Following Deng Xiaoping’s reforms China became a land of opportunities for many foreigners wishing to establish businesses and challenge themselves in a new country.

China’s service sector has been given increased importance since the launch of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (CSPFTZ) and its Negative List approach and the subsequent Third Plenum Decision last year. It is notable that the Negative List underwent a revision on 1st…

Relations between the European Union and China have made significant advances in recent months.

In this article Axel Berger of the German Development Institute takes a broad view of the current EU-China investment negotiations with respect to other international processes.

After the recent period of EU-China trade friction, trade relations between the two regions are now on a more even keel.

Launched in 2004, the EU-China Trade Project (EUCTP), is the largest trade and investment-related cooperation project with China.

  From an EU perspective there are a number of reasons to feel positive about current EU-China trade and investment relations

The purpose of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China’s European Business In China Business Confidence Survey (BCS) is to take an annual snapshot of European companies’ successes and challenges in China. Now in its tenth year, the survey has enabled the European Chamber…

There have been a number of recent regulatory developments concerning finance lease companies in China.

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…