USC/Economist Symposium: Life after 60: What is next for the PRC?
USC and the Economist Intelligence Unit explore China's future.
10/28/2009
Hyatt on the Bund
Address: 199 Huang Pu Road, Shanghai, China 200080
Cost: Invitation only
Phone: 86 21 6393 1234
Hyatt on the Bund
Shanghai
Attendance limited to members of the Economist Corporate Network.
The 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China is a major milestone, and the nation’s accomplishments will be celebrated with great pride and fanfare. China’s post-reform era has delivered affluence for Chinese consumers, extended the reach of China’s companies to international markets, and positioned China as a global power.
But what will the coming decades bring? Looking ahead to its next decade of growth, China will be facing major demographic change as well as environmental challenges. Increased industrialization and urbanization will not only alter the country’s landscape but will also generate a more pluralistic society. Will China’s growth model be adequate to accommodate these social, economic and political changes?
Co-sponsored by the USC U.S.-China Institute, USC Marshall School of Business, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, USC Office of Globalization, Economist Intelligence Unit
Agenda
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7: 45 Registration and breakfast
8:30 Introduction
Mary Boyd
Director, Shanghai, Economist Corporate Network
8:35 Welcoming remarks
Adam Clayton Powell III
Vice Provost for Globalization, University of Southern California
ECONOMIC TRANSITIONS
Chaired by Mary Boyd
8:40 Covering the changes – reporting from China
Dominic Zeigler
Correspondent, The Economist
8:50 China’s unfinished economic transition
Arthur Kroeber
Managing Director, Dragonomics Research & Advisory
9:15 Financial market reforms in China
Chen Baizhu
Professor, Gordon S. Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
9:40 Discussant:
Stephen Harder
Managing Partner (China), Clifford Chance
9:50 Discussion/Q&A
10:10 Coffee break
SOCIAL TRANSITIONS
Chaired by Clayton Dube, Associate Director, U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California
10:30 The impact of globalization
David Zweig
Director, Centre on China's Transnational Relations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
10:55 The views of China’s youth
Stanley Rosen
Director, East Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California
11:20 Discussant:
Kenneth Jarrett
Vice Chairman, Greater China, APCO Worldwide
11:30 Discussion/Q&A
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11:45 History in the Making: The Reporting China project
Clayton Dube
12:00 Closing remarks – Mary Boyd
Speakers
Mary Boyd
Director, Shanghai, Economist Corporate Network
Mary Boyd is responsible for programme development and client servicing in Shanghai. Before joining the Economist Group she was in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, serving on assignment in Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan and China (in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing). She has written for a number of Economist Intelligence Unit publications, including Country Report, China Hand and Business China. She has an MA (Area Studies) and an MSc (Public Policy and Management) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Baizhu Chen
Professor, Gordon S. Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Baizhu Chen received his B.S. (Mathematics) from Fudan University and then studied at the University of Rochester, where he completed his Ph.D. in Economics. He was a research economist at People's University of China in Beijing and, in addition to USC, he has taught at the Claremont Graduate School and University of Saskatchewan. Prof. Chen is the academic director of the USC/Shanghai Jiaotong University Global Executive MBA program. His research focuses on International Economics and Macroeconomics and his most recent publication is Financial Market Reform in China. Prof. Chen is currently studying Chinese savings patterns.
Clayton Dube
Associate Director, Univeristy of Southern California U.S.-China Institute
Clayton Dube has headed the US-China Institute since its 2006 founding. Prior to this, he was the UCLA Asia Institute’s Assistant Director and taught at Berea College. At UCLA, he directed the Asian studies teacher training program and oversaw a variety of initiatives, including the popular publications AsiaMedia and Asia Pacific Arts. He was associate editor of the academic quarterly Modern China from 1998 to 2002. Dube first lived in China from 1982 to 1985. His research focuses on the continuity and change in rural China.
Stephen Harder
Office Managing Partner (Shanghai and Beijing), Clifford Chance
Stephen Harder has over 15 years' experience in project finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations and debt restructurings in the US, Europe and Asia. His recent experience includes water, power and oil and gas infrastructure projects, cross border mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, privatisation and direct investment issues in China. Previously in Europe, he was advisor to the Governments of Poland and Russia with respect to sovereign debt restructuring and mass privatisation programs. Mr. Harder has been based in Shanghai since 2001. He graduated from Princeton University in Chinese Studies, and holds an MBA and JD degrees from Columbia University.
Kenneth Jarrett
Vice Chairman, Greater China, APCO Worldwide
Kenneth Jarrett has more than 20 years of experience in U.S.-Chinese affairs. Mr. Jarrett served as the U.S. consul general in Shanghai from 2005 to 2008. Prior to this he served as the deputy consul general in Hong Kong, and as deputy chief of the political section of the U.S. embassy in Beijing, and consul of the US Consulate General in Chengdu. He joined APCO Worldwide in 2008. He was educated at Cornell University, Yale University, and National Defense University.
Arthur Kroeber
Managing Director, Dragonomics Research & Advisory
Arthur Kroeber is based in Beijing and has been managing director of Dragonomics Research & Advisory, an independent research firm specializing in analysis of the Chinese economy and its global impact, and editor of its flagship journal, the China Economic Quarterly since 2002. A graduate of Harvard College, Mr. Kroeber worked from 1987 to 2002 as a financial journalist and economic analyst in China, Taiwan and India. In addition to covering Asian economies for the Economist Intelligence Unit, he has written for the Economist, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Fortune and Wired, and is a contributor to the opinion pages of the Financial Times and the Washington Post. He is a member of the Fernand Braudel Institute of International Economics and a board member of the Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business at Indiana University.
Adam Clayton Powell III
Vice Provost for Globalization, University of Southern California
As Vice Provost, Adam Clayton Powell III works to expand the university’s international presence and impact. Powell previously served as director of the USC Integrated Media Systems Center, the National Science Foundation’s Research Center for multimedia research. Prior to joining USC in 2003, Powell was general manager of Howard University’s WHUT-TV, the first African American-owned public television station in the United States. Before 2001, he served as vice president/technology and programs for the Freedom Forum where he developed and oversaw digital and new-media conferences and training programs for policymakers, journalists, and others across the globe. He has also served as an executive producer at Quincy Jones Entertainment, vice president for news and information programming at National Public Radio, and manager of network radio and television news for CBS News. Powell has won numerous awards, including the 1999 World Technology Award for Media and Journalism and the Overseas Press Club Award for international reporting.
Stanley Rosen
Professor, University of Southern California
Stanley Rosen specializes in Chinese politics and society and directs the East Asian Studies Center. The author or editor of six books and numerous articles on topics including the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese legal system, public opinion, youth, gender, human rights, film and the media. He is the co-editor of Chinese Education and Society and a frequent guest editor of other translation journals. He co-edited State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimation (with Peter Hays Gries). His newest book (co-edited with Ying Zhu) is entitled The Interplay Among Art, Politics and Commerce in Chinese Film and will be published by Hong Kong University Press.
Dominic Zeigler
Correspondent, The Economist
Dominic Ziegler joined The Economist in 1986 as a financial reporter. He went on to become Finance Editor, then Washington Correspondent from 1991-94. He was the Economist’s China Correspondent from 1994-2000, based first in Hong Kong and then Beijing. He went back to London as Finance and Economics Editor in 2001. In 2004 he returned to the US as an acting Washington Correspondent, and after that stood in for half a year as editor of the Books and Arts section, before serving as deputy editor of Intelligent Life, an Economist publication. He was Tokyo Bureau Chief from 2005-09. He is now author of The Economist's new Banyan column on Asian affairs.
David Zweig
Chair Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
David Zweig has headed the Centre on China’s Transnational Relations since 2002. He previously taught at Queen’s University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His books include Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages, and Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era. He is currently writing a book on China’s overseas student diaspora and returnees, as well as directing two projects on Hong Kong-Mainland relations. He also publishes on China’s foreign policy and energy policy. Professor Zweig is a member of the USC US-China Institute board of scholars. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.
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