Fall 2006

Topic : China's Economy in the Next 20 Years.
Speaker : Hai Wen.
Time : 10:00AM-11:30AM, Oct 7, 2006, Saturday.
Location : Haas School of Business (Room C325).

About the Speaker/Speakers :
Professor Hai Wen got his Ph.D. degree in economics from UC Davis at 1991. He is the Inchcape Professor of Economics of China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He is now a vice president of Peking University, and a vice director of CCER. His research fields are international economics and development economics.

Professor Hai has been a well-known scholar on economy and is currently served as a "Special Commentator" at CCTV. He will be talking about the problems and difficulties Chinese economy has to deal with, and of course, what China should do to maintain the high speed of development in the upcoming years.

Chinese homepage: http://web.cenet.org.cn/web/wenhai/
English homepage: http://en.ccer.edu.cn/ReadNews.asp?NewsID=1371

About the Speaker/Speakers :
Lin Gu recently left a position as Beijing-based writer for China Features, a feature news and photo service affiliated with Xinhua (New China) News Agency. In eight years writing for the service, he has reported on a number of issues, including social migration, environmental protection, and the HIV/AIDS crisis.

In 2002-2003, Lin took a year's study leave to earn an M.Phil. in social anthropology from Cambridge University. The topic he chose for his graduation thesis was "NGOs' role in shaping China's emerging civil society". Upon his return to China, Lin served as co-presenter together with seven other international journalists on BBC World's new radio talk program "Letter." He was the two-time recipient of the Developing Asia Journalism Award (sponsored by the Asian Development Bank Institute) in both 2004 and 2006, for his coverage of AIDS crisis along the China-Vietnamese border and the controversy over genetically modified rice respectively.

Lin Gu was invited by Prof. Orville Schell, the dean of graduate school of journalism at Berkeley to be a visiting scholar. He will observe American society from the perspective of a Chinese journalist, in the hope to write series of "Letters from America".