The European Chamber’s Financial Services Working Groups are delighted to invite you to the Joint Working Group Meeting “CF40/CASS Report Presentation on Foreign Perspectives of China’s Financial Opening Up” which is to take place on Tuesday 24th November 2020, 16:00-17:30 pm.

Register online or email Pablo Galvez at pgalvez@europeanchamber.com.cn (Shanghai) before Friday 20th November, COB. You will receive a confirmation email containing the link to join the meeting via Zoom after registration closes the day before. You may also attend in person at Shanghai office. Please send an email to pgalvez@europeanchamber.com.cn if your preference is in person attendance.
During August, the European Chamber, along with the US-China Business Council and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), participated in an anonymous survey based on an annual research project financed by the influential Chinese think tank CF40 (China Finance 40 Forum) and conducted by CASS (the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). This year the project was focused on shedding light on the difference in perceptions between China’s regulators and foreign financial institutions when it comes to the opening up, underlining that there is a big gap. On one hand, China’s officials think they make great efforts to push forward the financial opening. On the other hand, foreign financial institutions feel limited improvement and wish the opening could bring more impactful changes.

On this basis, CASS has now published the report at the second Shanghai Bund Summit and are delighted to share the results with members of the European Chamber’s Financial Services Working Groups. At this meeting, Mr. Qiyuan Xu, Senior fellow, Head of Economic Development Department and Deputy Director of RCIF (Research Center of International Finance) at CASS will present the report.

Tentative agenda

16.00    Welcome remarks by Mr. Ronan Diot, Insurance WG Chair, Groupama-AVIC Property Insurance Co., Ltd. 

16.10    Presentation by Dr. Qiyuan Xu, Senior fellow, Head of Economic Development Department, CASS 

17.00    Q&A Session and Open Discussion, moderated by Mr. Peter Ling-Vannerus, Banking & Securities WG Chair, SEB

17.20    Closing remarks by Mr. Peter Ling-Vannerus, Banking & Securities WG Chair, SEB

17.30    End of meeting

Speakers

Dr. Qiyuan Xu

Deputy Director General, Institute of World Economics and Politics, National Academy of Social Sciences

Dr. Qiyuan Xu

Deputy Director General, Institute of World Economics and Politics, National Academy of Social Sciences

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Dr. Xu joined the IWEP (Institute of World Economics and Politics), at CASS (the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) in 2008, and became a Senior Fellow in 2017. Now, he is the Head of the Economic Development Division within IWEP. In 2012, he also took up the role of Advisor to the International Collaboration Department of the Chinese Ministry of Finance. Dr. Xu also sits on the work team of CEEM (China’s External Economic Environment) within IWEP. This work team publishes a quarterly report on global macroeconomics, and he is responsible for the research on China’s economy and RMB issues.

Since 2018, Dr. Xu has been one of the two co-chairs of the project “Promoting the establishment of long-term and stable bilateral economic and trade relations between China and the US”, which is financed by Pushan Funding. His interests mainly focus on China’s macro economy and policies, RMB internationalization, China and US trade tension. In late 2019, Dr. Xu joined CF40 (China Finance 40 Forum) and took the part-time position as the Research Director.

He has published 60 academic papers, hundreds of columns in esteemed English newspapers such as the Financial Times, Financial World and leading medias in Chinese. Five books have been published on China’s economy and RMB’s topic. Dr. Xu Qiyuan has been a visiting fellow at CIGI (2014), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2014), Bruegel (2013), Hitotsubashi University (2009), and the Institute of International Monetary Affairs (IIMA) at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (2011).

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