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

Originally trained as a barrister, Jeanne-Marie Gescher first came to China in 1987 to teach at Peking University (Beida).

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.

                              In the following article experts from the China IPR SME Helpdesk plot the development of China’s treatment of intellectual property (IP) over the past four decades.

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

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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.