The European Chamber had its great Networking Event in the Zeta Bar, in the renovated Beijing Hilton. The new bar is real cool and could become a competitor for the popular Centro Bar in the Kerry Center Hotel. Nice bar and, judge for yourself, cool waiters too.
The event was a big success – 200 members filled the ground floor of the bar to full capacity. Very international crowd too – difficult to judge which was the mostly spoken second language after English – French, Spanish, and ???

As a matter of fact, the EUCCC is becoming huge. As it should, the EU is now the top trading partner for China, accounting for 15.5% of total foreign trade. Figures for 2006:
China’s trade surplus: US$ 91.7 billion, up 31% (from US$ 70.1 billion); exports US$ 182 billion up 27% – imports US$ 90.3 billion up 23%.