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

How can companies and individuals help improve the circularity of plastics? What technologies can be used to use plastics in a more efficient way? What is the future for plastic use?

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is delighted to invite you to a webinar about the Circularity of Plastics. Please join us on 16th October 2020 for an engaging session with speakers from a diverse range of backgrounds.

• 2020-10-16 | 14:30 - 16:45
• Online - Zoom Online Meeting Platform and in-person from the European Chamber Shanghai Office

Innovation and R&D are inexhaustible driving force and core competitiveness for long-term and sustainable development of an enterprise. Chinese government attaches great importance to the role of R&D investment by enterprises in national economy, and introduces a series of R&D incentive programs. As a starting point, considerations need to be given to the correlation of the IP arrangement/TP positioning of the China entity in the value chain and the R&D incentive that a company may claim.

• 2020-08-05 | 08:45 - 10:30
• Meeting room 5, 7F, InterContinental Hotel Nanjing

Dr. HE Yang, Director General of Department of International Cooperation of the National Energy Administration of China to share the State’s policies and plans for EU-China Energy Technology and Innovation Cooperation and the Belt and Road Initiative Energy Partnership.

• 2020-07-02 | 15:00 - 17:00
• Zoom Online Meeting

One of the mottoes of the new Commission under the auspices of President Ursula Von der Leyen has been to “strive for more at home in order to lead in the world”. Throughout the new leadership’s 100 first days, a number of road-maps that will likely pave the way of Europe’s strategic development and global positioning in the next five years have been developed. Looking at EU-China cooperation and competition, perhaps two of the most relevant road-maps devised by the new Commission are its Artificial Intelligence (AI) White Paper – released on 19th February – and its industrial strategy – rolled out on 10th March.

• 2020-03-16 | 16:00 - 17:30
• online

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is delighted to invite you to a gathering of experts from various industries to discuss about business practice relating to big data and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Welcome to the era of big data - an era full of opportunities as well as challenges. Big data and IoT work hand in hand, and IoT is one of the hottest applications in big data. How can companies benefit most in the big data era? How to transform the big data &IoT research into industrial practice? How to cope with the underlying challenges in the context of China? Let us find the solutions in this event.

• 2018-12-12 | 14:00 - 17:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

Entrepreneurship and venture capital are at a record-high in China amid slowing overall economic growth. Innovation is viewed as the new growth engine needed to transform the economy. What are the opportunities and challenges for finding and funding world-class “zero to one” type innovation in China?

• 2015-12-09 | 14:30 - 18:00
• The European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is delighted to invite you to the R&D Seminar: High-tech China 2016: The Shift to Innovation-led Growth

• 2015-11-12 | 15:30 - 18:00
• The European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is delighted to invite you to the 2015 China Innovation roundtable.

As this is set up to be a highly interactive event you are strongly encouraged to review the speakers' innovation reports (available for download on the event page) in advance and come prepared with questions and comments.

• 2015-08-27 | 09:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber Shanghai