ADB/NSD PROJECT: CAN CHINA AVOID THE MIDDLE-INCOME TRAP?

Finalization Workshop

China Center for Economic Research
National School of Development, Peking University

Date: 24-25 February 2011

Venue: Zhonghua Hall, The Lakeview Hotel (B1 Floor)

 

PROGRAM

(Note: 20 minutes for presentation of paper, 10 minutes for discussants, and 10 minutes for open forum.  As the program is tight, participants are enjoined to adhere to the time schedule.)

 

24 February, Thursday

Morning Moderator – Yiping Huang

08:45-09:00                 Introduction

                                        Juzhong Zhuang (ADB) and Yiping Huang (NSD)

09:00-09:40                 China: Macroeconomic Adjustment & Control  

                                        Presenter: Feng Lu (NSD)

                                        Discussant: Maria Socorro Bautista (ADB)

                                        Open forum

09:40-10:20                 Public finance and fiscal sustainability

                                        Presenter: Kang Jia (IFSR)

                                        Discussant: Xin LI (NSD)

                                        Open forum

10:20-10:50                 Tea Break

10:50-11:30                 Toward a service economy

                                        Presenter: Jianguo Xu (NSD)

                                        Discussant: Donghyun Park (ADB)

                                        Open forum

11:30-12:10                 Urbanization and rural development: history, current issues and policy

                                        options

                                        Presenter: Lixing Li (NSD)

                                        Discussant: Guanghua Wan (ADB)

                                        Open forum

 

Afternoon Moderator – Juzhong Zhuang

13:30-14:10                 Demographic change and labor market

                                        Presenter: Fang Cai (CASS)

                                        Discussant: Ming Lu (Fudan University)

                                        Open forum

14:10-14:50                 Empirics of global manufacturing upgrading and policy implications for

                                        PRC       

                                        Presenter: Loren Brandt (University of Toronto)

                                        Discussant: Paul Vandenberg (ADB)

                                        Open forum

14:50-15:30                 Moving up the value chain in manufacturing for China

                                        Presenter: Miaojie Yu (NSD)

                                        Discussant: Loren Brandt (University of Toronto)

                                        Open forum

15:30-16:00                 Tea Break

16:00-16:40                 Development of China’s financial sector

                                        Presenter: Ho-Mou Wu (NSD)

                                        Discussant: Liping He (Beijing Normal University)

                                        Open forum

16:40-17:20                 Education and human capital development

                                        Presenter: Meiyan Wang (CASS)

                                        Discussant: Michael Han (RTBO)

                                        Open forum

 

25 February, Friday

Morning Moderator – Yiping Huang

09:00-09:40                 The development of SME and the future of Chinese economy

                                        Presenter: Zhong Xu (The People’s Bank of China)

                                        Discussant: Minquan Liu (Peking University)

                                        Open forum

09:40-10:20                 Role of the PRC in the global economy

                                        Presenter: Ligang Song (Australian National University)

                                        Discussant: Liqing Zhang (CUFE)

                                        Open forum

10:20-10:50                 Tea Break

10:50-12:20                 Synthesis report

                                        Presenters: Juzhong Zhuang, Yiping Huang, and Paul Vandenberg

Discussants: Shantong Li (DRC), Ji Zou (Renmin University), Tao Fu (Tsinghua University)

                                        Open forum

 

Afternoon Moderator – Juzhong Zhuang

13:30-14:10                 The role of the government in China’s future economic growth

                                        Presenter: Yang Yao (NSD)

                                        Discussant: Mai Lu (CDRF)

                                        Open forum

14:10-14:50                 Latin America’s economic challenges: lessons for emerging economies

                                        Presenter: Nora Lustig (Tulane University) and Jaime Ros

                                        Discussant: Bin Zhang (CASS)

                                        Open forum

14:50-15:20                 Tea Break

15:20-16:00                 Structural transformation and policies: Experiences of East Asia

                                        Presenter: Wing Thye Woo (University of California at Davis)

                                        Discussant: Fan Zhai (CIC)

                                        Open forum

16:00-16:40                 Old-age support and protection in China

                                        Presenter: Yaohui Zhao and Xiaoyan Lei (NSD)

                                        Discussant: Ling Zhu (CASS)

                                        Open forum