No Smoking, Please
On the eve of Beijing’s city-wide indoor smoking ban, the Bird’s Nest National Stadium morphed into a giant no-smoking sign. Banners draped across the icon of the 2008 Olympics announced the…
Delegation of 25 Joins China-Northeast Asia Expo
An AmCham China delegation led by AmCham China Vice Chairman Lester Ross took part in the 10th China-Northeast Asia Expo in Changchun, giving speeches and meeting with officials. During the expo, which lasted…
NDRC Briefing on the Anti-Monopoly Law
China’s enforcement of its Anti-Monopoly Law is an important compliance factor for foreign companies doing business in China. The Price Supervision and Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)…
Emerging Trends in Industrial Property Symposium
Industrial and logistics property in China has only recently become a viable, institutional grade, real estate investment asset class. Urbanization is playing a significant role in the emergence of industrial property, and…
What ‘Made in China 2025’ Means for You
In March, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced the “Made in China 2025” economic initiative. At its core, this program seeks to remake Chinese manufacturing by reducing labor-intensive production in favor of high-tech…
New Member Spotlight: Edmund Ko
Hometown: Hong Kong Member since: May 2015 What has been your career path? The hotel business has been my career since the beginning. I’ve been working in hotels for 30 years,…
Briefing on Project Everyone
On September 25, 2015, the United Nations will launch its post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals agenda, which aims to achieve three targets—ending extreme poverty, fighting inequality & injustice, and tackling climate change.…
China Reform Series: The Financial Sector
Following from our May discussion of the Third Plenum’s reform agenda, the latest in the “China Reform Series,” held Aug. 24, dug deeper into key areas of financial sector reform, including interest…
White Paper Delivery: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On August 18, AmCham China Chairman James Zimmerman led a delegation to meet with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Assistant Minister Zheng Zeguang to deliver the 2015 White Paper. During the meeting,…
Podcast: The Era of Digital Agriculture
Since 1900, agriculture has been through huge transformations: mechanization, hybridization, chemization, genetic modification. The time has come for the "Digital Agriculture Era." The Agriculture Forum invited John Power, President & Senior…