The European Chamber would like to invite you to the next Investment Working Group meeting held on Monday 26th March 2018, from 16:00-18:00am at the European Chamber’s Beijing and Shanghai offices.

• 2018-03-26 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber office Beijing

Chair/Vice Chair Elections, Presentation on Current Development of Foreign-funded Insurance Institutions in China and discussion on Insurance Position Paper 2018/19

• 2018-03-22 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber

In 2016, Chinese investments into the EU leaped 77% y-o-y to more than 35 billion EUR. As China continues to grow, develop, and integrate into the global economy, its overseas investments expand in quantity and quality, reflecting growing sophistication of the Chinese economy and broader Chinese commercial and policy goals. Brand new realities for the EU-China trade relations are therefore being shaped up.　

How is this new scenario is going to impact our economies? What are the motives and tools used for Chinese investments in Europe? These and other questions will be discussed at the next WG meeting on 22 March, h 9:30 with Mr Bo Cheng, Partner at Zhong Lun. Bo will provide a seminar about “Chinese outbound direct investment (ODI) from a regulatory point of view”.

• 2018-03-22 | 09:30 - 11:30
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C412

AFB Working Group Meeting: Discussion on AFB Position Paper Draft 2018/2019

• 2018-03-20 | 09:30 - 12:00
• European Chamber Beijing Office

Working Group meeting: Chair/Vice Chair Elections, Presentation on Global Fintech Business Models and discussion on Consumer Finance & NBFI Position Paper 2018/19

• 2018-03-19 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber

To update the members on the EU-China Partnership on Urbanisation and upcoming opportunities for European business in China, the European Chamber is pleased to invite Mr. Ignacio Asenjo, Second Secretary, Delegation of the European Union to China, to share the recent development on the partnership and his perspectives on the sector of sustainable urban development, followed by a roundtable discussion with members.

• 2018-03-19 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C411A

The ICT Working Group is pleased to invite you to the next working group meeting and elections, taking place on Friday 16 March, 2018, from 16h to 18h, at the European Chamber Beijing and Shanghai Offices.

• 2018-03-16 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Beijing Office, 4th floor, Room C411A

Dear Working Group member,

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next Finance and Taxation (F&T) Working Group meeting and Chair Election. It will be held on Friday, 16 March, 9:30 – 11:30 at the European Chamber offices in Beijing, Shanghai and South China via video conference.

In this meeting,Lin Fang, Corporate Tax Partner of PwC China, will give a presentation on "China Foreign Direct-investment Policy Updates for European Companies". He will share the latest insights on the following hot issues:
1. Development situation of foreign invested companies in China
2. Important measures to attract more foreign investment and implementation situation in practice - including Circular 88: withholding tax deferral treatment for foreign direct re-investment
3. Practice and development of Negative List System for foreign investment.

• 2018-03-16 | 09:30 - 11:30
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C412

The Automotive Working Group cordially invites you to the next working group meeting on Wednesday March 14th, from 2:30-4:30pm at the conference room of Beijing Chapter.

• 2018-03-14 | 14:30 - 16:30
• European Chamber Conference Room

Dear Working Group Members,

On 2 June 2017, in the context of the EU-China Summit in Brussels, Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete and Mr Nur Bekri, Administrator of the National Energy Administration signed the 2017-2018 Work Plan to implement the EU-China Roadmap on Energy Cooperation, having the objective of sharing best practices with regard to energy regulation, demand and supply analysis, energy crisis, grid design and the integration of renewable energy into the electricity grid. In this context, 2018 will also see the start of the EU–China energy cooperation platform (ECECP), an EU funded project aimed at strengthening the EU–China business cooperation in the energy sector.

How do these mechanisms of cooperation set up in the context of the EU-China Energy Dialogue function? What role can companies play? Will the European companies active in the energy sector in China benefit from these mechanisms? These and other issues will be discussed at the next WG meeting on 14 March 2018, h 9:30 – 11:30, with Mr Ignacio Asenjo, Second Secretary at the Delegation of the EU in China.

• 2018-03-14 | 09:30 - 11:30
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C412