The Road Ahead for China’s Economy
In recent years, China has increasingly confronted new challenges in economic policy, including rising labor costs, low household consumption, rapid urbanization and inefficient domestic investment. While it is now widely acknowledged in Beijing that major structural adjustments are needed to address these issues, implementing serious reforms pose major challenges for the newly installed leadership.
On April 16, the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings and China’s Caixin Media Group hosted a conference to examine the daunting challenges confronting China’s new leaders. The morning panels featured a discussion of the financial sector as well as the relationship between the domestic agenda for financial reform and China’s evolving strategy for outbound investment. The afternoon panels took a close look at the political obstacles to implementing major economic reform in areas such as tax policy, the household registration system and land transfers, as well as explore the impact of environmental and natural resource constraints on China’s economic growth.
Agenda
China’s Outbound Investment
WANG Shuo
Managing Editor, Caixin Media
John Frisbie
President - U.S.-China Business Council
Arthur R. Kroeber
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Zhang Lanlan
Managing Director and CEO - CICC U.S. Securities
Reforming China’s Financial System
Arthur R. Kroeber
Nonresident Senior Fellow
HU Shuli
Chief Editor, Caixin Media
Yukon Huang
Senior Associate, Asia Program - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Lunch
Arthur R. Kroeber
Nonresident Senior Fellow
HU Shuli
Chief Editor, Caixin Media
Yukon Huang
Senior Associate, Asia Program - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
U.S.-China Relations and Shifting Global Energy Supply
Zhang Guobao
Vice Chairman, National Development and Reform Commission and Director, National Energy Administration, People's Republic of China
Environmental and Resource Constraints on China’s Growth
HUANG Yanzhong
Senior Fellow for Global Health - Council on Foreign Relations
Jennifer L. Turner
Director, China Environment Forum - Woodrow Wilson Center
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