Academic Activities and Policy Workshops

Quarterly Macroeconomic Review and Forecast

Since its inception in 2005, CCWE has organized a quarterly seminar for the review and forecast of China’s current macroeconomic status and future trends by top-tier researchers, experts and government officials. The seminar series focuses on academic studies and policy impact. It has been well received and highly regarded. In 2008, the seminar series was dedicated to China’s 30 years of reform and opening-up. The forums are incorporated with CCWE quarterly economic reviews and forecasts to explore and discuss how China grows its economy in the dynamic context of reform and liberalization with the outside world. Forum topics cover a range of China’s social, economic and financial issues. Speakers and panelists include a good mix of first-rank researchers, government officials and business leaders. The topics of seminars in 2008 included:

The Global Financial Crisis and China

China’s Reform and Open-up under the Changing International Environment

Fluctuations in Economic Performance and Institutional Transformation

Thirty Years of Reform and Open-up: Transformation of Thinking and Thoughts in China

China Policy Update (CPU)

The China Policy Update (CPU) is a special program geared for international corporate executives and government officials who keep track of China’s policy and regulatory changes that impact multinational business strategies and operations. This program provides a timely and rare opportunity for MNCs to meet face-to-face with senior policy makers and leading experts who address the most crucial policy concerns and issues. The program is designed and delivered by CCWE. It is senior-level, free of charge, and invitation only with no media exposure.

In 2008, CPUs held by CCWE focused topics such as China’s Stimulus Program: Implications for the Chinese Economy and Foreign Players in China; The Eleventh NPC and CPPCC Meetings: Insiders’ Perspectives on New Government Structure and Policy Trend; CPC National Congress: New Direction and Challenges for China; Reforms of China's Financial Markets, and Are Foreign Investments Still Welcome in China.

CPU Speakers included Wang Baoan, Director General, Department of Economic Construction, Ministry of Finance, Zhang Jianping, Deputy Director General of the Department of Development and Planning, Ministry of Railway; Chen Kuiyuan, Vice-Chairman, CPPCC, President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Lu Zhongyuan, Deputy Director of the State Council Development Research Center; Zheng Xinli, Deputy Director of the CPC Central Committee Policy Research Office, Fan Gang, Director of the National Economics Research Institute China Reform Foundation; Bin Qi, Director of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Zaiping Yang, Deputy Director of the China Banking Regulatory Commission Policy and Regulation Bureau; Mr. Yongtu Long, Secretary-General of the Boao Forum for Asia and Former Chief Trade Negotiator and Vice-Minster of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC), and Xiangchen Zhang, Director-General of the WTO Affairs Department for the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM).