Government affairs and strategic consultingYuan Associates was founded in February 2004 and is based in Beijing, China. Yuan Associates is a firm equipped with both global vision and local action.  With a staff of twenty professionals, Yuan Associates has worked with more than 120 multinational enterprises and organizations over the past fourteen years. Yuan Associates has a breadth of experience in the government affairs sector due to years’ practice working with our clients cross industries.  Yuan Associates provide blanket services to our clients, which are mainly North American and European multinational corporations, industry associations and foreign government agencies, covering strategy development, government relations, policy research and monitoring, advocacy, trade issue consultancy, market access, corporate reputation management, sounding board and ongoing consultancy, M&A and greenfield investment support, senior executive China visit support, local capacity building, and issue/crisis management. In the agriculture/ food and manufacturing sectors, where Yuan Associates has particularly strong experience, we have helped our clients to facilitate the market access, import inspections and quarantine, trade promotion, regulatory advocacy as well as market operations and compliance. Thanks to our government affairs services to clients, Yuan Associates has developed a strong government relations network at both the central and local levels, as well as analyze the rapid changes and non-transparent public policies to better navigate in the Chinese market.