We are pleased to invite you to join the European Chamber Summer Business Connection & Mixer, which will take place on Tuesday, 23rd July, at China Merchants Bank Tower (No. 65, Haier Road, Laoshan District, Qingdao City).

Co-hosted by the European Chamber and Qingdao Municipal Investment Promotion Center (Invest in Qingdao), the event is an opportunity to connect and network with representatives from the Qingdao Government, the European Chamber as well as industry leaders and business partners from the wider foreign business community in Qingdao in a relaxed setting.

• 2024-07-23 | 15:00 - 16:30
• China Merchants Bank Tower

The European Chamber’s Carbon Market, Environment, and Standards & Conformity Assessment Working Groups, in collaboration with the National Centre for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC), are pleased to invite you to a joint working group meeting on Tuesday 16th July, where an expert from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) or NCSC will give a detailed interpretation of the recently launched policy and introduce the next steps. Afterwards, there will be exchange and free discussion sessions to raise industry concerns and suggestions.

• 2024-07-16 | 09:30 - 11:30
• National Centre for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC)

Sensitive personal information is an important concept under China's Personal Information Protection Law. With the release of the Provisions on the Promoting and Regulating of Cross-border Data Flows, the identification of sensitive personal information is even more relevant to the application of compliance paths for the export of personal information. On 11 June 2024, the National Technical Committee 260 on Cybersecurity of Standardisation Administration of China (the “TC260”) issued the technical document "Cybersecurity Standard Practice Guidelines -Guidelines for Identification of Sensitive Personal Information (Draft for Public Comments), which aims to provide clearer and more specific guidance on the protection of sensitive personal information.

In order to help members better understand the core content of the draft guideline and discuss the identification, handling and protection of sensitive personal information, as well as the compliance requirements involved in the whole life cycle, the European Chamber is honoured to invite Mr. Cai Peng, partner of Zhonglun Law Firm, to share his views on this topic.

• 2024-07-11 | 14:00 - 15:30
• European Chamber Beijing Office C405

With the rapid evolution of Intelligent Connected Vehicle (ICV) technology, and policy support vital to its success, autonomous driving is becoming an increasingly important advocacy priority for the European Chamber.

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to visit the Beijing High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Area to learn about how autonomous driving technology is being used on Beijing’s roads.

• 2024-07-05 | 13:30 - 17:00
• West Gate of Beijing Lufthansa Center

The European Chamber warmly invites you to join our exclusive breakfast roundtable on 2nd July (Tuesday) in Beijing featuring Prof. Keyu Jin(金刻羽), tenured professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, academic member of the China Finance 40 Group and non-executive board member of the luxury conglomerate Richemont and the global bank Credit Suisse.

A Beijing-born, US-educated professor at the London School of Economics, Keyu Jin works to connect East and West, with a particular interest in enhancing global understanding of what’s really going on within the Chinese political economy. Her research is on international economics--- such as why capital flows from poor to rich countries, how the global implications of U.S. monetary and fiscal policies have changed; as well as on how the rise of China impacts the global economy, from several perspectives ---trade, capital flows, global interest rates and saving, demographics, productivity and technology.

• 2024-07-02 | 08:00 - 10:00
• 29 Grill, 2F, Conrad Hotel

The EU SME Centre and the European Chamber are pleased to invite you to our next Working Group meeting on 25th June 10:00-11:00 online, where Chief Economist at Coface, Junyu Tan, will provide an overview of the 2024 Coface China Corporate Payment Survey.

• 2024-06-25 | 10:00 - 11:00
• Online

The European Chamber Carbon Market Working Group, together with the MNC Forum for Carbon Neutrality (MNC50), will jointly organise a meeting Understanding the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) offline in Beijing on Sunday 23rd June, 3-5pm.

• 2024-06-23 | 15:00 - 17:00
• 35th Floor, North Tower, CP Center, 20 Jinhe East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

The fifth episode of the Interpreting the EU's Toolbox series will focus on EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which was given a green light by both the European Parliament and the Council of the EU in April and May 2024 respectively. On Thursday 20th June at 15:30, Zsofia Kerecsen, a representative from DG JUST at the European Commission will provide an online overview of the CSDDD, which will be followed by a presentation by Herbert Smith Freehills Partner Antony Crockett on how to approach compliance with this regulation in China.

• 2024-06-20 | 15:30 - 17:00
• Online

This event is co-organized by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China and the Sino-German Energy Partnership of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), acting on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission and National Energy Administration.

• 2024-06-18 | 15:00 - 17:30
• Beijing Yuyang Hotel and Zoom

The European Chamber is thus pleased to invite you to our next Working Group meeting, where China Policy Macroeconomic Analyst Itamar Waksman will provide an overview of the ‘new quality productive forces’.

• 2024-06-17 | 16:30 - 17:30
• European Chamber Beijing Office