LSE SU China Development Forum 2016 - Navigating Complexity - 13:55 Session 7 - Belt and Road Initiative: China’s Grand Vision - 13:55 Session 7 [Audio]

All items | LSE Public lectures and events | All media types

Speaker(s): See description | The LSE SU China Development Forum (CDF) is the flagship annual conference of the LSE SU China Development Society (CDS). Co-organised with the LSE Asia Research Centre, the CDF provides a platform for students, academics and professionals to exchange ideas and hold in-depth discussions on key issues surrounding China and its development. The 2016 Forum, held at LSE on 30th January 2016 and attended by over 400 delegates, hosted 29 speakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Europe and the United States. Titled Navigating Complexity, the Forum considered China’s environmental sustainability; economy; ethnic policy/conflict; abolishment of the One Child Policy; and the question of Deng Xiaoping’s ‘One Country Two Systems’ in Hong Kong. Looking ahead, the 2016 Forum also analysed China’s outward, future-thinking initiatives; imagined China’s foreign policy outlook as a rising superpower, assessed the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s impact, and the grand ‘One Belt, One Road’ vision to extend China’s reach. Panel Sessions 9:00 Session 1. Welcome Speech and Keynote Speech | Speakers: Yanwei Ge, Raymond Li, David Snell. 10:10 Session 2. Questioning ‘One Country, Two Systems’: a Case Study on Hong Kong | Speakers: Christopher Hughes, Simon Young, Zhang Jieping, Malte Philipp Kaeding. 10:10 Session 3. Climate Change and Energy: a Sustainable Future | Speakers: Wu Changhua, Kevin Tu, Brian Hoskins. 11:35 Session 4. 1+1>3: One-Child Policy Abolished | Speakers: Chen Wei, Therese Hesketh, Stuart Gietel-Basten. 12:45 Session 5. Economic Inequality and China’s Development: a Roundtable Discussion | Speakers: Danny Quah, Kent Deng, Athar Hussain. 13:55 Session 6. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Challenges and Opportunities | Speakers: Kerry Brown, Natalie Lichtenstein, Danny Quah. 13:55 Session 7. Belt and Road Initiative: China’s Grand Vision | Speakers: Zhang Jiming, Stephen Perry, Lee George Lam. 15:20 Session 8. China’s Ethnic Policy: an Uneasy Harmony? | Speakers: Athar Hussain, Guan Kai, Matthew Erie, James Millward. 15:20 Session 9. When Titans Waltz: an Outlook for China’s Foreign Policy | Speakers: Christopher Hughes, Zhang Ruizhuang, Robert Sutter. 16:45 Session 10. Reforming China’s Economic Reforms | Speakers: Danny Quah, Cao Yuanzheng, Jin Keyu. 18:00 Session 11. Closing Speech | Speaker: Geoff Morrow.