Consumer Series: China’s Active Retirees

webinar| 31 March 2026

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With the Consumer Webinar Series, the EU SME Centre and European Union Chamber of Commerce in China invite you to look into four major groups of urban consumers in China. 

For the first event of the series, organised in March 2026, we focused on urban active retirees, a 120-million-strong group born between 1950 and 1964. In this video, Professor Dou Wenyu, Academic Dean for China at SKEMA Business School, presents the demographics, main spending categories, preferred purchasing platforms of this group, with targeted marketing advice for European SMEs.

More on the Consumer Webinar Series

The second webinar of the series will explore the purchasing habits of Chinese consumers born in the 1970s. Learn more about the 70后 / Gen X cohort on 29 April 2026, sign up here!

About the speaker
Dou Wenyu
Academic Dean, SKEMA China

Professor Wenyu Dou is Academic Dean, SKEMA China, Chair Professor of Digital Marketing & Chinese Social Media; and Vice Dean, International Joint Audit Institute, SKEMA x Nanjing Audit Univ (NAU). He also serves as Wenlan Chair Professor with Zhongnan Univ. of Economics and Law. Before joining SKEMA China in July 2021, Prof. Dou was Associate Dean for Graduate Programs & EMBA Director, College of Business, City Univ. of Hong Kong (CityU).

An internationally renowned advertising scholar, Prof. Dou has published extensively in prestigious academic journals such as MIS QuarterlyJournal of International Business StudiesJournal of AdvertisingJournal of Advertising ResearchJournal of Interactive Marketing, among others. He served as Associate Editor for Journal of Interactive Advertising and sits in editorial board of Journal of Advertising. He is also Academic Director for New Media Marketing Committee, Chinese Marketing Association of Universities (CMAU). He is Conference Founder and successfully organized Annual New Media Marketing Conference with CMAU for three years. In 2021, Prof. Dou published the first scholarly book on Content Marketing with Beijing University Press.

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