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Financial instability and failing banks, gloomy economic forecasts, rising unemployment and a slowdown in domestic and overseas consumption are having a significant impact on the world’s status quo as we know it. Who will emerge stronger after this recession is over? What is China doing to bolster its economic position and to maintain social stability? How will China and the West re-invent themselves to survive and what are the implications for the future?
Faced with these big questions and the enormous and far-reaching implications of the current recession, Chopsticks Business in partnership with Schmittzehe & Partners China Advisory and Chatham House bring you a series of three China-focused events in 2009 focusing on the world economic crisis, China’s move up the value chain and China’s shift from export to domestic consumption.
Seminar 1 03 June
The World Economic Crisis and China: what is the Stimulus Package, will it work and what should we expect next?
The Chinese government has announced a RMB 4 trillion stimulus package. What is this stimulus package? How much of it is ‘real’ money? How is it being spent? Which Chinese companies are most likely to benefit? Last but not least, what are the implications and opportunities for foreign businesses and financial investors?
Speakers to include:
Jeremy Gordon, UKTI
Gareth Leather, Economist Intelligence Unit
Benjamin Schmittzehe, Schmittzehe & Partners
Chair:
Dr Kerry Brown, Chatham House
Seminar 2 21 September
China moves up the Value Chain at home and overseas: How will it achieve this and will it work?
“Made in China” has long been associated with low value and low quality. However, with a newly found fervour, a rise in the number of creative entrepreneurs and government-led emphasis on innovation, China is set to shift from being a producer of cheap goods for export to emerge as a creator of quality goods of increased value and design. Will these goods and services be aimed at the domestic market? Which brands have international aspirations? What challenges do Chinese organisations face to be recognised internationally and will they manage in the competitive, international market-place?
Seminar 3 12 November
China: The shift from export to domestic consumption
China’s meteoric, economic rise has largely been driven by Western consumer desires and the lure of cheaper production and labour costs available in China. Over the last decade, China has seen the emergence of a vast middle class whose consumer desires have fuelled domestic consumption resulting in huge demand for white goods and cars to luxury brands and holidays. What impact will this all have on the local manufacturing scene and providers of services? How will companies adapt and tailor their goods to suit the local Chinese consumer and at what cost?
Event details:
Location:
All events will be held at Chatham House, 10 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LE
Time:
From 13.30 for registration.
14.00 – 17.00 panel discussion followed by interactive debate and networking opportunities.
Added value:
Summary research white paper on the Stimulus Package and a discount on the full published report for all attendees.
Ticket price:
£45.00 per person per event or £99 if booking all three events.
[£35 per person per event or £75 if booking all three events for Chatham House and Chopsticks Club members].
Who should attend?
These events are being run for the business community. Consequently, senior executives from organizations with significant operations and interests in China would benefit from taking part.
Bookings can be made via http://www.chopsticksclub.com/dyn/pages/chopsticks-business
For further information and enquiries please contact
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or H-J Colston on 07881 935412.
The Organisers
The Chopsticks Club is the UK’s most unique China-related professionals’ network and is well regarded in Chinese and British business and community circles. The Club has 15 years experience in delivering a broad range of knowledge events to a China-focused audience. The Chopsticks Club has over 400 members and its monthly newsletter is received by over 1,000 individuals representing key industry sectors and organisations.
 The director, Ms H-J Colston, herself a mandarin Chinese graduate from the University of Durham and with experience working as business development manager for a joint venture company in Beijing in the mid 1990s, has delivered over 350 events including business workshops for entrepreneurs, dinner / speaker events and mandarin language tuition classes. The Club’s 15th Anniversary event held in September 2008 was attended by leading China experts from corporations and charitable organisations as well as the Ambassador from the PRC, Madame Fu Ying.
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Schmittzehe & Partners Consulting is an affiliate of The Sustainomics Group, a high value-add China-focused management consultancy staffed by seasoned China business and Corporate Finance professionals with offices in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong), Europe (London, Munich), and Latin America (Sao Paulo). We provide the following services:
- China in & outbound Corporate Finance M&A: analysis & strategy, target identification, business due diligence, valuation & structuring
- China in & outbound Business Development: analysis & strategy, partner identification & selection, interim management
Benjamin Schmittzehe is the Chief Executive of Schmittzehe & Partners, a China-focused high value-add management consultancy offering China in and outbound Business Development and Corporate Finance M&A advisory services as well as execution including interim management. Schmittzehe & Partners is an affiliate of The Sustainomics Group. Benjamin is currently based in London but spends much of his time working on consultancy projects and transactions out of the Group’s offices in Beijing and Shanghai. He has advised and assisted medium and large multinational companies and financial institutions in strategy formulation, and investments across a wide range of sectors in China. Prior to consulting, Benjamin worked in Corporate Development and General Management roles for Microsoft and the Swire Group, where he began working in China in 1991. He was the first non-Chinese representative for the Swire Group in China in the Group’s 139 year history there. Benjamin was educated at Oxford University (BA Hons, Chinese; MA Oxon.) and INSEAD (MBA).
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Chatham House
Founded in 1920 and home to the Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House is famous worldwide for initiating the Chatham House Rule, facilitating free speech and confidentiality at meetings.
The mission of Chatham House is to be a world-leading source of independent analysis, informed debate and influential ideas on how to build a prosperous and secure world for all.
Chatham House pursues this mission:
- by drawing on its membership to promote open as well as confidential debates about significant developments in international affairs and about the context and content of policy responses
- by producing independent and rigorous analysis of critical global, regional and country-specific challenges;
- by offering new ideas to decision-makers and -shapers on how these could best be tackled from the near to long term
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