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2012-09-06 > All chapters

European Chamber urges China's new leaders to open up markets

A once-in-a-decade leadership change in Beijing offers a chance to make much needed market access reforms, a European business lobby said on Thursday, warning that China's failure to do so could put at risk sustained growth of its state-led economy.

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2012-09-05 > All chapters

EU-China Business Summit

In parallel to the EU-China Political Summit, the EU-China Business Summit will take place on 20th September 2012 in Brussels. It is the highest-level platform for exchanges between EU and Chinese business and political leaders.

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2012-09-04 > All chapters

EU Business in China

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China will present its annual Position Paper at a special lunch seminar, to be held in Brussels on 18th September, 2012.

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2012-08-01 > All chapters

Investment needs a level playing field

At a time when foreign direct investment in China continues to decline, the need for it and its importance are being called into question. However, as the global economic crisis is far from over, this is a time when, if anything, FDI should continue and increase, not the other way around.

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2012-07-27 > Beijing

Energy Working Group News

Bi-weekly Newsletter on Energy policy and trends in China

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2012-06-27 > All chapters

Foreign Businesses In China Are Increasingly Concerned About The Future

For a country that has successfully attracted major investments over the years from multinationals as diverse as Starbucks, Intel, Disney and GM, the message from the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China in May was relatively downbeat. Regulatory restrictions hurt business at half of companies that participated in a recent chamber survey; some 22% of the respondents said they may move their projects elsewhere as a result. That comes on top of consecutive year-on-year declines in foreign investment in each of the five months to April, and long-standing concerns about piracy and unfair competition.

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2012-06-25 > All chapters

Change of direction

It was billed as one of the biggest foreign investment deals in China in recent times. But little did those who had gathered in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province, on a bright and sunny day in April know the real impact of the $7-billion (5.5 billion euros) Samsung Electronics deal vis-a-vis FDI in China (see page 16-17).
Close on the heels of the South Korean investment came the news that German auto major Volkswagen AG was planning to invest $210 million in an automobile unit in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

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2012-06-19 > All chapters

Thomas Donohue and Dean Garfield: Protectionism Is Back

Thanks to innovation and the people across our economy who power it, the stuff of imagination today becomes reality tomorrow. The tablet computer appeared in "2001: A Space Odyssey" some 40 years before it was in our shoulder bags. Buck Rogers's stage-prop laser guns fought intergalactic villains in the 1930s, decades before scientists in the real world harnessed that power to restore people's eyesight.

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2012-06-14 > All chapters

中国商务部:欧企没有大规模撤出中国

中国商务部周三向道琼斯通讯社(Dow Jones Newswires)表示,欧洲企业没有大规模撤出中国。中国欧盟商会(European Union Chamber of Commerce in China)此前警告称中国可能出现投资外流。

中国欧盟商会上个月公布的欧洲企业调查显示,22%的受访企业表示可能会将投资转向中国以外的地区,理由包括中国在市场准入方面的监管壁垒以及对劳动力成本上升和中国经济增长放缓等更广泛经济问题的担忧。

中国商务部周三公布,今年前四个月,来自欧盟的外商直接投资较上年同期减少28%;但补充称,欧洲企业撤离并非大规模现象。

商务部称,复杂环境导致外商直接投资下降,如欧洲债务危机日益深化、国内土地和劳动力成本不断上升,以及其他新兴经济体为吸引外资展开竞争等。

商务部还强调了政府为了向在华国际企业提供更加公平的商业环境而实施的一些政策,其中包括加强知识产权保护以及为外国投资者建立申诉机制等。

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