David Wertime, Professional Speaker
Feb 13, 2014
The world's factory is turning into an R&D machine -- and fast catching up with America. Beijing is urgently looking for ways of designing its own products rather than manufacturing someone else's. Put another way, it wants to shift from making iPhones to inventing them.
Feb 10, 2014
Credit in China is growing at a breakneck pace, raising serious concerns about the level of risk in the financial system. The government now must determine how to balance the economy’s liquidity needs with protecting the system's solvency.
Yu Xiang, Senior Fellow, China Construction Bank Research Institute
Feb 10, 2014
While China is virtually certain to be the world’s biggest trade nation, Yu Xiang points out four key reasons why the country is yet to be the strongest trade nation and urges for the expansion of the US-China trade relationship.
Yi Xianrong, Researcher, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Feb 05, 2014
Although in 2014, it appears China will be adhering to a “prudent” monetary policy and working to balance its finances, the world’s number two economy will still face considerable challenges, such as rising credit and an appreciating currency.
Zhang Jun, Dean, School of Economics, Fudan University
Jan 27, 2014
Over the last two decades, a consensus about China's growth model has emerged, with observers arguing that a shift to an intensive, efficiency-driven growth is essential. But empirical research reveals a critical flaw in this assessment – namely, that annual efficiency gains in China far exceed those of the US.
Liu Shijin, Deputy Director of Development Research Center, China's State Council
Jan 15, 2014
Liu Shijin outlines three policy targets that will be conducive to steady growth in China’s economy, which can then rapidly shift to a more stable rate.
Zhang Monan, Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, CCIEE
Jan 14, 2014
The risk of China’s debt crisis is building up and China needs structural solutions in order to effectively solve the issue, writes Zhang Monan.
Michael Justin Lee, Lecturer, University of Maryland
Jan 10, 2014
While much of the world has focused on the US Federal Reserve’s phasing out of quantitative easing, more significant economic news came out of China’s interbank market. As Michael Justin Lee explains, China’s year-end liquidity squeeze has implications for the global economy and deserves more attention.
Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale University
Jan 02, 2014
China was hardly lacking in policy pronouncements in the final months of 2013. But, seen in their entirety, the risk of incoherence has become evident, writes Stephen Roach.
Zhang Monan, Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, CCIEE
Dec 23, 2013
With the Central Economic Work Conference just concluded, the important task facing the 2014 Chinese economy seems to be twofold: balancing China's medium and long-term reform with its short-term growth, and balancing its structural adjustment with control and prevention of possible risks, writes Zhang Monan.