Businesses undergoing transformation are increasingly prioritizing sustainable development. The rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging digital technologies are becoming essential for businesses in terms of the digital transformation of their production and manufacturing processes. Through digitalization, companies can enhance production efficiency, improve product quality, optimize resource utilization, reduce waste, and ultimately help achieve their sustainability goals.

The European Chamber is thrilled to organize an exclusive tour to Microsoft, where participants will not only gain a thorough understanding of the latest advancements in generative AI through face-to-face interaction with technologies, but also obtain practical advice on how to leverage AI to drive innovation and sustainability in business.

• 2024-05-16 | 14:00 - 16:30
• Microsoft Center One

In the ever-evolving landscape of sustainability, the forthcoming workshop holds immense promise for key stakeholders in Shenyang, with a special focus on European businesses, automotive industry players, and other manufacturers. This gathering is strategically designed to equip the audience with actionable insights, fostering a collaborative environment where knowledge-sharing and real-world case studies around EU and China, North and South of China as well as automotive industry become the catalyst for positive change. The workshop's emphasis on practical know-how, especially from an end-user perspective, ensures that attendees, including European businesses in Shenyang, automotive industrialists, and manufacturers, gain invaluable tools to not only enhance their operations but also contribute meaningfully to the city's sustainable development.

• 2023-12-05 | 14:00 - 19:00
• Conrad Hotel 3rd Floor Ball Room/沈阳康莱德酒店三层大宴会厅

Decarbonization of the electric power system is the key to realize the “double carbon” target. EU SMEs have to increase the usage of renewable energy while decreasing coal power when facing the ever-growing demand in electricity. However, to meet the target is not simply stop using coal power, but to realize multi-energy integration and complementation by optimizing the combination of coal and new energy, and furtherly establish low-carbon electric power system with renewable energy as the main body.

• 2023-11-24 | 15:30 - 17:30
• Blue-whale SOHO 蓝鲸SOHO联合办公

Under the guidance of the National Energy Administration (NEA) and Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, the European Chamber Energy Working Group has the pleasure to co-host the 2023 China-Europe Offshore Renewables Development & Cooperation Forum with China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute and Yancheng Municipal People’s Government. The Forum will take place in Yancheng, Jiangsu from November 20th to 22nd.

• 2023-11-20 - 2023-11-22 | 00:00 - 00:00
• Yancheng, Jiangsu

How can French enterprises get a deeper understanding of the particularities and complexities of the Chinese market, so as to better adapt to and integrate in an era of digital transformation？How can Chinese companies fully understand and adapt to the French market, to better "go global" in an era of globalization? This forum will invite representatives from China and France’s governments, business communities, and academic circles to engage in in-depth discussions on these questions and more. In the process, they will promote bilateral business exchanges along with the stable and far-reaching development of Sino-French relations, jointly helping to write a new chapter of cooperation for the future.

• 2023-11-16 | 16:00 - 19:00
• China Europea International Business School (CEIBS)

Forum Background

The comprehensive strategic partnership between the European Union (EU) and China turns 20 this year. Over the past two decades the EU and China, two of the world’s leading economies, have engaged in mutually beneficial cooperation in a win-win manner and achieved significant success in fields such as politics, economy, culture, and science. As of the end of 2022, EU-China bilateral trade volume reached $847.3 billion, with each side the second-largest trading partner of the other. The stock of two-way investment between China and the EU has exceeded $230 billion, benefiting people on both sides and contributing greatly to world peace and economic prosperity.

Looking ahead, the two sides hold great potential for cooperation and share common interests in promoting economic growth and financial stability, coping with the energy crisis, curbing inflation, and pursuing green and digital transitions. As such, they have decided to set up a financial working group under the China-EU High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue (HED) mechanism to strengthen cooperation in financial areas such as financial liberalisation, infrastructure, and regulation, as well as sustainable finance and fintech. However, some tension does exist within the relationship – EU authorities have recently opened an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric car imports, for example.

• 2023-11-14 | 16:30 - 19:10
• CEIBS Shanghai Campus

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

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (European Chamber), along with the Department of Science and Technology of Shanxi Province, the Multinational Corporation Carbon Neutrality Forum 50 (MNC50) and the Shanxi Research Institute of Huairou Laboratory, will jointly organise the upcoming Panel Forum: Energy Transition and Low-Carbon Innovation in Taiyuan, Shanxi on 7th September. This event will be an integral part of the Coal Clean and Efficient Utilization Parallel Forum and the Taiyuan Energy Low Carbon Development Forum 2023.

• 2023-09-07 | 08:30 - 12:00
• Room Wutong, Wutong Building Taiyuan, Shanxi

General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed in the report of the 20th Party Congress that "accelerating the planning and construction of a new type of energy system". The Action Programme for Peak Carbon by 2030 proposes to build a new type of power system with a gradually increasing proportion of new energy sources and to promote the optimal allocation of clean power resources on a large scale. Nowadays, the new power system is an important component of the new energy system and a key vehicle for achieving the "dual carbon" goal. Therefore, the European Chamber Shenyang Chapter and SIPC jointly organised a seminar to invite representatives of members to discuss the situation of the electricity market in Liaoning Province, the development of market transactions in 2023, that of green power business such as green certificates and virtual power plants, as well as the problems that users faced.


习近平总书记在党的二十大报告中强调，“加快规划建设新型能源体系”。《2030年前碳达峰行动方案》提出，构建新能源占比逐渐提高的新型电力系统，推动清洁电力资源大范围优化配置。现如今新型电力系统是新型能源体系的重要组成和实现“双碳”目标的关键载体。因此由国家电投与欧盟商会共同组织，邀请欧盟商会会员企业代表就辽宁省电力市场形势、2023年市场交易开展情况、绿电绿证、虚拟电厂等新兴电力业务发展趋势，以及用户企业在电力能源方面存在的问题进行座谈交流。

• 2023-08-18 | 09:20 - 11:30
• State Power Investment Group Northeast Power Development 国家电投东北公司本部

With new advances in battery, electric vehicles and solar, how will China shift away from coal as the dominant power source, and what advancements are needed in energy storage for a secure energy future? What steps are industry players taking to optimise their energy efficiency ahead of the anticipated summer energy shortages in 2023? Join the European Chamber and various industry experts to take a closer look at the renewable energy outlook for the rest of the year.

• 2023-08-17 | 15:00 - 17:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office