On 7th September, a delegation of members attended the annual Symposium for Multinational Corporations 2006, chaired by Vice Premier Madame Wu Yi and organised by the Ministry of Commerce. The Chamber took the opportunity to present a copy of the Position Paper 2006/2007 to Madam Wu and Vice Minister of Read more…
May European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Charlie McCreevy visited Beijing and Shanghai. Commissioner McCreevy had talks with Chinese government officials and met with Chamber members in Shanghai to discuss the Chinese financial sector and the hurdles that European financial services providers face in China. June European Commissioner Peter Read more…
13th July Vice Minister Li Shenglin of National Development and Reform Commission Met with Pharmaceutical Working Group members. 14th July EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel met with Food and Beverage Working Group members. 1st September Commissioner Mandelson attended the Position Paper launch to endorse it Read more…
The European Chamber celebrated the opening of its Tianjin Chapter on 1st December 2005. Over 100 companies attended the ceremony. The Mayor of Tianjin Dai Xianglong met with the EU Ambassador to China Serge Abou, European Chamber President Serge Janssens de Varebeke, Executive General Manager Giorgio Magistrelli and the Tianjin Read more…
On 7th April 2005, the official launch of the Chengdu Chapter of the European Chamber was held, at which 15 Ambassadors of the European Union attended, including EU Ambassador to China Serge Abou and Luxembourg Ambassador to China Marc Ungeheuer, whose country then held the rotating EU presidency. The ceremony took place during an Read more…
The 2nd EU-China Business Summit attracted over 700 people in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 5th September 2005, including Chinese Premier Wen, British Prime Minister Blair, European Commission President Barroso and business leaders from China and Europe. Jointly organised by the European Chamber, the Summit ran alongside the Read more…
On 25th February 2005, during EU Commissioner for Trade Peter Mandelson’s first visit to China since taking up the post in November 2004, he attended the inauguration of the European Chamber’s new Beijing office. Congratulating the Chamber on its work, the Commissioner said, “The detailed briefings you prepare are exactly Read more…
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and Chinese Minister of Commerce met with a delegation of the Advisory Council of the European Chamber on 15th July 2005. This event offered an opportunity for enhanced communications between the Chamber and both the European Union and the Chinese Government.
This article is from the June 2004 issue of EURObiz. Enthusiasm for China reverberated around the European institutions last month following Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Brussels. Premier Wen was accompanied by a business delegation with representatives from more than 160 Chinese companies, on his first visit to the Read more…
Over 30 foreign businesses in Nanjing turned up to the launch of the new Chapter of the European Chamber on 15th April, in what has been described by Chamber President Serge Janssens de Varebeke as “overwhelming support for this new Chapter”. In a move that will further strengthen the presence Read more…
