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Digital Marketing for Industrial Goods in China
Date: May 21, 2026
Event: Supported Webinar
Time: (9:30-10:30 a.m. DK/3:30-4:30 p.m. CN)
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China’s Strategic Minerals Sector today – building towards an integrated exploration, production, supply, storage and sales system
Date: May 28, 2026
Event: Supported Webinar
Time: Beijing Time - 15:00-15:45 Copenhagen Time 09:00-09:45
About the Webinar
The second session in China Macro Groups 'Sector Dialogues' webinar series, Markus Hermann Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Director of China Macro Group, will be in conversation with esteemed guest Mr. David Bo, Independent Director of Zijin Mining, Asia Potash, and Lingbao Gold.
As global competition intensifies over critical minerals, the race to secure stable and diversified supply is rapidly reshaping the industry—redefining investment strategies, supply chain configurations, and international partnerships.
Against this backdrop, China is advancing a more integrated approach to strategic resource governance. A key policy signal from the 2024 Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee’s Decision on Further Deepening Reform and Advancing Chinese Modernization calls to”完善战略性矿产资源探产供储销统筹和衔接体系” (Improve the overall planning and coordination system for the exploration, production, supply storage and sales of strategic mineral resources), underscoring the importance of coordinating the full value chain—from exploration and production to supply, storage, and end-use.
In this webinar, Mr. David Bo will share insights from both policy and industry perspectives, exploring:
- How the global race for critical minerals is reshaping the sector
- China’s approach to building an integrated “探产供储销” system
- The implications for supply chain security and industrial resilience
- What this means for international business, investors, and policymakers
Mr. David Bo has over 30 years of experience in mining and oil & gas, beginning his career at PetroChina before joining the Ivanhoe group in 1996, where he held various managerial roles, including General Manager of Business Development at Ivanhoe Capital Corporation. Over the past 20 years, he has served on the boards of multiple international companies and advised firms on mergers & acquisitions, financing, corporate development, and joint ventures.
(Members of DCBF can register for free) - Sign up here
About the Webinar Series
DCBF is thrilled to announce a new thread of webinars launched by China Macro Group (CMG), focusing on key sectors of the Chinese economy. Their goal is to curate relevant and practical dialogues with sector representatives engaging on wide-ranging issues across market and policy trends, as well as the role of foreign business, geopolitical factors or sector sentiment more generally.
Building on their 'Staying in Dialogue with China' webinar series which focuses on macro policy factors using a political economy lens to discuss relevant trends and impacts for international business, whereas the ‘Sector Dialogue’ are designed to help connect the macro- to the meso-, and ultimately the micro-level business picture across different sectors in the Chinese economy.
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Digital Marketing for Industrial Goods in China
Date: May 21, 2026
Event: Supported Webinar
Time: (9:30-10:30 a.m. DK/3:30-4:30 p.m. CN)
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China’s Strategic Minerals Sector today – building towards an integrated exploration, production, supply, storage and sales system
Date: May 28, 2026
Event: Supported Webinar
Time: Beijing Time - 15:00-15:45 Copenhagen Time 09:00-09:45
About the Webinar
The second session in China Macro Groups 'Sector Dialogues' webinar series, Markus Hermann Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Director of China Macro Group, will be in conversation with esteemed guest Mr. David Bo, Independent Director of Zijin Mining, Asia Potash, and Lingbao Gold.
As global competition intensifies over critical minerals, the race to secure stable and diversified supply is rapidly reshaping the industry—redefining investment strategies, supply chain configurations, and international partnerships.
Against this backdrop, China is advancing a more integrated approach to strategic resource governance. A key policy signal from the 2024 Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee’s Decision on Further Deepening Reform and Advancing Chinese Modernization calls to”完善战略性矿产资源探产供储销统筹和衔接体系” (Improve the overall planning and coordination system for the exploration, production, supply storage and sales of strategic mineral resources), underscoring the importance of coordinating the full value chain—from exploration and production to supply, storage, and end-use.
In this webinar, Mr. David Bo will share insights from both policy and industry perspectives, exploring:
- How the global race for critical minerals is reshaping the sector
- China’s approach to building an integrated “探产供储销” system
- The implications for supply chain security and industrial resilience
- What this means for international business, investors, and policymakers
Mr. David Bo has over 30 years of experience in mining and oil & gas, beginning his career at PetroChina before joining the Ivanhoe group in 1996, where he held various managerial roles, including General Manager of Business Development at Ivanhoe Capital Corporation. Over the past 20 years, he has served on the boards of multiple international companies and advised firms on mergers & acquisitions, financing, corporate development, and joint ventures.
(Members of DCBF can register for free) - Sign up here
About the Webinar Series
DCBF is thrilled to announce a new thread of webinars launched by China Macro Group (CMG), focusing on key sectors of the Chinese economy. Their goal is to curate relevant and practical dialogues with sector representatives engaging on wide-ranging issues across market and policy trends, as well as the role of foreign business, geopolitical factors or sector sentiment more generally.
Building on their 'Staying in Dialogue with China' webinar series which focuses on macro policy factors using a political economy lens to discuss relevant trends and impacts for international business, whereas the ‘Sector Dialogue’ are designed to help connect the macro- to the meso-, and ultimately the micro-level business picture across different sectors in the Chinese economy.
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DCBF Trade Policy Meeting
Date: February 25, 2026
Time: 14:00-16:00
Event: Focus Group Meeting
Speaker: H.E. Michael Starbæk Christensen
Location: Hempel HQ Lundtoftegårdsvej 91, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby
As China outlines its priorities for the coming years, this meeting offers a timely opportunity to exchange views on the expected challenges and opportunities in the Chinese market with the Danish Ambassador. The session also provides valuable insights into fellow member companies’ perspectives on the current state of Denmark–China relations and their expectations for the future direction of bilateral engagement, allowing participants to discuss trends, share experiences, and explore potential strategies for navigating the evolving business and political landscape in China.
NB: This meeting will be conducted under the Chatham House Rule and is open by invitation only to DCBF members.
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Political, Economic & Commercial Update on China 2026
Date: January 29, 2026
Time: 10:00-11:30 CET
Event: Signature Event
Over the next five years, China will enter a phase of strategic recalibration shaped by the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan. The policy direction for 2026-2030 is expected to emphasize technological self-reliance, enhanced national security measures, and a continued restructuring of the economy toward sustainable, innovation-driven growth. Meanwhile, global trade tensions, geopolitical uncertainty, and an intensifying tech race are creating new complexities for businesses and economies worldwide.
This webinar addresses a central question: What can Danish companies anticipate from China's policy agenda in 2026-2030, the period defined by the new Five-Year Plan?
Sign up for our annual webinar and gain up-to-date insights from our experts on the business environment, economic trends, and political developments shaping China over the coming half-decade.
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"Reality check" - Interpreting the 15th Five-Year-Plan "proposition" as per the 20th Central Committee's 4th Plenum and anticipating shifts
Date: January 23, 2026
Time: 9:00-9:45 CET - 16:00-16:45 CST
Event: Supported Webinar
In the fifth session of the webinar series “Staying in Dialogue with China 2025/26”, Markus Herrmann Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Director, China Macro Group (CMG) will be talking to Yao Yang, Professor and Dean of the Dishuihu Advanced Finance Insitute, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and former Dean of Peking University's national School of Development (NSD).
This dialogue with leading Chinese economist Yao Yang will discuss the "Proposition" (建议) as endorsed by the Fourth Plenum of the CCP's 20th Central Committee. Held between the 20th and 23rd of October, 2025, it defined the policy substance that is now guiding the state bureaucracy to draft the national 15th Five-Year-Plan (2026-2030).
The 15th FYP will be deliberated, formally endorsed by the National People's Congress and published in the first half of March 2026. This dialogue is primarily targeting European business to provide a clearer sense of how the Chinese market and economy as a strategic business context for international business are evolving.
Key questions that will be discussed in this dialogue include:
- What the policy slogan "investing in people" (投资于人) really means
- How the "new-quality productive forces" as industrial policy framework succeeding Made-in-China 2025 are being planned
- Will there be a stronger emphasis on China's new growth drivers such as household consumption and service
- How China can increase its Total Factor Productivity
- If China's "anti-involution" measures show momentum
- What new and proactive wordings of China's agency and goals in foreign affairs mean
- and if there will be a general policy recalibration towards less emphasis on security compared to development interests
Join this webinar to help better anticipate key policy priorities and shifts of China's next Five-Year-Plan. Click here to read more and sign up!
About the Webinar Series:
This webinar is part of the webinar series 'Staying in Dialogue with China'. The series will bring you six webinars with distinguished China-based experts, concentrated between February 2025 and February 2026.
'Staying in dialogue with China' is organized and hosted by China Macro Group (CMG), with Caixin Global as Anchor Partner, in cooperation with China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Chinaforum Bayern, Swissmem, Danish-Chinese Business Forum (DCBF), SwissCham China, the Stein am Rhein Symposium (stars), Norwegian Business Association China (NBA China), and EuroCham Singapore.
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China’s business outlook for Europe at the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030)
Date: January 15, 2026
Time: 14:00-16:00
Event: Focus Group Meeting
Speaker: Markus Herrmann Chen, China Macro Group
Location: Danfoss CPH Office, Knud Højgaards Hus, Hauser Plads 1, 1127 København K
As 2026 marks the official beginning of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan, this meeting provides a timely opportunity to exchange perspectives on key risk, policy development, and strategic uncertainties shaping the Chinese business environment. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss these dynamics, and to explore how broader geopolitical shifts may affect long-term planning, supply-chain resilience, and market engagement.
The meeting also offers candid peer exchanges on emerging challenges and decision-making considerations, helping to inform more robust corporate risk assessments at a moment of accelerating global change.
NB: This meeting will be conducted under the Chatham House Rule and is open by invitation only to DCBF members.
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"Changes unseen in a century" - how Beijing sees foreign affair, geopolitics and geoeconomics as it drafts the 15th Five-Year-Plan
Date: October 09, 2025
Time: 9:00-9:45 CEST - 15:00-15:45 CST
Event: Supported Webinar
For the fourth webinar in the 2025 webinar series "Staying in Dialogue with China", China Macro Group will be joined by Prof. Yu Tiejun, President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS), and Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS) at Peking University. As one of China's leading IR scholars, Prof. Yu is an influential domestic voice active both in public discourse and in the Chinese foreign policy community. In addition, his academic stints at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Tokyo highlights his experiences engaging internationally.
About the Webinar
This webinar will offer a broad analysis of China’s foreign policy landscape, strategic priorities, and key risks ahead of the CCP’s “Fourth Plenum,” expected in October to set the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Furthermore, China Macro Group will provide up-to-date insights to assist listeners and their businesses in developing informed approaches to strategy, planning, resilience, and investment decisions.
The following key topics will be covered:
- Current dynamics of critical bilateral relationships (China-US, China-EU and China-Russia).
- Security issues such as cross-strait relations and China's ambitions in global governance.
- China's agenda for "non-Western" and regional formats such as BRICS+ or the SCO.
- Important geoeconomic factors such as China's broader "self-reliance" policy and its use of export controls.
Take this opportunity to gain the latest insights ahead of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan through this timely webinar, and receive answers to your questions. Click here to read more and sign up!
About the Webinar Series:
This webinar is part of the webinar series 'Staying in Dialogue with China'. The series will bring you six webinars with distinguished China-based experts, concentrated between February and December 2025.
"Staying in dialogue with China" is organized and hosted by China Macro Group (CMG), with Caixin Global as Anchor Partner, in cooperation with China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Chinaforum Bayern, Swissmem, Danish-Chinese Business Forum (DCBF), SwissCham China, the Stein am Rhein Symposium (stars), Sweden-China Trade Council (SCTC), Norwegian Business Association China (NBA China), EuroCham Singapore and China-Britain Business Council.
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HQ-Subsidiary: Are the Existing Communication Structures optimal?
Date: August 26, 2025
Time: 13:00-15:00 CET
Event: Conference
DCBF is pleased to announce the second event in our Risk Seminar Series - this edition will explore the strategic implications of the growing decoupling between corporate headquarters (HQs) and China operations.
Recent reports highlight a growing operational disconnect between Danish headquarters (HQs) and their China subsidiaries – driven by localization, regulatory pressures, and reduced cross-border mobility. This misalignment is undermining collaboration, responsiveness, and global competitiveness.
- Manuel Dornetshuber, VP, Marketing and ComEx China & BD APAC, Coloplast Chronic Care
- Michael Madsen, Head of Transfer Pricing, Danfoss
About the event
Drawing on insights from senior executives at Coloplast and Danfoss, this seminar examines the risks of disengagement and siloed operations and discusses how Danish MNCs can recalibrate their strategies to strengthen cross-border collaboration, enhance trust, and maintain operational coherence.
At the heart of the discussion lies a fundamental question: What level of coordination, integration, and mutual understanding is required to ensure that HQs remain informed and agile, while enabling China-based teams to act effectively and autonomously?
The event will feature case examples, interactive dialogue, and practical reflections on:
- Communication structures that foster alignment across borders.
- The importance of trust-building, mobility, and long-term integration strategies.
- Organizational models that balance central control and local responsiveness.
For more information and registration, please send us a message at info@dcbf.dk.
About the Risk Seminar Series
Since COVID-19, companies have become increasingly aware of the organizational risks involved in operating globally, particularly in China. To support multinational companies in addressing these challenges, DCBF will host three targeted events in 2025, structured to progress from the micro to the macro level.
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The “Taiwan issue” under Trump 2.0
Date: July 10, 2025
Time: 9:00-9:45 CEST - 15:00-15:45 CST
Event: Supported Webinar
About the Flash Webinar:
Before the summer holidays officially takes a hold on us, China Macro Group (CMG) will host a flash webinar on Thursday, July 10th 2025, 9 am CEST, to discuss the “Taiwan issue” under Trump 2.0.
From declarations at The Hague NATO Summit and Taiwan President Lai’s dialed-up rhetoric to the CCP’s new concept of “integrated or fused development” of Fujian province with Taiwan, TSMC’s new investment in the US, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou’s track 2.0 diplomacy, and persisting PLA exercises around Taiwan:
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What are the most important recent developments for European businesses doing cross-strait business?
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What significance do these developments carry for the stability of cross-strait relations?
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Which are the key analytical indicators to watch moving forward?
CMG Senior Advisor Frans-Paul van der Putten will moderate the webinar with Prof. Wu Yongping, Vice Dean of the School of Public Administration at Tsinghua University to provide in-depth analysis and expert perspectives on this complex and timely topic for interested participants.
This webinar will analyze and discuss key aspects of the evolving yet ever-complex “Taiwan issue” to support European and international business’ monitoring efforts and strategic decision-making regarding China and the Chinese market.
Take the opportunity to listen in and ask your questions to Vice-Dean Wu Yongping. Members of DCBF can register for free - Click here to sign up!
About China Macro Group:
CMG is a specialized European management consulting and research firm providing original, fact-based and calibrated China research and analysis to advise European corporate, investment and public sectors on strategic decision-making related to China and the Chinese market. CMG specializes in addressing management challenges shaped by developments in China’s political economy, international trade and market environment, ranging from strategy, footprint/organizational design, HQ-subsidiary interactions to strategic partnerships and negotiations.
In their research and analytical methodology, CMG integrates the four disciplines of: business/strategic management, public policy, macro-economy and international affairs.
Click here to learn more about CMG, and screen through their insightful primers and analyses (members of DCBF can read them for free).
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"The Long View" - 10-Year Outlook Imagining CN in 2035 as the Next Key Modernization Milestone
Date: June 20, 2025
Time: 9:00-9:45 CEST - 15:00-15:45 CST
Event: Supported Webinar
In the third session of the 2025 webinar series “Staying in Dialogue with China”, which is dedicated to the theme of China's next and upcoming 15th Five-Year-Plan (2026-2030), Markus Herrmann Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Director, China Macro Group (CMG) will be talking to Zhang Dandan, Professor in Economics and Deputy Dean of the National School of Development (NSD) of Peking University.
Members of DCBF can register for free - Click here to read more and sign up!
About the Webinar
Amid China’s continuously difficult post-Covid economic recovery as well as persisting structural issues such as the real estate market, industrial overcapacity and local government debt, this webinar deliberately takes the “long view”, providing a 10-year outlook and imagining China in 2035 as the next key modernization milestone – the mid-term goal announced as part of the 14th Five-Year-Plan in March 2021. This has been only the second time a regular Five-Year-Plan takes a planning horizon beyond the regular five years, the previous one being the 6th Five-Year-Plan (1981-1985) which proposed goals for the four ensuing Five-Year-Plan periods until the end of the century with the goal of quadrupling China’s GDP.
By 2035, and by accomplishing the goals of the 15th and 16th Five-Year-Plans, Chinese planners seek to achieve the “basic socialist modernization” (基本实现社会主义现代化), which in its core wants to – again – double China’s GDP, over the period from 2020 to 2035, which assumes a sustained year-on-year average real growth of 4.7% GDP, plus increase the share of China’s middle income group from 35% to 50% as some of its most important policy goals.
The following key questions will be explored:
- How to understand current economic difficulties when seen from a long-term planning and structural reform perspective?
- In hindsight, how «radical» were the decisions adopted by the CCP’s “Third Plenum” in July 2024?
- Which parts of the 14th Five-Year-Plan have been most effectively implemented when measured against the respective ambition level?
- How should foreign business take into account a policy planning goal for 2035?
- What are the key “make-or-break” reforms to achieve the 2035 goal such as China’s demographic transition?
- NDRC stresses that “changes unseen in a century” must be duly considered in long-term planning, what long-term scenario(s) do planners use?
- What are key policy shifts and changes to be expected by the upcoming 15th Five-Year-Plan?
- Referring to the 20 KPIs of the 14th Five-Year-Plan, what new set of KPIs will be the “right” ones to help guide development up to 2035?
- What role do governmental research versus societal inputs (e.g. the citizen issue collection, 政民互动问题征集) play in long-term planning?
Take the opportunity to listen in and ask your questions to Vice-Dean Zhang Dandan.
About the Webinar Series:
This webinar is part of the webinar series 'Staying in Dialogue with China'. The series will bring you six webinars with distinguished China-based experts, concentrated between February and December 2025.
'Staying in dialogue with China' is organized and hosted by China Macro Group (CMG), with Caixin Global as Anchor Partner, in cooperation with China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Chinaforum Bayern, Swissmem, Danish-Chinese Business Forum (DCBF), SwissCham China, the Stein am Rhein Symposium (stars), Sweden-China Trade Council (SCTC), Norwegian Business Association China (NBA China), Danish Chamber of Commerce in China (DCCC), EuroCham Singapore and China-Britain Business Council.
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Managing Financial, Operational and Digital Communications
Date: June 17, 2025
Time: 14:00-16:00 CET
Event: Conference
Danish-Chinese Business Forum invites you to the opening event of a high-level seminar series on risk management.
About the event
As Danish companies evaluate the risks of operating in - and staying out of - China, this hybrid seminar will address critical aspects of financial, operational, and digital risk.
Attend in person in Aarhus, or join us online, to explore how communication structures can be strengthened to improve risk management, data security and corporate accountability.
The event is relevant for all professionals across sectors navigating organizational or multinational risk exposure in China.
Our speakers will present practical insights backed by experience and actionable case studies illustrating how inadequate operational systems and informal communication can result in data loss and ownership issues, and how supply chain audits can lead to improved compliance, alongside other examples.
For the first event at Arla Foods in Aarhus, we are pleased to welcome three expert speakers with firsthand experience in managing risk in China:
- Yael Farjun, China Deputy GM, PTL Group - “Mitigating Human and Financial Risks for Multinationals Operating in China.”
- Søren B. Jensen, Managing Director, Mictory Ltd. - “Visualizing Operational Risk for Strategic Clarity.”
- Niels Christian Flintholm, Partner, Leaf Digital - “De-risking Digital Communication.”
For more information and registration, please send us a message at info@dcbf.dk
About the Risk Seminar Series
Since COVID-19, companies have become increasingly aware of the organizational risks involved in operating globally, particularly in China. To support multinational companies in addressing these challenges, DCBF will host three targeted events in 2025, structured to progress from the micro to the macro level.
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DCBF Trade Policy Meeting
Date: February 25, 2026
Event: Focus Group Meeting
Speaker: H.E. Michael Starbæk Christensen
Location: Hempel HQ Lundtoftegårdsvej 91, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby
As China outlines its priorities for the coming years, this meeting offers a timely opportunity to exchange views on the expected challenges and opportunities in the Chinese market with the Danish Ambassador. The session also provides valuable insights into fellow member companies’ perspectives on the current state of Denmark–China relations and their expectations for the future direction of bilateral engagement, allowing participants to discuss trends, share experiences, and explore potential strategies for navigating the evolving business and political landscape in China.
NB: This meeting will be conducted under the Chatham House Rule and is open by invitation only to DCBF members.
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Political, Economic & Commercial Update on China 2026
Date: January 29, 2026
Event: Signature Event
Over the next five years, China will enter a phase of strategic recalibration shaped by the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan. The policy direction for 2026-2030 is expected to emphasize technological self-reliance, enhanced national security measures, and a continued restructuring of the economy toward sustainable, innovation-driven growth. Meanwhile, global trade tensions, geopolitical uncertainty, and an intensifying tech race are creating new complexities for businesses and economies worldwide.
This webinar addresses a central question: What can Danish companies anticipate from China's policy agenda in 2026-2030, the period defined by the new Five-Year Plan?
Sign up for our annual webinar and gain up-to-date insights from our experts on the business environment, economic trends, and political developments shaping China over the coming half-decade.
Back
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"Reality check" - Interpreting the 15th Five-Year-Plan "proposition" as per the 20th Central Committee's 4th Plenum and anticipating shifts
Date: January 23, 2026
Event: Supported Webinar
In the fifth session of the webinar series “Staying in Dialogue with China 2025/26”, Markus Herrmann Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Director, China Macro Group (CMG) will be talking to Yao Yang, Professor and Dean of the Dishuihu Advanced Finance Insitute, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and former Dean of Peking University's national School of Development (NSD).
This dialogue with leading Chinese economist Yao Yang will discuss the "Proposition" (建议) as endorsed by the Fourth Plenum of the CCP's 20th Central Committee. Held between the 20th and 23rd of October, 2025, it defined the policy substance that is now guiding the state bureaucracy to draft the national 15th Five-Year-Plan (2026-2030).
The 15th FYP will be deliberated, formally endorsed by the National People's Congress and published in the first half of March 2026. This dialogue is primarily targeting European business to provide a clearer sense of how the Chinese market and economy as a strategic business context for international business are evolving.
Key questions that will be discussed in this dialogue include:
- What the policy slogan "investing in people" (投资于人) really means
- How the "new-quality productive forces" as industrial policy framework succeeding Made-in-China 2025 are being planned
- Will there be a stronger emphasis on China's new growth drivers such as household consumption and service
- How China can increase its Total Factor Productivity
- If China's "anti-involution" measures show momentum
- What new and proactive wordings of China's agency and goals in foreign affairs mean
- and if there will be a general policy recalibration towards less emphasis on security compared to development interests
Join this webinar to help better anticipate key policy priorities and shifts of China's next Five-Year-Plan. Click here to read more and sign up!
About the Webinar Series:
This webinar is part of the webinar series 'Staying in Dialogue with China'. The series will bring you six webinars with distinguished China-based experts, concentrated between February 2025 and February 2026.
'Staying in dialogue with China' is organized and hosted by China Macro Group (CMG), with Caixin Global as Anchor Partner, in cooperation with China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Chinaforum Bayern, Swissmem, Danish-Chinese Business Forum (DCBF), SwissCham China, the Stein am Rhein Symposium (stars), Norwegian Business Association China (NBA China), and EuroCham Singapore.
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China’s business outlook for Europe at the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030)
Date: January 15, 2026
Event: Focus Group Meeting
Speaker: Markus Herrmann Chen, China Macro Group
Location: Danfoss CPH Office, Knud Højgaards Hus, Hauser Plads 1, 1127 København K
As 2026 marks the official beginning of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan, this meeting provides a timely opportunity to exchange perspectives on key risk, policy development, and strategic uncertainties shaping the Chinese business environment. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss these dynamics, and to explore how broader geopolitical shifts may affect long-term planning, supply-chain resilience, and market engagement.
The meeting also offers candid peer exchanges on emerging challenges and decision-making considerations, helping to inform more robust corporate risk assessments at a moment of accelerating global change.
NB: This meeting will be conducted under the Chatham House Rule and is open by invitation only to DCBF members.
Back
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"Changes unseen in a century" - how Beijing sees foreign affair, geopolitics and geoeconomics as it drafts the 15th Five-Year-Plan
Date: October 09, 2025
Event: Supported Webinar
For the fourth webinar in the 2025 webinar series "Staying in Dialogue with China", China Macro Group will be joined by Prof. Yu Tiejun, President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS), and Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS) at Peking University. As one of China's leading IR scholars, Prof. Yu is an influential domestic voice active both in public discourse and in the Chinese foreign policy community. In addition, his academic stints at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Tokyo highlights his experiences engaging internationally.
About the Webinar
This webinar will offer a broad analysis of China’s foreign policy landscape, strategic priorities, and key risks ahead of the CCP’s “Fourth Plenum,” expected in October to set the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Furthermore, China Macro Group will provide up-to-date insights to assist listeners and their businesses in developing informed approaches to strategy, planning, resilience, and investment decisions.
The following key topics will be covered:
- Current dynamics of critical bilateral relationships (China-US, China-EU and China-Russia).
- Security issues such as cross-strait relations and China's ambitions in global governance.
- China's agenda for "non-Western" and regional formats such as BRICS+ or the SCO.
- Important geoeconomic factors such as China's broader "self-reliance" policy and its use of export controls.
Take this opportunity to gain the latest insights ahead of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan through this timely webinar, and receive answers to your questions. Click here to read more and sign up!
About the Webinar Series:
This webinar is part of the webinar series 'Staying in Dialogue with China'. The series will bring you six webinars with distinguished China-based experts, concentrated between February and December 2025.
"Staying in dialogue with China" is organized and hosted by China Macro Group (CMG), with Caixin Global as Anchor Partner, in cooperation with China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Chinaforum Bayern, Swissmem, Danish-Chinese Business Forum (DCBF), SwissCham China, the Stein am Rhein Symposium (stars), Sweden-China Trade Council (SCTC), Norwegian Business Association China (NBA China), EuroCham Singapore and China-Britain Business Council.
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HQ-Subsidiary: Are the Existing Communication Structures optimal?
Date: August 26, 2025
Event: Conference
DCBF is pleased to announce the second event in our Risk Seminar Series - this edition will explore the strategic implications of the growing decoupling between corporate headquarters (HQs) and China operations.
Recent reports highlight a growing operational disconnect between Danish headquarters (HQs) and their China subsidiaries – driven by localization, regulatory pressures, and reduced cross-border mobility. This misalignment is undermining collaboration, responsiveness, and global competitiveness.
- Manuel Dornetshuber, VP, Marketing and ComEx China & BD APAC, Coloplast Chronic Care
- Michael Madsen, Head of Transfer Pricing, Danfoss
About the event
Drawing on insights from senior executives at Coloplast and Danfoss, this seminar examines the risks of disengagement and siloed operations and discusses how Danish MNCs can recalibrate their strategies to strengthen cross-border collaboration, enhance trust, and maintain operational coherence.
At the heart of the discussion lies a fundamental question: What level of coordination, integration, and mutual understanding is required to ensure that HQs remain informed and agile, while enabling China-based teams to act effectively and autonomously?
The event will feature case examples, interactive dialogue, and practical reflections on:
- Communication structures that foster alignment across borders.
- The importance of trust-building, mobility, and long-term integration strategies.
- Organizational models that balance central control and local responsiveness.
For more information and registration, please send us a message at info@dcbf.dk.
About the Risk Seminar Series
Since COVID-19, companies have become increasingly aware of the organizational risks involved in operating globally, particularly in China. To support multinational companies in addressing these challenges, DCBF will host three targeted events in 2025, structured to progress from the micro to the macro level.
Back
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The “Taiwan issue” under Trump 2.0
Date: July 10, 2025
Event: Supported Webinar
About the Flash Webinar:
Before the summer holidays officially takes a hold on us, China Macro Group (CMG) will host a flash webinar on Thursday, July 10th 2025, 9 am CEST, to discuss the “Taiwan issue” under Trump 2.0.
From declarations at The Hague NATO Summit and Taiwan President Lai’s dialed-up rhetoric to the CCP’s new concept of “integrated or fused development” of Fujian province with Taiwan, TSMC’s new investment in the US, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou’s track 2.0 diplomacy, and persisting PLA exercises around Taiwan:
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What are the most important recent developments for European businesses doing cross-strait business?
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What significance do these developments carry for the stability of cross-strait relations?
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Which are the key analytical indicators to watch moving forward?
CMG Senior Advisor Frans-Paul van der Putten will moderate the webinar with Prof. Wu Yongping, Vice Dean of the School of Public Administration at Tsinghua University to provide in-depth analysis and expert perspectives on this complex and timely topic for interested participants.
This webinar will analyze and discuss key aspects of the evolving yet ever-complex “Taiwan issue” to support European and international business’ monitoring efforts and strategic decision-making regarding China and the Chinese market.
Take the opportunity to listen in and ask your questions to Vice-Dean Wu Yongping. Members of DCBF can register for free - Click here to sign up!
About China Macro Group:
CMG is a specialized European management consulting and research firm providing original, fact-based and calibrated China research and analysis to advise European corporate, investment and public sectors on strategic decision-making related to China and the Chinese market. CMG specializes in addressing management challenges shaped by developments in China’s political economy, international trade and market environment, ranging from strategy, footprint/organizational design, HQ-subsidiary interactions to strategic partnerships and negotiations.
In their research and analytical methodology, CMG integrates the four disciplines of: business/strategic management, public policy, macro-economy and international affairs.
Click here to learn more about CMG, and screen through their insightful primers and analyses (members of DCBF can read them for free).
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"The Long View" - 10-Year Outlook Imagining CN in 2035 as the Next Key Modernization Milestone
Date: June 20, 2025
Event: Supported Webinar
In the third session of the 2025 webinar series “Staying in Dialogue with China”, which is dedicated to the theme of China's next and upcoming 15th Five-Year-Plan (2026-2030), Markus Herrmann Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Director, China Macro Group (CMG) will be talking to Zhang Dandan, Professor in Economics and Deputy Dean of the National School of Development (NSD) of Peking University.
Members of DCBF can register for free - Click here to read more and sign up!
About the Webinar
Amid China’s continuously difficult post-Covid economic recovery as well as persisting structural issues such as the real estate market, industrial overcapacity and local government debt, this webinar deliberately takes the “long view”, providing a 10-year outlook and imagining China in 2035 as the next key modernization milestone – the mid-term goal announced as part of the 14th Five-Year-Plan in March 2021. This has been only the second time a regular Five-Year-Plan takes a planning horizon beyond the regular five years, the previous one being the 6th Five-Year-Plan (1981-1985) which proposed goals for the four ensuing Five-Year-Plan periods until the end of the century with the goal of quadrupling China’s GDP.
By 2035, and by accomplishing the goals of the 15th and 16th Five-Year-Plans, Chinese planners seek to achieve the “basic socialist modernization” (基本实现社会主义现代化), which in its core wants to – again – double China’s GDP, over the period from 2020 to 2035, which assumes a sustained year-on-year average real growth of 4.7% GDP, plus increase the share of China’s middle income group from 35% to 50% as some of its most important policy goals.
The following key questions will be explored:
- How to understand current economic difficulties when seen from a long-term planning and structural reform perspective?
- In hindsight, how «radical» were the decisions adopted by the CCP’s “Third Plenum” in July 2024?
- Which parts of the 14th Five-Year-Plan have been most effectively implemented when measured against the respective ambition level?
- How should foreign business take into account a policy planning goal for 2035?
- What are the key “make-or-break” reforms to achieve the 2035 goal such as China’s demographic transition?
- NDRC stresses that “changes unseen in a century” must be duly considered in long-term planning, what long-term scenario(s) do planners use?
- What are key policy shifts and changes to be expected by the upcoming 15th Five-Year-Plan?
- Referring to the 20 KPIs of the 14th Five-Year-Plan, what new set of KPIs will be the “right” ones to help guide development up to 2035?
- What role do governmental research versus societal inputs (e.g. the citizen issue collection, 政民互动问题征集) play in long-term planning?
Take the opportunity to listen in and ask your questions to Vice-Dean Zhang Dandan.
About the Webinar Series:
This webinar is part of the webinar series 'Staying in Dialogue with China'. The series will bring you six webinars with distinguished China-based experts, concentrated between February and December 2025.
'Staying in dialogue with China' is organized and hosted by China Macro Group (CMG), with Caixin Global as Anchor Partner, in cooperation with China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Chinaforum Bayern, Swissmem, Danish-Chinese Business Forum (DCBF), SwissCham China, the Stein am Rhein Symposium (stars), Sweden-China Trade Council (SCTC), Norwegian Business Association China (NBA China), Danish Chamber of Commerce in China (DCCC), EuroCham Singapore and China-Britain Business Council.
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Managing Financial, Operational and Digital Communications
Date: June 17, 2025
Event: Conference
Danish-Chinese Business Forum invites you to the opening event of a high-level seminar series on risk management.
About the event
As Danish companies evaluate the risks of operating in - and staying out of - China, this hybrid seminar will address critical aspects of financial, operational, and digital risk.
Attend in person in Aarhus, or join us online, to explore how communication structures can be strengthened to improve risk management, data security and corporate accountability.
The event is relevant for all professionals across sectors navigating organizational or multinational risk exposure in China.
Our speakers will present practical insights backed by experience and actionable case studies illustrating how inadequate operational systems and informal communication can result in data loss and ownership issues, and how supply chain audits can lead to improved compliance, alongside other examples.
For the first event at Arla Foods in Aarhus, we are pleased to welcome three expert speakers with firsthand experience in managing risk in China:
- Yael Farjun, China Deputy GM, PTL Group - “Mitigating Human and Financial Risks for Multinationals Operating in China.”
- Søren B. Jensen, Managing Director, Mictory Ltd. - “Visualizing Operational Risk for Strategic Clarity.”
- Niels Christian Flintholm, Partner, Leaf Digital - “De-risking Digital Communication.”
For more information and registration, please send us a message at info@dcbf.dk
About the Risk Seminar Series
Since COVID-19, companies have become increasingly aware of the organizational risks involved in operating globally, particularly in China. To support multinational companies in addressing these challenges, DCBF will host three targeted events in 2025, structured to progress from the micro to the macro level.
