[Event] CEIBS Europe Forum - Paris

The China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) organised their third Europe Forum in Paris earlier this month, bringing together government officials, corporate leaders, and academics to discuss China’s growing outbound investment and new opportunities for French business in China. 

The programme included keynote speeches and panel discussions featuring Jean-Claude Raffarin, the former prime minister of France; Gao Yuanyuan, counsellor of economic and commercial affairs for the Chinese Embassy in France; Dr Yang Jiemian, president emeritus of the Shanghai Institutes of International Studies (SIIS); Professor Li Mingjun, president and professor of management at CEIBS, and Frédéric Vernhes, first vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce (CCI) Paris Ile-de-France.

“This forum provides us with a good opportunity to discuss a win-win relationship between China and France under the “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative,” Gao said in her opening remarks. “Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France 53 years ago, the friendship between these two countries continues to deepen.” 

Yang further explained the framework and broad objectives of OBOR, noting the main focus is on economics, but that it entails much else too.