FCCC In-person Event: Looking back on three decades of doing business in China by Jörg Wuttke

Jörg Wuttke has been one of the most outspoken voices of the European business community in China. When it came to deficits and shortcomings of the investment climate in China he seldom minced his words. “Level playing field” and “equal treatment of local and foreign companies” became some of his most widely used terms. During the pandemic Jörg became one of the fiercest critics of the Zero-Covid policy. And his words rarely fell on deaf ears with the Chinese authorities. Government officials would listen to him and always treated him with respect. In his position Jörg also became an important mediator between the European business community in China and EU institutions in Brussels. After three stints as President of the EUCCC Jörg will step down on May 24th. After three decades of living and working in China he will leave the country in 2024.

During the talk Jörg will look back on highs as well as on lows during his stay in China and will give his personal outlook for the economy of China, where business for foreign companies has seldom been as difficult as it is today.

About the speaker: Jörg Wuttke is President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, an office he has held already from 2007 to 2010, and 2014 to 2017 and again since May 2019. From 2001 to 2004 Mr. Wuttke was the Chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce in China. Since its establishment in 2013, Mr. Wuttke is member of the Advisory Board of Germany’s foremost Think Tank on China, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), in Berlin. He lived in China for more than 30 years.