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Industrialisation, Urbanisation, and China's Sustainable Growth
Speaker: Professor Fan Gang, Professor of Economics, Peking University
Time: 17:00-18:15 17 April
Venue: Lecture Room 1, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Trumpington Street, Cambridge
This lecture explores the current stage of China's development; industrialisation, labour reallocation, and income disparities; urbanisation, social policies, and regional disparities; and local environment, energy structure, and low carbon development policies.
Professor Fan Gang is Director of the National Institute of Economic Research, Chairman of the China Reform Foundation (NERI-China) and Professor of Economics at Peking University and the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Born in Beijing in 1953, Professor Fan received his PhD in economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988. He was Visiting Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University from 1985 to 1987.
His publications include over 100 academic papers published in Chinese and English academic journals and 10 books on macroeconomics, and the economics of transition. The Economics of Climate Change in China, co-edited by Professor Fan, was listed as 11th in the world top 40 books on sustainability published in 2010, as judged by the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, and Published in A Journey of a Thousand Miles: The State of Sustainability Leadership (2011, University of Cambridge). He is a visiting professor at a number of universities and graduate schools in China and abroad, and served as the academic member of the Monetary Policy Committee of China's central bank from 2006-2010. He is also an adviser for various departments of the Chinese Central government and provincial governments, and consultant to The World Bank, IMF, UNDP and OECD.
Queries to Ying Jin (ying.jin@aha.cam.ac.uk) or Ranald Lawrence (rarl2@cam.ac.uk)