This year marks the 6th anniversary of the EU-China SME Dialogue.

The purpose of the European Chamber’s European Business in China Business Confidence Survey is to take an annual snapshot of European companies’ successes and challenges in China.

This year is very significant for EU-China bilateral relations as it has been 40 years since their establishment on 6th May, 1975.

  There have been many changes in the Chinese economy over the past decade.

  Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) collectively accounting for over 99 per cent of all enterprises and creating 85 per cent of all the new jobs in the last five years.

  It’s time for a re-set of the European Union’s (EU’s) messy and frequently mismanaged relations with China.

  A perennial challenge for SMEs is access to financing, a problem that is particularly prevalent in China according to European companies operating here.

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On the eve of the launch of their Beijing office, Interel’s global CEO Fredrik Lofthagen briefed the Chamber’s Energy Working Group on the changing energy policy in the new European Commission and parliament.

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