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The recent series of global financial crises have debilitated the West and accentuated China’s ascension to a dominant position in the global economy. However, observers have criticized China’s phenomenal economic expansion as inherently unsustainable pointing to underlying risks and instabilities including; a real estate bubble, the serious implications of an ageing population, and pressing environmental concerns. For anyone seeking to understand the complex nature of China’s growth, as well as understand and evaluate such criticisms, it is important to undertake a careful survey of the issues and associated risks.
Set against a backdrop of domestic tension and international economic turmoil, the 2012 China Development Forum is an intellectual platform through which we engage with the key issues in China’s future. The Forum will examine the multi-faceted nature of China’s ongoing reform including areas consistently overlooked by mainstream Western media. These issues include; the advantages and disadvantages of progressively soaring city skylines from the perspective of sustainable urban planning, Weibo reshaping the Chinese ethos, and the question of whether China’s entrepreneurs are good followers of Schumpeterian economics. Further, the 2012 Forum features analyses on ameliorating China’s gaping income inequality, overhauling its financial markets, and addressing unfavourable demographic changes.
The Forum discussions are led by high-calibre authoritative academics and practitioners from renowned institutions worldwide, many of whom work closely with top-ranking Chinese policymakers and institutions. Not only are they the closest observers of China’s ascension, they bring their personal experience and perceptive insights to the topics under discussion.
Join the forum, and our quest to seek a comprehensive and enlightened perspective regarding China’s development. We look forward to seeing and engaging with you at the LSE SU China Development Forum 2012.
Preliminary Programme, subject to changes and revisions in due course.
| 0900-0930 | Opening: Welcome Speech | |
| 0930-1030 | Prioritising China’s Transformation Agenda
Stephen Perry, Chariman of the 48 Group Club
Xiaonian XU(许小年), Professor of Economics and Finance, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
Lan XUE(薛澜), Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Sarah Cook, Director of United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Weiying ZHANG(张维迎), Professor of Peking University
Danny Quah, Professor of Economics, LSE |
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| 1030-1100 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100-1200 | Adapting China’s Financial Market to New Paradigms for Growth
Chair Danny Quah,Professor of Economics, LSE
Xiaonian XU(许小年), Professor of Economics and Finance, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
Richard Urwin, Managing Director, Head of investments within BlackRock’s Fiduciary Mandate Investment team
John-Paul Smith, Global Emerging Market Equity Strategist, Deutsche Bank |
Ameliorating China’s Gaping Urban-rural Inequality
Chair Sarah Cook, Director of United Nations Research Institute foe Social Development
Athar Hussain , Director of LSE Asia Research Centre, LSE
Martin Whyte , Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Jonathan Hursh, Founder and Executive Director, Compassion for Migrant Children (NGO)
Yang DU (都阳), Chief of Division of Labor and Human Capital, Institute of Population and Labor Economics, CASS |*respondent |
| 1200-1210 | Short Break | |
| 1210-1310 | Strategising Sustainable Growth for China’s Cities
Chair Jonathan Woetzel, Director, McKinsey & Company, Shanghai
Ricky Burdett, Director of LSE Cities, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University
Tingwei ZHANG (张庭伟), Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Confronting Challenges of China’s Demographic Shift
Chair Sarah Cook, Director of United Nations Research Institute foe Social Development
Athar Hussain, Director of LSE Asia Research Centre, LSE
Yang DU (都阳), Chief of Division of Labor and Human Capital, Institute of Population and Labor Economics, CASS |
| 1310-1400 | Lunch | |
| 1400-1510 | Unleashing entrepreneurship and innovation in China’s Business
Chair Stephen Perry, Chairman of the 48 Group
Jeff CAO, Head of Asia Pacific at London & Partners
Jonathan Woetzel, Director, McKinsey & Company, Shanghai
Lan XUE(薛澜), Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Xiaoping XU (徐小平), Co-founder of New Oriental Group, is now the founder of ZhenFund
Weiying ZHANG(张维迎), Professor of Peking University |
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| 1510-1540 | Coffee Break | |
| 1540-1650 | Harnessing Rising Social Power of New Media
Chair Bingchun MENG, Lecturer in the department of Media and Communications, LSE
Xianghui (Issac) MAO(毛向辉), Director of the Social Brain Foundation
Qian GANG(钱钢), Co-Director of the China Media Project at The University of Hong Kong
Fei DENG(邓飞),Director of Journalist Department at Phoenix Weekly, Co-founder of the project Free Lunch for Children |
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| 1650-1700 | Short break | |
| 1700-1800 | Rethinking China’s youth empowerment and higher education reform
Chair Fei QIN, Lecturer in Management, LSE
Kato Yoshikazu (加藤嘉一): Columnist, Financial Times Chinese Version
Xiaoping XU (徐小平), Co-founder of New Oriental Group, is now the founder of ZhenFund |
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| 1800-1810 | Closing | |
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Ricky Burdett Director of LSE Cities, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age programme. He is a Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. He was Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics .He was architectural adviser to the Mayor of London from 2001 to 2006. In addition to leading innovative research on global cities, Burdett has curated numerous exhibitions including ‘Global Cities’ at Tate Modern. He is architectural adviser to the cities of Genova and Parma, and a member of the Milan Expo 2015 steering committee. He is a Council member of the Royal College of Art and sits on the Mayor of London’s Promote London Board. |
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Jeff Cao Head of Asia Pacific at London & Partners Jeff Cao is Head of Asia Pacific at London & Partners, the official promotional agency for London, attracting and delivering value to businesses, students and visitors. Based in London, Jeff is responsible for successful running of London & Partners’ operation in Asia Pacific.An established professional with twenty years of experience, Jeff has a strong track record of advising world-class corporate clients on market entry strategies, competitive positioning, influence mapping and relationship building, and deal facilitation. He has cross sector experience, particularly in retail, pharmaceutical, FMCG, telecom and financial services. Before joining London & Partners (formerly Think London), Jeff was a strategy consultant with a London-based management consultancy. Prior to that, he was an investment banker based in China. Jeff, who speaks Mandarin, received an MBA in Finance, a B.Eng. in Computer Science and a Diploma in Law. |
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Sarah Cook Director of the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Sarah Cook is the Director of the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). She was previously a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK, and a Programme Officer for Governance and Public Policy for the Ford Foundation in Beijing. Sarah’s research focuses on issues of social policy and protection, employment and gender, with a particular focus on the social impacts of economic reform in China. Sarah received her PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University, an M.Sc. in Social Policy in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics and a BA in Modern History from Oxford University. |
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Fei Deng (邓飞) Editing Committee Member, Director of Journalist Department, Phoenix Weekly magazine (凤凰周刊) Deng Fei is the Editing Committee Member, Director of Journalist Department, Phoenix Weekly magazine. Initiator of the anti-trafficking movement using micro-blog, and initiator and promoter of the movement. “Free Lunch to Village Children. Recently, Deng Fei has devoted to explore the new charity model in the Internet era and the development of China’s philanthropy. |
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Jonathan Hursh Founder of Compassion for Migrant Children (打工子弟爱心会) Jonathan Hursh is from the United States and has resided in mainland China since 2003. Jonathan launched Compassion for Migrant Children (www.cmc-china.org) which benefits children of migrant workers and their communities in China through social and educational programs. CMC, with over 35 staff and 4000 volunteers, regularly serves over 2000 migrants through their community centers. The Communities of Promise Network was subsequently developed to help others open community centers in migrant slums across Asia. In 2008, Jonathan also launched a sister organization, the Migrant Resource Network (www.mrn-china.org) to assist in building collaborative movement among organizations serving migrants in China. In 2011, CMC partnered with a foundation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to launch a fund in China to support its work with the migrant communities. |
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Athar Hussain Director of the Asia Research Centre at the LSE Athar Hussain has been at the LSE since 1987 and he is now Director of the Asia Research Centre at the LSE. He is proficient in Chinese. He has held visiting appointments at MIT, Harvard University, Zhongshan University (Guangzhou), Stockholm University (Sweden), Namur University (Belgium) and the International Monetary Fund. He has served as consultant on a wide range of economic and social policy issues to numerous organizations, including the World Bank, UNDP, ILO, Asian Development Bank and the Department of International Development of the UK. He has worked on various World Bank projects in China including those on ‘Reform of State Enterprises’, ‘Reorganisation of the Electricity Industry’, ‘Western Region Development’ and ‘Regeneration of the North-East’. He was the team leader for an Asian Development Bank study on ‘Urban Poverty in China’. |
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Xianghui MAO (毛向辉) Director of Social Brain Foundation and board member to Tor Project Isaac Mao is a philosopher coined the term Sharism, a new philosophy explains a fully connecting world which transforms society and human being. He is also social entrepreneur, blogger, software architect and researcher in learning and social technology. He is now director of Social Brain Foundation, board member to Tor Project, advisory to Global Voices Online and board member to several web 2.0 and new media businesses. He is also co-curator to Ars Electronica symposium. Isaac is also a global bridge in blogosphere. He is regular speaker/keynote to World Economy Forum, Web 2.0 Summit, Wikimania, Chinese Internet Research Conference, and other global internet cultural events. As a trained software engineer, he has a long history leads developing both business and consumer software. |
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Stephen Perry Chairman of the 48 Group Club Stephen Perry is the Chairman of the 48 Group Club, the oldest Western trading partners with the People’s Republic of China. In 1973 he joined London Export Corporation and rose to become Chairman. Stephen has made over 200 trips to China and negotiated many joint ventures with a value in excess of 1 billion dollars. In 1992 Stephen was elected Chairman of the 48 Group Club. He pioneered Chinese New Year Dinners all over the United Kingdom, Icebreaker Lectures, and Icebreaker Awards. Stephen is the Vice Chairman of the China-Britain Business Council, a Fellow of University College London, a Trustee of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge, and a member of the Chairman’s organising Committee of CHINA NOW. |
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Gang Qian (钱钢) Leader of China Media Project team in Hong Kong University Gang Qian is best known for his tenure as managing editor of Southern Weekend, one of China’s most progressive newspapers, Qian Gang is one of China’s foremost journalists. Qian was also a co-creator and executive editor of “News Probe,” CCTV’s pioneering weekly investigative news program with nearly 20 million viewers. Qian collected historical documents for Chinese Boy Students, a book and five-hour documentary series on 120 young Chinese students sent to universities in the United States by the Qing government in the late 19th century. He is also the author of “The Great China Earthquake,” an investigative report on the 1976 earthquake at Tangshan in which 250,000 people were killed. |
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Fei Qin Faculty of the Department of Management at the London School of Economics (LSE). Dr. Fei Qin is on the faculty of Management at the LSE. She was Phelan Fellow at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva in 2005 and a Visiting Faculty at the Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011. She is a core member of the research team of LSE-RSM Innovation Co-Creation Lab. Dr Qin holds a PhD from MIT and a BA from Peking University. Her research focuses on international entrepreneurship, global production networks, and business model innovation. She has led research projects in China, India, Italy, the UK and the US on entrepreneurship and global value chains. One of her papers was selected by Emerald as among the top 50 academic articles in management worldwide in 2007. Dr Qin teaches Masters level courses on entrepreneurship and global markets and PhD level research methods at the LSE, and has been actively engaged in executive training on leadership and innovation in Asia, Europe, and North America. She has been invited to give research seminars at world-leading business schools including the Wharton School, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, MIT Sloan School, and Imperial College Business School. |
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Danny Quah Professor of Economics at the LSE Danny Quah is Professor of Economics at the LSE and Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS. He currently serves on Malaysia’s National Economic Advisory Council. In 2006-2009 he was Head of Department for Economics at LSE. In 2010 he was Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. Quah is also Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor in the Economics Department at the National University of Singapore. Quah has consulted for among others the World Bank, the Bank of England, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He is a Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances. |
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John-Paul Smith Global head of EM equity strategy at Deutsche Bank John-Paul Smith joined Deutsche Bank in 2010 as the GEM equity strategist-with 28 years of experience in both sell side strategy and fund management. Prior to Deutsche John- Paul worked in asset management, most recently as a global strategist and previously as the head of a large GEM equity team from 2001-05, achieving top decile performance and a rise in assets under management from less than $2bn to around $11bn. From 1995-2000 John-Paul was a Russia and EMEA strategist, when he was widely credited as one of the few sell-side analysts to predict the 1998 Russia crisis. John-Paul has an MA in Modern History from Merton College, Oxford and an MA in East European Studies from UCL. |
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Richard Urwin Managing Director, the head of investments within BlackRock’s Fiduciary Mandate Investment team Richard Urwin, Managing Director, is the head of investments within BlackRock’s Fiduciary Mandate Investment team. Richard is responsible for asset allocation and manager selection within the fiduciary client base. Richard’s service with the firm dates back to 2006, including his time with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. At MLIM, Richard was head of the Asset Allocation and Economics team. Previously, he was the head of strategic research at Gartmore. Richard earned a BA degree, with first class honours, in economics from Sheffield University in 1981, an MA degree in economics from Warwick University in 1982 and an MBA degree, with distinction, in finance from City University in 1990. |
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Jonathan Woetzel Director in McKinsey & Company’s Greater China Office Jonathan Woetzel is a Director in McKinsey & Company’s Greater China Office where he has lived for the past 25 years. He oversees the McKinsey Global Institute in Asia and has led McKinsey’s Energy and Materials practice in Asia and its Corporate Finance practice in China. Dr. Woetzel has extensive experience in developing strategies and organizations for both industrial and consumer companies. His public sector clients have included assisting the State Economic Commission of China in developing specific initiatives and regulatory changes to improve the foreign investment environment and drafting the energy policy of the Republic of China. As McKinsey’s leader in developing its China practice, Dr. Woetzel was responsible for opening the Shanghai location in 1995. He has also led many of the Firm’s most significant engagements in China for the past 5 years. |
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Martin King Whyte Professor of Sociology at Harvard University Martin King Whyte is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He received his BA from Cornell University and MA and PhD degrees from Harvard. He taught at the University of Michigan from 1970 to 1994, at George Washington University from 1994 to 2000, and returned to Harvard as a faculty member in 2000. He specializes in the study of grass roots social organization and social change in the PRC and has two recently published books reflecting his ongoing research on inequality patterns and trends in China: One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China (editor, Harvard University Press, 2010) and Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China (Stanford University Press, 2010). He has also published studies on China’s economic development patterns, continuity and change in Chinese family life, gender relations, health trends, and on comparisons of the post-socialist transition in China and Eastern Europe. |
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Xiaonian XU (许小年) Professor of Economics and Finance at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) Dr. Xiaonian Xu is Professor of Economics and Finance at CEIBS. He worked for China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC) since 1999 as Managing Director and Head of Research. Prior to CICC, Dr. Xu was Senior Economist with Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong from 1997 to 1998 and worked as a consultant of the World Bank in Washington DC in 1996. He was employed by the State Development Research Center of China as a research fellow from 1981 to 1985. He received Sun Yefang Economics Prize in 1996, the highest Chinese award in the field, for his research on China’s capital markets. His Research interests include: Macroeconomics, Finance, Financial Institutions and Financial Markets, Transitional Economies, and China’s Economic Reform. |
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Xiaoping XU (徐小平) Co-founder of New Oriental Group (新东方教育科技集团), is now the founder of ZhenFund (真格天使投资基金) Mr. XU Xiaoping, the co-founder of New Oriental Group, is now the founder of ZhenFund. After New Oriental successfully went IPO in 2006, Mr. Xu stepped up his role from helping youth finding jobs to investing youth creating their own firms. He became an Angel Investor, and won the award of “The Most Respected Angel Investor in year 2010”. His portfolio companies covered diversified industries, such as the E-Commerce Industry, the Education Industry, the Media Industry and etc. His investment philosophy is Innovation works without wall. Among the Investors, Mr. Xu is most famous for “Quick Decisions & Less Controls”. |
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Lan XUE (薛澜) Dean of School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University Dr. Lan Xue is professor and Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Executive Vice President of the Development Research Academy for the 21st Century, and Director of China Institute for Science and Technology Policy at Tsinghua University. He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His teaching and research interests include public policy analysis and management, science and technology policy, higher education policy, and crisis management. Dr. Xue has consulted for the World Bank, IDRC，APEC and other international organizations. He is on the advisory board of many government agencies in China. He is a recipient of 2001 National Distinguished Young Scientist Award in China. |
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Yang Du (都阳） Chief of Division of Labor and Human Capital, Institute of Population and Labor Economics, CASS Du Yang is a professor at Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chief of Division of Labor and Human Capital, and deputy Director of Research Center for Human Resources, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He got his Ph D. in Economics from Zhejiang University in 1999. Main research fields are labor market on China, economic growth, poverty and development. He published a host of papers on both domestic and international journals and several books on the Chinese labor market. He is principle investigator for some influential research projects. His is also the editor of Journal of China Labor Economics and member of academic committee of Institute of Population and Labor Economics. He has been invited as consultant for international organizations, including the World Bank, ILO, UNDP, and OECD. |
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Kato Yoshikazu (加藤嘉一) Research fellow, Research Center for Korean Peninsula studies, Peking University Kato Yoshikazu was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1984. After graduate from a high school in Japan, he started to study abroad at the Peking University in 2003. Kato got master degree on International Relations at the Graduate School of Peking University in 2010.Now Kato is a research fellow both at Research Center of Korean Peninsula Studies, Peking University in China and Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Institute, Keio University in Japan. Till now, Kato takes charge of columnist in Financial Times (Chinese version-UK), Asian Weekly (HK), Nikkei Business Online (Japan) and commentator on China Central Television (CCTV) and Phoenix TV in HK. In a year, Kato takes three hundreds of interview, published 10 books, writes two hundreds of column and gives one hundred of lecture on average. |
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Tingwei Zhang (张庭伟) Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago Tingwei Zhang is Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, and Director of Asia and China Research Program in College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs in the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was President of IACP (2005-2007), member of the Global Planning Committee of AICP (2001-2005), and serves on the International Conference Committee of ACSP (2001- ), Advisory Committee of IACP (2008- ) in the US. He is also a member of China National Planning Expert Committee, and as planning adviser to Chinese cities including Wuhan, Shenzhen, and Shanghai. His research interest covers planning theory, China’s transition and urban policy, and urban development in American cities. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters in China, the US, UK, France. |
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Weiying Zhang (张维迎) Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Market and Network Economy of Peking University In 2011, Professor Zhang received China Economic Theory Innovation Award for his contribution to the dual-track price reform. Furthermore, he is a member of “Chinese Economists 50 Forum”. Professor Zhang’s research interests include the industrial organization, corporate governance, information economics, and Chinese economic reform. His works have had significant impacts on China’s enterprise reform policy formulation and the development of economics in China. He has been widely regarded as a “leading market liberalist” in China for his pro-privatization, pro-liberalization and anti-regulation, and an authority of the theory of the firm and ownership reform in China. |
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