Join us on the afternoon of the 17th November as we take stock of the 19th Party Congress and what its outcomes might mean for China's political and business environment and foreign policy going forward. Our two experts will shine a light on how-and to what extent-power has been consolidated within the system, what - if any- changes will be made to the government's institutional set-up and what the likely implications of all of these things will be for China's economic policies.

• 2017-11-17 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

The European Chamber is delighted to welcome speakers from Baker McKenzie, Carrefour and Tate and Lyle to share with participants their views on IP Protection and the Regulatory Environment in the food and beverage sector in China.

• 2017-11-14 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

In this event, Michele Wucker will draw on her extensive background in policy formation and crisis management, recent work in cognitive science and decision making, and in-depth interviews with leaders from around the world to explain how to recognize and strategically counter high-impact dangers. The questions she raises are provocative, and all the more powerful for being deceptively simple.

• 2017-11-01 | 09:00 - 10:10
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

At this European Chamber event, two PSU experts, Andrew Houlbrook and Hanna Severin, and Xiaofan Chen from AWA Asia will take participants through several case studies and present how to do Market Research and identify sales platforms and dig in the dark to collect admissible evidence.

• 2017-10-25 | 16:00 - 17:50
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Shui On Plaza, Unit 2204

Industry concentration in special parks and enforcement of environmental and safety regulations are leading to an increasing number of company relocations. Join us in this seminar to learn from Taylor Wessing, InterChina and Festo about the Chinese legal framework and real experiences.

• 2017-10-24 | 09:00 - 11:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

The European Chamber is delighted in welcoming Vivian Wu, a partner at Baker McKenzie and Lars Ake Severin, CEO at PSU China Consulting, to highlight steps companies should undertake to ensure they have appropriate compliance programs put in in place to respond to whistle blowing. This advice extends to how companies should respond if an employee brings forward accusations of misconduct or how they should react if they are subject to a dawn raid by authorities.

• 2017-10-19 | 16:00 - 18:00
• Four Seasons Hotel, QING I

Ms. Angela Mou, Vice President, Corporate Communication of Tetra Pak Greater China will share Tetra Pak’s idea and practices in driving environmental excellence, and keeping sustainability as part of the core business development and to inspire people to be part of the change through the cooperation with various partners.

• 2017-10-19 | 09:00 - 10:30
• The European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

With the new application system for foreigners’ work permit implemented on April 1st 2017 and the 2017 Foreign Permanent Resident ID starting to process in June in Shanghai, the batch of newly promulgated policies have drawn much attention as well as confusion. How has this new system been implemented in Shanghai over the past months? Which lessons can be learned from the visa application experiences in practice?

• 2017-10-18 | 16:00 - 17:50
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

The European Chamber is delighted to welcome Dr Yukon Huang, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and a former World Bank Director for China, advisor to the World Bank, ADB, AIIB and various governments and corporations, to share with participants his view on the upcoming Party Congress, based on his book “Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom is wrong”.

• 2017-10-17 | 09:00 - 10:30
• INTERCONTINENTAL SHANGHAI PUDONG

The European Chamber is glad to invite you to a dialogue on the new regulations on soil and groundwater pollution that will take place on Thursday, 21st September, 9:00-11:00 in the European Chamber Shanghai office.

China's public enemy number one is environmental pollution. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, the authorities have considered necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive. The European Chamber has invited several experts to address these new requirements and liabilities on the new regulations on soil and groundwater contamination for enterprises and the practical approach to prevent soil pollution.

• 2017-09-21 | 09:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204