CONFERENCES & MEETINGS >> IN CHINA

ChinaBio Partnering Forum, Beijing

It is the premier life science partnering event in China. The event will attract biotech and pharma leaders from around the world along with hundreds of China-based developers of new technologies for two days of productive partnering.

Venue: Shangri-la Hotel

Date: May 11-12

Contact: [email protected]

Conference Series of Cervantes Institute

At this new conference series at Instituto Cervantes, experts from Spain and China will talk about subjects like financial systems, renewable energies and railways. They will analyze Spain and China's industrial cooperation and special relationship.

Venue: Beijing Cervantes Institute

Date: from March 15

Contact: [email protected]

IT Showcase, Shanghai

This event is dedicated to becoming the most professional IT summit in China with the largest scale and most comprehensive range of topics to help find personalized solutions for every type of company.

Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel

Date: May 25-26

Contact: [email protected]

CONFERENCES & MEETINGS >> IN EUROPE

UK/China Business Exchange, Gaydon

This major business-networking event is held to enable UK companies to meet key business and technical contacts in major Chinese aerospace and automotive companies and organizations. Likely Chinese attendees will include the Chinese Association of Automotive Manufacturers, Chang'an, Dongfeng and First Automotive Works (FAW).

Venue: Heritage Motor Centre Motor Museum

Date: May 10

Contact: [email protected]

Scotland China Clinics, Scotland

Scottish Development International (SDI) and China-Britain Business Council (CBBC) are running a series of China Business clinics across major Scottish regions. People will have the opportunity to meet key people from CBBC's Scotland office and colleagues from SDI on all China matters.

Date: Till Dec 8

Custom Event, Brussels

After many years of doing business with China, some companies may have come across some customs issues with Belgian and/or Chinese customs while exporting goods to China or importing goods into Belgium. This event offers the latest information on Belgian-Chinese customs issues.

Venue: Best Western Premier HNA Sodehotel

Date: May 26

Contact: [email protected]

CULTURE >> IN CHINA

Caochangdi PhotoSpring, Beijing

The Caochangdi PhotoSpring is working in a three-year partnership with Les Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival. During the festivities, each of the partnering Caochangdi galleries will host different activities, such as exhibition openings, lectures, evening concerts, documentary film screenings, and slideshows.

Venue: Caochangdi Art Zone

Date: Till -May 1

Contact: [email protected]

Spanish Cinema: The Essentials, Beijing

This films series shows some of the best films produced in Spain during the past 15 years. The movies are essential in understanding the contemporary diversity of Spanish cinema and its evolution.

Venue: Beijing Cervantes Institute

Date: Till June 18

Contact: [email protected]

Helsinki Men's Choir, Beijing

As one of the best choirs in Finland, the Helsinki Men's Choir has the longest history in the world and had won many international prizes. One concert of this choir in Finland can attract more than 12,000 audiences. During its China tour, the choir will perform new adaptations of Chinese folk songs.

Venue: Poly Theater

Date: May 5

Contact: [email protected]

Peter Ritzen Concert, Beijing

Belgium musician Peter Ritzen is a pianist, composer and conductor and has been regarded as "Liszt Junior" since he was a teenager. His music is a representative of the golden age of European music of the 19th century.

Venue: Poly Theater

Date: May 6

Contact: [email protected]

Exhibition: Recycling Art, Beijing

This creation from Rafael Arroy is one of the artworks from International Recycling Art Festival, which is on display in Beijing. Provided to China Daily

The best artworks of the International Recycling Art Festival of Catalonia are introduced for the first time in China. Recycling Art is a fresh and imaginative contemporary art exhibition that underlines the need for new consumption habits and questions the final fate of everyday products and their possible reuse once their lifetime comes to an early end.

Venue: Beijing Cervantes Institute

Date: May 6- June 30

Contact: [email protected]

CULTURE >> IN EUROPE

Shanghai-Paris Painting Exhibition, Paris

Placed side by side in the cultural landscape of the 20th century, Shanghai and Paris assume the role of representatives for the Eastern culture and Western culture for the past 100 years. Composed of three parts "From Shanghai", "Plural Charms" and "Force of Globalization", and through 40 works, the exhibition presents mostly pictorial compositions in ink, oil and watercolor.

Venue: Chinese Cultural Center

Date: Till May 16

Contact: [email protected]

Exhibition of Miao ethnic group in Guizhou

The Miao is one of the 56 ethnic groups in China. In the 2000 census, there were 8.94 million Miao people in the country, and half of them live in Guizhou province. Miao costume is meaningful and decorative motifs are of great beauty and each creation is unique and of infinite variety. This exhibition shows the different styles of the Miao costumes.

Venue: Chinese Cultural Center

Date: Till May 8

Contact: [email protected]

2011 Spring Lecture Series

The Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies launches the lecture series, featuring 10 renowned experts, to contribute to a more qualitative debate about China's rise and its impact on Europe.

Venue: Vrije University

Date: Till May 18

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