BEIJING, June 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), a leading business school in China, hosted its 10th Economic Symposium at its new Beijing campus. The forum brought together ambassadors, policymakers, business leaders, and scholars to examine China's economic outlook and its evolving relationships with ASEAN and Europe amid geopolitical realignment, supply-chain restructuring and rapid technological change.
The CKGSB Economic Symposium is one of the school's flagship policy and business forums. This year, the symposium drew more than 600 registrations — many representing the China leadership of Fortune 500 companies including Abbott, Merck, Siemens, Rolls-Royce and Samsung. Against a backdrop of profound transformation in the global economy, China and ASEAN have been each other's largest trading partners for years, with bilateral trade exceeding USD 1 trillion in 2025, while China and the European Union continue to trade more than €700 billion in goods each year, underscoring the enduring importance of both relationships.
