Faced with a mixture challenges—including persistent regulatory and market access barriers, heightened geopolitical tensions, price deflation, low domestic consumption and narrowing margins—Chamber members’ optimism over the near- and medium-term outlook now sits at a record low level. Many firms are continuing to re-evaluate their engagement with the Chinese market, with large numbers cutting costs, toning down expansion plans, shifting investments to other regions and taking steps to silo their China and rest of the world supply chains.
While these trends can be reversed, concrete policy action is needed to make this happen. The key message of this year’s BCS: Act now before difficulty doing business in China and subdued expectations become the new normal.
European Chamber president Jens Eskelund will present the key findings of this year’s survey, following which representatives from the Chamber’s six chapters will each provide an overview of business confidence among European companies in their respective localities.
Agenda:
13:30-14:00 Registration
14:00-14:05 Opening remarks
- Adam Dunnett, Secretary General, European Chamber
14:05-14:15 Overview of survey methodology
- Denis Depoux, Global Managing Director, Roland Berger
14:15-14:45 Presentation of European Business in China: Business Confidence Survey
- Jens Eskelund, President, European Chamber
14:45-15:15 Presentation of local chapters’ survey results
15:15-16:00 Q&A
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Speakers
Mr. Jens Eskelund
Jens Eskelund was born in 1970 in Aarhus, Denmark. He holds an MA in philosophy and has studied at University of Aarhus and University of Texas at Austin. He has also pursued studies in Chinese at Renmin University in Beijing. Coming to Beijing as a student in 1998, Jens Eskelund began his career in China as Commercial Officer at the Danish Embassy to China before taking on a position in marketing for Maersk Line in Beijing in 2000. He has since held positions as General Manager for Public Affairs for Maersk Line in China and later Director of Public Affairs for North Asia before assuming his present role as Chief Representative for Maersk in the Greater China Area and North-East Asia. Primary focus areas comprise engaging government entities, institutions and trade associations on matters of policy, regulatory environment and business development on behalf of the companies within the Maersk Group.
Jens Eskelund is a former Chairman of the Danish Chamber of Commerce in China as well as the Vice President and Chair of Maritime Working Group of the European Chamber. Jens was elected as the President of European Chamber in May 2023.
Jens Eskelund is married and has two sons.
Mr. Denis Depoux
Denis Depoux began his career in China in 1993 with French energy giant EDF before entering the management consulting industry. In 2001, Depoux joined Roland Berger, focusing on the energy and environmental sectors, and sharing his strong consulting expertise and rich industry experience in the US, Europe and Asia.
Depoux has been actively supporting the firm's Greater China operations since 2007. Since moving to Shanghai in 2015, he has contributed a lot to the transformation towards the new Roland Berger in this region. For Roland Berger Greater China, he has been committedly overseeing a wide variety of Competence Centers. In 2020, Denis was elected Managing Director and has been devoted to the management of Roland Berger's global affairs.
In the energy and utilities sector, Depoux has supported the transformation of major European players throughout the energy market's transition facing a more liberalized and competitive market. He has made extensive contributions in the areas of new products and services, the development of wholesale-market trading, risk management, the development of energy services, etc. He has also advised on several major mergers of European energy players and supported the expansion of electricity and natural-gas players into Europe, the Americas and Asia. More recently, Depoux has supported European and Asian energy players in addressing challenges raised by the trends toward low-carbon energy, energy efficiency, decentralized energy generation and the Internet of energy.
Beyond the energy sector, Depoux has extensive experience in performance and operations improvement, operational and G&A cost reduction, purchasing process transformation, screening, commercial and strategic due diligence for acquisition targets, post-merger integration and organization and governance.
Depoux is a key speaker at top-level forums in Asia, including the Boao Forum for Asia, World Knowledge Forum and China Development Forum. As one of the leading foreign experts working in China, he was invited to a New Year meeting with Chinese Premier to discuss the nation's development. Besides, Depoux often shares his insights on trendy topics both inside and outside China by taking interviews and writing articles for mainstream media channels, including People's Daily, CCTV and Caijing.
Mr. Adam Dunnett
Adam’s career has focused on trade & investment advocacy, promotion and association management. As the European Chamber’s secretary general, he is responsible for the overall implementation of its objectives, visibility, membership and advocacy activities across its 7 chapters and 9 offices in China (Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Shenyang and Tianjin).