Insight China: China's Economic Outlook 2013 Go back »
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Time2012-12-12 | 14:30 - 16:30
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Venue:Marriot Beijing Northeast
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Fee:Members: 400 RMB |
Non Members: 600 RMB
The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is delighted to invite you to the next edition of Insight China, China's Economic Outlook for 2013, with renowned economist Wang Xiaolu, Xingdong Chen and Tao Ran on December 12th, 3 pm at the Marriot Beijing Northwest.
- Dr. Xiaolu Wang – Deputy Director and Senior Fellow of the National Economic Research Institute, China Reform Foundation. He won twice,in 1984 and 2005, the Sun Yefang (孙冶方) Economics Awards, the most prestigious economic award in China, awarded by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
- Mr. Xingdong Chen – Managing Director and Chief China Economist, BNP Paribas (China) Limited.
- Prof. Tao Ran – Professor in the School of Economics and the Director of China Center for Public Economics and Governance at Renmin University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings–Tsinghua Center Public Policy.
After growing at an average 10% on annual basis, China's GDP growth has been slowing down for now 10 quarters, registering 7.4% in the year to Q3, 2012. Many economists believe that the Chinese economy will continue to grow at 7 - 8.5% and that this downslide has come to an end due to recent economic data on retail sales, exports, industrial production and fixed asset investment.
However this forecast rests on three important assumptions: political will and capacity of the new leadership, the intensity of consumption versus investment and that no precedents for a significant downshift in the investment share of GDP without a considerable slowdown in economic growth.
Join Xiaolu Wang, Xingdong Chen and Tao Ran to analyze and discuss this crucial moment in Chinese economy.
Agenda:
14:30-15:00 Registration and Coffee
15:00-16:30 Presentation and Q&A
16:30 Networking
Speakers
Mr. Xingdong Chen
Xingdong Chen is Managing Director and Chief Economist, Head of Macro Research, BNP Paribas (China) Limited. Mr. Chen graduated from Peking University with Bachelor and Masters Degree in Economics in 1983 and 1985 respectively, and trained on macroeconomics in Oxford University as a visiting postgraduate in 1986-1988. He worked for the World Bank twice: From February to August 1988, Mr. Chen was appointed as an economic consultant by World Bank’s China and Mongolia Department in Washington D.C; From June 1990 to June 1993, Mr. Chen worked as an economist at World Bank’s China Resident Mission. From 1985 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1990, Mr. Chen was the economist of the Economic Reform Commission of PRC State Council, participating in a series of China’s open-up and reform policy formulation and implementation. Mr. Chen has worked in the investment banking for 17 years, starting with Crosby (later changed to Socgen-Crosby) Securities Limited in 1993 as a senior economist and Chief Economist. He joined Peregrine Investment Group in 1997, which was taken over by BNP Paribas Group. From May 1997 to June 2012, he worked as the Managing Director and Chief China Economist of BNP Paribas Securities (Asia) Limited based in Beijing. From July 2012 till now, he works as the Managing Director and Chief China Economist , Head of Macro Research of BNP Paribas (China) Limited based in Beijing
Prof. Tao Ran
Tao Ran is a Professor in the School of Economics and the Director of China Center for Public Economics and Governance at Renmin University in Beijing. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings-Tsinghua Center Public Policy whose research focuses on topics related to China's ongoing economic transition. A specialist in the Chinese economy, he has published on the political economy of China’s economic transition, land and household registration reform in China’s urbanization, local governance and public finance in rural China. His research has appeared most recently in the Journal of Comparative Economics, the Journal of Development Studies, Land Economics, Urban Studies, Political Studies, China Quarterly and Land Use Policy.
Dr. Xiaolu Wang
Wang Xiaolu, PhD, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow of National Economic Research Institute of China Reform Foundation since 1998. He Joined Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1978, was one of the editors of the journal Social Sciences in China, chief journal editor and a division director of the Chinese Institute for Economic System Reform of the State Committee of Economic Restructuring in the 1980s. He studied at the Australian National University in the 1990s and was an academic visitor and visiting professor in a number of international organizations and universities. Research fields: economic development and growth, structural reform and income distribution in China. More than 90 academic articles were published in China and internationally. He was a winner of the Sun Yefang Economics Awards (China) in 1984 and 2005, the J G Crawford Prizes for Academic Excellence of PhD thesis (Australian National University) in 1998, and China Soft Science Award in 2010.