Events summary
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China Development forum
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China Week 2009
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Chinese New Year Show
2009
China development forum 2009 report
China Development Forum 2009 was organized for the first time as a China- Focus forum in the LSE. It was hosted by LSESU China Development Society, sponsored by HSBC, Confucius Institute for Business London and LSE Annual Fund. The forum was honoured to partner with LSE Economics Department, LSE Asian Research Centre, CCPN and ACfPU.
The one day forum focused on the outlook of China's economy in 2009 and the challenges it would face. Since the Chinese economy is expanding at a record speed, it had attracted more and more interests from LSE students and . Meanwhile, due to historic and political reasons, many students know little about actual stories happening in China. Therefore, China Development Society proposed this forum to help students to broaden their understandings about China's economy. Meanwhile, by inviting people from very different background, we aimed at providing impartial views and thus expecting collision of thoughts and ideas.
Although the initial aim of CDS was to deliver an event to help its members, the highly appealing properties of the forum had attracted numerous non-CDS-member scholars as well as professionals from outside LSE. From our statistics from the registration on the day, we had 142 audiences in total, among whom 110 were CDS members, 25 academics and 7 professionals. The attendance was satisfying.
We were proud to have the following prestigious speakers joining our forum:
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Prof. Wang Yiming (Vice-President of Academy of Macroeconomic Research (AMR), National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC))
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Prof. Zhang Jun (Professor of Economics at Fudan University)
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Mr. Daniel R Pearson (Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission)
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Prof. Danny Quah (Head of Economics Department, LSE)
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Prof. Athar Hussain (Director of Asian Research Centre, LSE)
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Dr. Paul Sheng (Partner of McKinsey & Co.)
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Prof. Peter Nolan (Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, Cambridge)
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Mr. Gabriel Stein (Lombard Street Research)
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Dr. Kent Deng (Department of Economic History, LSE)
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Dr. Bingqin Li (Department of Sociology, LSE)
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Dr. Qin Fei (Department of Management, LSE)
We got many positive feedback from audiences with suggestion of improvements. Main improvements of the following should be expected in the next forum:
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Networking sessions should be extended to allow deeper communications between audiences and speakers;
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Topics of each session was too general;
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The duration was too long, a considerable percentage of feedbacks mentioned the day had been too intense;
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More direct dialogues could be made between speakers with strongly different stances on a certain issue, say Mr. Daniel Pearson and Prof. Wang Yiming on US-China Trade.
"2009年中国发展论坛"报道
2009中国发展论坛是伦敦政治经济学院第一次以中国为中心举办的论坛会，由伦敦政治经济学院SU中国发展社团̀̀̀、由汇丰银行、伦敦商务孔子学院及伦敦政治经济学院年度基金会赞助，并荣幸地邀请了政治经济学院的经济系、亚洲研究中心及CCPN 和ACFPU作为合作伙伴。
为期一天的论坛主要就2009年中国经济发展形势及将要面临的挑战进行展望，使相关领域的人士及社会各界加深对中国经济现状的了解。当天的论坛共有142名听众，有来自中国发展社团成员110名、学者25名及经济领域专业人士7名，其中包括中国及全球经济学领域的数位知名专家、学者。