April 20 (Zhifuxuan Classroom) 
8:15am-8:30am Registration, take group photo 
8:30 am - 8:40 am Welcome and opening remarks by Justin Lin and Yang Yao 
    
Session I  Topic: Industrial Policy 
8:40 am – 9:10 am China's Transition and Modern Economics 
  Presenter:  Justin Yifu Lin, National School of Development, Peking University 
    
9:10am-9:40am Comparative Advantage and the Effect of Industry Policies: Evidence from Chinese Export Processing Zones 
  Presenter:  Chen Zhao, China Center for Economic Studies, Fudan University 
    
9:40 am – 10:10 am Mass Capitalism and Grass-root Innovations in China 
  Presenter: Tomoo Marukawa, Institute of Social Science Contemporary China Research Base, The University of Tokyo 
    
10:10am-10:30am Coffee/Tea Break 
    
Session II Topic: Governance 
10:30am-11:00am How to Democratize Neoliberal Globalization?-The Role of Global Civil Society - 
  Presenter: Hyun-Chin Lim, Asia Center at Seoul National University 
    
11:00am-11:30am  Re-negotiating Sovereignty and Rights of Governance: Comparing Taiwan's Entry into the WTO and WHA 
  Presenter:  Sow Keat Tok, Faculty of Arts, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne 
    
11:30am-12:00am  What Is New of the New Type of Great Power Relationship 
  Presenter: Yawei Liu, China Research Center 
    
12:00am-2:00pm Lunch and Break 
    
Session III Topic: Human Capital and Inequality 
2:00pm-2:30pm Inequality in China: an Overview 
  Presenter: John Knight, The Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP) at St Edmund Hall of University of Oxford 
    
2:30pm-3:00pm Wasted Opportunities: Professional women returning to China 
  Presenter: Jie Hao, China Studies Centre, The University of Sydney 
    
3:00pm-3:30pm Talent Management in China 
  Presenter: Tony Fang, Chinese Economist Society 
    
3:30pm-4:00pm Coffee/Tea Break 
    
Session IV Topic:  Financial Policy 
4:00pm-4:30pm Central government versus local governments in China:which determinants for cyclicality of the fiscal policy 
  Presenter: Mary-Françoise Renard, l'IDREC (Institut de Recherche sur l'Economie de la Chine) au CERDI 
    
4:30pm-5:00pm The challenge of containing local government debt: fiscal decentralization and public investment management in China 
  Presenter:  Christine Wong, The Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at University of Melbourne  
    
5:00pm-5:30pm Financial Repression and Real Exchange Rate 
  Presenter:  Xun Wang, Stockholm China Economic Research Institute 
    
5:30pm-6:00pm Innovative Financing, Value Chain Development, and Poverty Alleviation in China:  the Tale of Two Poverty Counties 
  Presenter:  Enjiang Cheng, The Centre for Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University 
    
6:00pm-8:00pm Reception at Quanjude 
    
April 21 (Second floor of Wanzhong Building) 
Session I  Topic:  Political Economy  
8:30 am – 9:00 am Meritocracy and Economic Growth in China 
  Presenter:  Yang Yao, National School of Development, Peking University 
    
9:00am-9:30am Institutional Breakthrough? China’s New Approach to Political and Economic System Reform after the Third Plenum 2013 
  Presenter: Margot Schueller, The GIGA Institute of Asian Studies 
    
9:30 am – 10:00 am China's Political Economy and Political Science 
  Presenter:  Kellee S TSAI, The Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
    
10:00am-10:30am Coffee/Tea Break 
    
Session II Topic: Social Changes I 
10:30am-11:00am Perceptions of Democracy among Intellectuals in Contemporary China: Evidence from Study on Political Scientists in Beijing and Shanghai 
  Presenter: Jung-nam Lee, Center for Chinese Studies,Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University 
    
11:00am-11:30am  New Media, Public Opinion and Social Change in China: A Reflection 
  Presenter:  CHAN Joseph Man, The Universities Service Centre for China Studies 
    
11:30am-12:00am  Generational Shift in Chinese Public’s Social and Political Values  
  Presenter:  Zhengxu Wang, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham 
    
12:00am-2:00pm Lunch meeting, discuss the chapter of the association 
    
Session III Topic: Social Changes II 
2:00pm-2:30pm Social Challenges of Urbanization in China 1978-2014 
  Presenter: Flemming Christiansen, Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) of the University of Duisburg-Essen  
    
2:30pm-3:00pm Natural Disaster Governance and China’s Changing Society – Steps Forward and Backward? 
  Presenter: Lauri Paltemaa, Centre for East Asian Studies at Unversity of Turku 
    
3:00pm-3:30pm Prospering from a Purge: The Role of “Counterrevolutionary Splittists” in Mao’s Power Strategy 
  Presenter: Victor Shih, 21st Century China Program, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at University of California at San Diego 
    
3:30pm-4:00pm Coffee/Tea Break 
    
Session IV Topic: Perspectives of China Studies 
4:00pm-4:30pm Urban China and China Studies 
  Presenter: Carolyn Cartier, China Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney 
    
4:30pm-5:00pm China Studies in Korea: Challenges and Prospects 
  Presenter:  Young-Rok Cheong, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National Unviersity (GSIS)  
    
5:00pm-5:30pm Building A Spatial Research Infrastructure for China Studies 
  Presenter:  Shuming Bao, China Data Center, University of Michigan 
    
5:30pm-6:00pm Closing remarks by John Knight, futur activities