Understanding China's 13th Five-Year Plan: Blueprint for the Nation Go back »
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Time2016-04-11 | 14:00 - 16:30
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Venue:Jones Day Shanghai Office
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Fee:Members: 200 RMB |
Non Members: 400 RMB
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The recently released Proposal on Formulating the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) on National Economic and Social Development (13th FYP Proposal), reaffirms President Xi Jinping’s promise of revitalizing the Chinese nation through economic and legal restructuring and reforms. From what is spelled out in the proposal’s long list of aspirations, Xi is still very much committed to the broad strokes of reforms painted in previous policy documents. In fact, almost all of the proposals in the document are either existing policies or a natural expansion of the reform goals laid out in the landmark policy-setting meeting, the Third Plenum, two years ago. The 13th FYP Proposal packages these into one overarching blueprint, reiterating policies without providing any further clarity.
The 13th FYP will be the first five-year plan under President Xi’s leadership, and the articulation of China’s vision for its future. As such, foreign business must become fluent not just in the substance of the plan, but in its language as well, in order to argue for how they fit into China today.
The European Chamber is delighted to have Mr. James McGregor, chairman of APCO Worldwide's greater China region discuss the significance of the 13th FYP Proposal to foreign and Chinese companies doing business in China.
**Read APCO Worldwide’s full article on the 13th FYP please here.
AGENDA
14:00 to 14:30 Registration
14:30 to 14:40 Welcome Remarks by Dr. Ioana Kraft, General Manager, European Chamber
14:40 to 15:00 "The 13th Five-Year Plan: Xi Jinping Reiterates his Vision for China" by Mr. James McGregor, Chairman, APCO Worldwide
15:00 to 16:00 Moderated Panel
- Mr. Andrew Browne, Senior Correspondent and Columnist for the Wall Street Journal
- Mr. Mick Adams, Chairman and Vice President, European Chamber Shanghai
16:00 to 16:10 Closing Remarks
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Speakers
Mr. James McGregor
James McGregor is Greater China Chairman for APCO Worldwide, and author of two highly regarded books: No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers: The Challenges of Chinese Authoritarian Capitalism, published in October 2012, and One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, published in 2005. He was a veteran reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and prior to joining APCO he was founder and CEO of a China-focused consulting and research firm for hedge funds. He also held previous roles as a senior advisor for Ogilvy Public Relations China and the China managing partner for GIV Venture Partners, a venture capital fund that focused on technology and Internet investments in China and India. In 2014, he received a SABRE Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement from The Holmes Group.
Mr. McGregor was a reporter in the Washington bureau of Knight-Ridder newspapers during the Reagan administration. After serving as the Taiwan bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal from 1987 to 1990 and China bureau chief from 1990 to 1994, he spent seven years building Dow Jones’ media business in China as CEO of Dow Jones’ China. During this time, he established CNBC in China and created the Chinese language Web site of wsj.com, Dow Jones’ Chinese-language newswires, Chinese stock-market indexes and the first weekly business-television show in China. He was also a Series A investor in Sohu.com and served on the Sohu board for several years. After successfully preventing Xinhua News Agency from obtaining a monopoly on financial information in China, he received the Barney Kilgore award, Dow Jones’ highest employee accolade.
Mr. McGregor is a professional speaker, regular television and radio commentator and a contributor of essays and opinion articles for a variety of publications. He has lived in China for more than two decades, and can speak and read Chinese. He was an active member of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham) for nearly a decade and served as chairman in 1996. He is currently chairman of the U.S. Government Relations Committee for AmCham. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, a Global Council member of the Asia Society, a board member of the U.S.-China Education Trust and a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.