History and presence of chambers of commerce and industry associations in China

A window of opportunity

By examining the quality of a country’s institutions relative to its gross domestic product per capita, a clear pattern emerges.

Europe is China’s largest trading partner, and China is now the EU’s second largest; trade between the two regions has doubled over the last decade to more than EUR 1 billion a day. President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Brussels was a game-changing event. It…