The US-China Business Council (USCBC)’s

The Chinese New Year ushered in a number of personnel changes at the US-China Business Council’s (USCBC) China offices.

Jake Laband, manager of business advisory services since March 2014, was promoted to deputy director of USCBC’s Beijing office. He will lead the business advisory services function and oversee member company requests. He will report to USCBC Vice President Jake Parker.

Though China’s slowing growth impacts US company operations, economic restructuring is offering new opportunities to American companies, said a group of US-China Business Council (USCBC) executives during a February 28 roundtable discussion with Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in Beijing. Lew was in China for the G20 finance ministers’ meeting in Shanghai on February 26 and 27.

The year ahead will be a decisive one for China’s economy, as policymakers must decide between a long-term rebalancing strategy or measures that produce short-term economic gains, economist Dan Rosen said January 28 at the US-China Business Council’s (USCBC) annual Forecast Conference.