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Insights - Screen through CMG’s diverse content, ranging from primers, analyses, webinar and video recordings as well as our public external engagements
Publications
“Fourth Plenum”: towards more assertively shaping strategic conditions externally to better focus on “Chinese-style modernization” internally
November 2025 | Our newest CMG Primer – titled: “Fourth Plenum”: towards more assertively shaping strategic conditions externally to better focus on “Chinese-style modernization” internally – analyzes process and key outcomes of the recently held “Fourth Plenum”, the fourth gathering of the CCP’s 20 th Central Committee, taking place one year later than usual “Fourth Plenum” and thus exceptionally dealing with the agenda that is customarily foreseen for “Fifth Plenum”, nam
2025 "Two Sessions" - implementing reforms as follow-through from the "Third Plenum" in the face of insufficient domestic demand and Trump 2.0
“Let‘s listen to market voices, collaboratively promote policy implementation and guide social expectations in a positive way ” ...
Understanding China's economy into 2025: Publication & read-out webinar
Understanding China's economy into 2025 - evolved development strategy, reform priorities and short-term macroeconomic management...
Caixin Summit 2024 - CMG's analytical digest: slide deck and read-out webinar recording
Understanding key debates in Beijing on the most pressing issues facing China’s economy An analytical digest of what we heard at the...
Deep-dive analyses of key policy events and developments with relevance for foreign business in China
CMG’s own as well as selected experts’ insights on policy-relevant issues for foreign business in China
Analyses
CMG analysis: beyond preferential policy, Free Trade Zones again at forefront of China’s next chapter of opening-up
July 2025 | While global trade faces headwinds from rising protectionism and trade conditionalities, Beijing continues to follow-through...
NEW PUBLICATION: CMG’s external evaluation of the Swiss government’s China Strategy (March 2021), mandated by the Swiss MFA
Produced by CMG on behalf of the State Secretariat of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) Guy Parmelin, Head of the...
Prof. ZHA Daojiong: " Trade and investment will continue to be a priority for China's engagement with Europe"
October 2024 | Expert background: Prof. ZHA Daojiong – expert on China’s foreign relations Zha Daojiong is Professor of International...
CMG Horizon Scan for WEF: ‘Corporate strategy making in China – six building blocks’
June 2024 | In times of a rapidly evolving strategic business context in China, CMG’s cross-cultural vantage point and our experience in...
CMG insights provided for external actors
CMG Webinar Transcripts and Recordings
"Staying in Dialogue with China - "Recording of Webinar #4 with Yu Tiejun on "Changes Unseen in a Century”
October 2025 | In our fourth webinar of the 2025 edition of the “Staying in Dialogue with China” webinar series which is this time dedicated to the theme of China’s next and upcoming 15th Five-Year-Plan (2026-2030), we talked to YU Tiejun, President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS) and Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS) at Peking University (PKU). For the fourth webinar, Markus Herrmann, Co-Founder & Managing Director of CM
Flash Webinar: The "Taiwan issue" under Trump 2.0 - Recording of Webinar with WU Yongping (July 10, 2025)
July 2025 | On Thursday, July 10th 2025, China Macro Group (CMG) hosted a flash webinar to discuss the "Taiwan issue" under Trump 2.0. ...
"Staying in Dialogue with China - "Recording of Webinar #3 with XIE Danxia on "The long view - 10-year outlook imagining China in 2035 as the next key modernization milestone" (20th June 2025)
June 2025 | In our third webinar of the 2025 edition of the “Staying in Dialogue with China” webinar series which is this time dedicated...
"Staying in Dialogue with China" – Recording of Webinar #2 with ZHU Guangyao on "Four years into 14th Five-Year-Plan - taking stock of its execution after the NPC 2025" (23rd April 2025)
April 2025 | In our second webinar of the 2025 edition of the “Staying in Dialogue with China” webinar series which is this time...
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