Fall is peak season for networking events in Beijing – highlights for the next week include:
Sat, Nov 2
8pm-late
RMB 500-1,000 (varies by venue. All proceeds go to charity – see below)
Celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, Chi Fan for Charity is the Beijing-bred annual charity event that brings diners and restaurants together for an evening of altruistic eating. Chi Fan for Charity will feature dinners of at least three courses offered by more than 50 of Beijing’s top restaurants. One hundred percent of the proceeds go to two selected charities.
This year’s beneficiaries are Educating Girls of Rural China, which sponsors university educations for rural women and operates under the philosophy that educating women is the key to bringing positive changes to a family, a village and a society, as well as Little Flower Projects which has led grassroots, small-scale, effective, and cost-efficient projects throughout China for the benefit of countless children in need, particularly abandoned infants and orphaned children.
Visit the website here to see which restaurants have donated tables. Venues include Modo, Temple Restaurant Beijing, Gungho Pizza, The Cut, and Maison Boulud among many others.
Ticket includes dinner, wine and entrance to the after-party at Hatsune in Sanlitun.
10am-noon
Capital M, the Australian Chamber of Commerce, the American Chamber of Commerce and 85 Broads will host the final monthly mentoring walk for 2013. These walks have been a valuable opportunity for established women to share their experiences and advice with women who are at critical stages of shaping their careers and lives. Like the kick off walk in March 2013, the November Walk will start at Capital M. Mentors and mentees will then disperse for short walks in the neighbourhood.
For their wrap-up walk, each participant will be asked to make a RMB 100 donation to the Village People Project: http://www.villagepeopleproject.org/
Refreshments will be provided by Capital M. Sign up via this link.
Thursday, Nov 7
Premium Finance Group Talk: Property & Pollution
6.30-8.30pm
From Beijing to Berlin, the tale of two cities
PFG Beijing hosts a talk about the effect pollution has on Beijing and compares its situation with Berlin, a city that provides clean living and great investment opportunities.
Guest speakers include Eco Architect Dr Tony Leung of Inkmason International and Marketing Director Elan Frenkel of Inspiration Group.
Click here for more details: http://premiumfinance-group.com/2013/10/29/property-and-pollution/
To reserve a place please email the full names of all your guests to william.frisby@premiumfinance-group.com
An American scuba diver. A lost British submarine. A secret Chinese history.
Poseidon: China’s Secret Salvage of Britain’s Lost Submarine is the story of a British submarine that sank off the coast of China in 1931, and the American explorer who spent six years looking for it. Beijing-based scuba instructor and the Beijinger’s Managing Editor Steven Schwankert was looking for interesting wrecks to dive in northern China when he found HMS Poseidon on a list of unexplored dive sites. His private obsession with bringing wreck diving to China became a public and personally high-risk mission to uncover a secret history of political intrigue that took him half way across the world in search of evidence. His search for the submarine revealed a story that was far more complicated than he had first expected, challenging official accounts of the escape, and uncovering the truth behind the forgotten wreck.
