Brussels, 9-10 September: EU's Foreign Ministers will discuss on their informal Gymnich Meeting Europe's strategic partnership taking China as an example. The discussion will take place some days after Catherine Ashton's visit to China.

From 28 to 30 June 2010 the conference "After the Failure of Copenhagen: Ways to Sustainability and Low Carbon Economies in Europe and in China. Civil Society Perspectives" took place in Bonn. It was organized for the EU-China: Civil Society Network by...

Around 60 workshops under 9 themes are involved in this biennial of China-Europa Forum. Among them, 12 workshops have already been held in 2009; while the others will be conducted on July 8th to 11th, 2010, respectively in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu,...

The report "Global Concerns - Global Cooperation", edited by Nora Sausmikat in March this year, is now available in Chinese. In June 2009 40 representatives of European and Chinese NGOs had met in Guangzhou and Hainan to exchange their work...

Alex Wang reports about a recent seminar in Weihai, where more than 50 government officials and scholars from around China discussed the implementation of China’s Open Government Information Regulations and Open Environmental Information Measures,...

Twelve workers have committed suicide as of May 27th at the production facilities of Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiwan-owned enterprise based in Shenzhen. Citizens of the world and members of non-governmental organizations implore workers of Foxconn to...

In September 2009 the international conference "Social Developments in China and Europe: an exchange of experiences and perspectives of Civil Society Organisations" was held in Vienna, hosted by Südwind Agentur and weltumspannend arbeiten for the...

The central government has tightened restrictions on overseas donations to independent domestic non-governmental organisations in a move that experts and NGO workers fear will threaten the survival of the mainland's fledgling civil society. Under...

If you ask a factory worker or a waitress in Dongguan if they have had a pay raise recently, they will either stare at you blankly or just burst out laughing. For all the hype in the Chinese and international media about 30 percent wage inflation...

On February 25 the issue 1/2010 of the English newsletter "EU-China-News" was released dealing with climate change and human rights. Subscription to the newsletter is possible here.

Civil society dialogue has become a trendy buzzword also in EU policy toward China. And while only two years ago the EU Parliament’s critical inquiry about the lack of consultation with Chinese NGOs was countered by pointing out that there was no...

Since the last update of my website www.frankhaugwitz.info “China Renewable Energy Information” early 2009 I just recently have added plenty of documents covering all sections. In the meantime since its launch in late 2006, I have added more than 1450...

Greenlaw is a service of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) China Project and the China Environmental Culture Promotion Association (CECPA). The website also provides further links on legal aspects and political evaluations of national and...

This brief is a new feature of China Green News, a site in operation since 2009. It's mission is to inject Chinese perspectives into the international debate on the country’s environmental challenges. China Green News is an initiative of the Chinese...

The European Association for Chinese Studies represents more than 800 scholars from 36 countries, mostly in Europe, who dedicate their efforts to the understanding and promotion of China. In this Open Letter they ask for the release of Liu Xiaobo, who on...