Dear Working Group Members,
Happy Chinese New Year!
As you may know, the automotive industry has two lobbying groups in Beijing: the ACEA office and the Chamber’s Automotive Working Group. ACEA focuses on communicating the industry technical issues with Chinese stakeholders, whereas the Automotive Working Group primarily facilitates exchanges and discussions which are of a more holistic and strategic nature and reflects these perspectives in the Key Recommendations of chamber’s annual position paper.
To ensure that our members have their voice represented in this year’s position paper, we will organize a 2015/2016 Position Paper Strategic Planning Workshop from 10:00-12:00, on March 5th at the Conference Room of EUCCC Beijing Office. We will discuss how we can increase the relevance of the Automotive Working Group to the automotive industry and collect inputs from members regarding their lobbying priorities in the year ahead. This workshop aims to outline the Key Recommendations (KRs) for this year’s Automotive Working Group position paper.
In respect of topic sensitivity, this workshop will be an invitation-only event which opens exclusively to automotive manufacturers, including both passenger vehicle industry and commercial vehicle industry. If you are interested in participating in this event, please contact Ink Zheng, the automotive working group coordinator, at izheng@europeanchamber.com.cn. You will need to receive a confirmation to attend this workshop.
On a separate note, please also save a place on your calendar during 10:00-11:30, Tuesday, March 24 for this year’s Working Group Chair Election. We are now calling for candidates who would be interested in taking on the Chairmanship or Vice Chairmanship of the Automotive Working Group in 2015/2016. Preferably the Chairs should be represented by the passenger car industry and the commercial vehicles industry respectively.
We wish you a year full of blessings and happiness in the year of ram.