Seminar on “New Globalization, RCEP and the Future of Chinese Cities”

 & Book Launch of “New Situation of China’s Economy and Trade and Local Development - 

Taking the Relationship between Yiwu and RCEP/CPTPP as an Example”

2023 marks the first anniversary of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's largest free trade agreement. The RCEP promotes economic and trade cooperation among 15 countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand, and a new round of globalization. In this process, the role of cities such as Yiwu - the small commodity capital of the world, is further highlighted.

To this end, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY), together with Zhejiang China Commodities City Group Co., Ltd. conducted a year-long study, resulting in the book “New Situation of China’s Economy and Trade and Local Development - Taking the Relationship between Yiwu and RCEP/CPTPP as an Example” (500,000 words, edited by Wang Wen, Zhao Wenge and Liu Ying), which will be officially published by People's Publishing House on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the “Belt and Road Initiative” and the 30th anniversary of the founding of Zhejiang China Commodities City Group Co., Ltd.

We now invite renowned experts to discuss the situation and release a new book in the context of the new globalization trend in the post-epidemic era. The agenda is as follows:

Hosts: Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY)

            Yiwu Institute for Market Development Studies

            Yiwu Commodity City Research Institute

Date: May 8, 2023 (Monday) at 19:30-21:00 in Beijing time

Language: Chinese

Agenda

19:30-19:45  Opening Remark

Moderator: Liu Ying, Research Fellow and Director of the Department of Cooperative Studies of RDCY

Opening speakers:

- Ge Guoqing, Chairman of the 13th Yiwu CPPCC, Chairman of Yiwu Institute for Market Development Studies

- Wang Wen, Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY)

19:45-20:00  Book Launch

Speakers:

- Zhao Wenge, Board Chairman of Zhejiang China Commodities City Group Co., Ltd.

- Cao Chun, Senior Editor of People's Publishing House

20:00-21:00  Keynote Speeches

Moderator: Cai Tongjuan, Deputy Director of Macro Research Department and researcher of RDCY

Speakers (in no particular order):

- Wang Yiming,  Former Deputy Director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, Vice Chairman of China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE)

- Ong Tee Keat, Chairman of Center for New Inclusive Asia, Former Minister of Transport, Malaysia

- Chi Fulin, President of China Institute for Reform and Development (CIRD)

- John Ross, Former Director of Economic and Business Policy of London, Senior Fellow of RDCY

- Ding Songquan, Vice President of Huzhou College