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EU SME Centre helps European Businesses to get ready to the Chinese Market

The EU SME Centre is a European Union initiative that provides a comprehensive range of hands-on support services to European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), getting them ready to do business in China.

The EU SME Centre’s Services:

The EUSME team provides advice and support in four areas – business development, law, standards and conformity and human resources. Collaborating with external experts worldwide, the Centre converts valuable knowledge and experience into practical business tools and services easily accessible online. From first-line advice to in-depth technical solutions, the EU SME Centre offers services through:

Knowledge Centre: Containing over 100 comprehensive market reports, guidelines and case studies are available to download from the Centre’s website.

Advice Centre: Provide information and advice relating to business development, market access, legal issues and HR. The Business Development Team helps to raise awareness on the key sector opportunities for the European SMEs in China and potential challenges to watch out for. The Business Development Team helps SMEs to better understand the commercial environment across various industries, providing tools to develop and market their business as well as assisting them to locate service providers. The Legal Affairs Team – the in-house lawyers provide first line information on the legal environment on China. The Legal Affairs team offers confidential advice on legal issues with a focus on contract, taxation, preliminary due diligence, entry modes, payment conditions, labour, dispute settlement and access to finance. One of the key challenges for business in China is human resources. The Human Resources Team provides advice on hiring and retaining staff, salary levels and available training services relevant for SMEs in China. The Standards Team helps SMEs to navigate China’s standards and conformity assessment procedures. The team is here to help smooth the way for SMEs to get their goods, services and technology through Chinese customs and onto the market.

Training Centre: Offering training programmes both face-to-face and online to plug the knowledge and skills gaps of SMEs entering the China market.

SME Advocacy Platform: Providing a coherent, consistent and consolidated voice for European small businesses.

Hot-Desking & Meeting Rooms: Free, temporary office space in the EU SME Centre in central Beijing to explore local business opportunities.

Implementing Partners

The EU SME Centre is managed by six implementing partners who through their knowledge and experience of the China market guide the strategic development and management of the Centre.

Through their member networks and understanding of the local market, the implementing partners bring the Centre’s complementary services to a larger number of European SMEs across Europe and China.

The six implementing partners are:

China-Britain Business Council

Benelux Chamber of Commerce

China-Italy Chamber of Commerce

French Chamber of Commerce in China

EUROCHAMBRES

European Union Chamber of Commerce in China

Network Partner of EEN

The EU SME Centre has joined the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) as an official network partner, providing European SMEs with further business support in terms of technology innovation and internationalization to China since year 2015.

In its role as EEN Partner in China, the Centre will be organizing brokerage events to bring European and Chinese companies together, facilitating partnership agreements, and offering advice to European SMEs looking to do business in China.

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Background

SMEs account for 99.7% of all businesses in the EU and are acknowledged as a key source of growth, entrepreneurship, innovation, competitiveness and employment. At the same time, SMEs are typically less resourced than larger firms to address the complexities and risks of entering global markets.

For China, the European Union has allocated EUR five million to setting up the EU SME Centre following a feasibility study that was carried out and confirmed that “EU SMEs would benefit from practical, hands-on business support solutions that will enable them to develop their international business in the Chinese market.” The establishment of the Centre promotes EU-China trade and investment relations.

The EU SME Centre helps facilitate market access for European SMEs. Specifically, the Centre assists SMEs to establish, develop and maintain commercial activities in the Chinese market – through export and investment – particularly at the crucial early stages of their market penetration strategy.

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For more information and details regarding “EU SME Centre”, please visit the website at: http://www.eusmecentre.org.cn/
For more tips on investing and trading in the EU, please contact the Business Cooperation Centre of Enterprise Europe Network Central China – Macao Office (EENCC Macao Office) at Tel: 2871 3338, 2872 7882/Fax: 2871 3339/
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