Food security and climate change are two of the biggest challenges facing China, and we have an eminent expert eager to chat with you over wine about both. Please join a informal (but on the record) conversation and complimentary glass of wine with Dr. Kanayo Felix Nwanze, president of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), to discuss such topics as the $20 billion pledged for food security at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila last summer and IFAD’s position on the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change.
DATE: Monday, October 12th
TIME: 7.30-8.30pm
VENUE: Westin Chaoyang, MIX Room, 1 Xinyuan Nan Road, Sanlitun, Yanshaqiao新源南路1号, Tel 5922-8888, Web www.westin.com/chaoyang
ENTRANCE: free to FCCC members, 50 rmb on the door to non-members
REPLY to fcccadmin@gmail.com so we can cater accordingly
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kanayo F. Nwanze was appointed IFAD’s president last April. During his 10 years as Director-General of the Africa Rice Centre, Dr. Nwanze was instrumental in introducing and promoting New Rice for Africa, a high-yield, drought- and pest-resistant rice variety developed for the African landscape. Nwanze earned a doctorate in Agricultural Entomology from Kansas State University in 1975.
Spend, spend, spend. The world’s eyes are on China’s masses, hopeful that the global economy will come out of the doldrums if China consumes more. Whether China’s growth will be sustainable critically depends on making the switch from investment/export driven growth to consumption driven growth. China did experience a remarkable consumption boom but it was in the 1980s. Professor Yasheng Huang from MIT Sloan School of Management shows in his research that the slow income growth, rather than high savings rate, is the cause behind consumption decline. The policy implication is that China needs to rebalance its domestic economy in favor of household income but this rebalancing act requires substantial reforms.
DATE: Monday, October 12
TIME: 12.30 (lunch not provided)
VENUE: 12F, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business 长江商学院 (see bottom for full address and map)
ENTRANCE: free to FCCC members, 50 rmb on the door to non-members
REPLY to fcccadmin@gmail.com to reserve your place and for security
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Huang Yasheng 黄亚生 is professor of political economy and international management and holds International Program Professorship in Chinese Economy and Business at Sloan School of
Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard University and consultant at the World Bank. His recent book Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics was picked by the Economist magazine as one of the Best Books of 2008. A detailed narrative account of history of economic reforms in China, his book shows that private entrepreneurship, facilitated by financial liberalization and microeconomic flexibility, played a central role in China’s economic miracle. The book predicted and discusses the current economic challenges facing China.
Professor Huang has published Inflation and Investment Controls in China (1996), FDI in China (1998), Selling China (2003) and Financial Reform in China (2005, co-edited with Tony Saich and Edward Steinfeld). At MIT Sloan School, Professor Huang founded and runs China Lab and India Lab, which aim to help entrepreneurs in China and India improve their management.
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business 长江商学院
Oriental Plaza, 12th floor, Tower E3 (Ernst&YoungTower安永大楼)
1 East Chang An Avenue, Beijing 100738, China
Tel: 010-85188552
地址：中国北京市东长安街 1 号东方广场东 3 座 12 层
English map: http://www.orientalplaza.com/eng/prime/transport.htm
Chinese map: http://www.orientalplaza.com/gb/prime/transport.htm
Cheung Kong’s website at http://en.ckgsb.com
The FCCC has received several reports that correspondents’ news assistants are being targeted with email viruses. The senders were purportedly from the media organisations’ head offices. We would like to advise extra caution when opening such email.
Here is one recent example:
From: Pam [mailto:pam.bourdon@yahoo.com]
Subject: Trip to BeijingPlease can you both confirm that you received this e-mail I sent a few days ago. Given recent e-mail problems I am worried that it has gone astray yet again.
Dear,
I am the economics editor of The Straits Times. I plan to be in Beijing October 2nd, (arriving late evening) to research the annual world economy survey.
I was suggested that you would be able to help me fix up some interviews.
I attach a list of people I would like to meet with. I would be happy with just 6-7 interviews during my stay, so don’t worry if some of them are away. If a lot of my chosen economists are unavailable, I will have a few more names.
I think that they are all Chinese speakers, but please check for me as I find that discussing technical economics through a translator does not work very well.I will be staying at the China World Hotel, No. 1 Jian Guo Men Wai Avenue .
From past experience, it would be good if meetings could be grouped to minimise getting stuck in bad traffic!The subject I am researching is the implications for the world economy, and in particular the developed economies, of the increasing
global importance of China, India and the other emerging economies. How is the increased weight in the world of emerging economies affecting growth rates, jobs, wages, profits, commodity prices, inflation, interest rates, asset prices, capital flows and exchange rates? Who will be the winners and losers in this new economy?Please let me know if you need any more information.
And thank you in advance for helping me arange my trip.Best regards
Pam
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China strongly condemns the assault by unidentified people on three reporters working for Japan’s Kyodo News Agency.
According to Kyodo, the three journalists were attacked, hit and pushed to the ground on the evening of Sept. 18. Some of their equipment was also damaged.
The three were covering a rehearsal for the Oct. 1 National Day parade, an event carried out on Beijing’s biggest street in front of thousands of people.
In recent weeks, many Beijing-based journalists have been verbally warned by the authorities not to film the preparations or to open windows overlooking the parades. The legal basis for these warnings has not been made clear.
The FCCC calls on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to clarify, in writing, any rules it has regarding coverage of these events.
“This attack is a step backward in China’s efforts to open up the reporting environment. We urge restraint on the part of authorities, who must follow China’s own rules allowing foreign journalists to report freely,” said FCCC President Scott McDonald.
LOCATION: Beijing
TYPE OF INCIDENT: Violence, broken equipment
TOPIC: Oct. 1 National Day
NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: Kyodo news agency/Japan
The Japanese Kyodo news agency has reported that unidentified authorities in Beijing stormed the hotel room of three visiting journalists, beat them and damaged two computers. The agency says authorities stormed into the journalists’ room on Friday evening, kicked and beat the journalists about their heads, and forced them to kneel on the ground.
The incident occurred on a rehearsal day for the Oct. 1 military parade through central Beijing. More than a dozen FCCC members have reported receiving phone calls in recent weeks warning them not to photograph and/or interview people in or around Tiananmen Square in the weeks leading up to the anniversary. Several foreign news organizations were ordered not to film or photograph rehearsals, but no clear, written regulations have been issued by the Foreign Ministry and journalists have been given varying instructions.
Following is the text of Kyodo’s English news report:
BEIJING, Sept. 18 Kyodo – Chinese authorities assaulted three Kyodo News journalists in Beijing on Friday night when they were covering a rehearsal of a military parade the country will stage in the city on Oct. 1, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
The authorities kicked one reporter and two cameramen and hit their heads to make them knee down at a room of Beijing Hotel, which faces Chang’an Avenue that runs east to west past the Tiananmen Square area where the National Day celebrations will be centered.
The authorities, who stormed into the room around 8 p.m. without notice, destroyed two computers by throwing them out of the room to the corridor.
China’s Foreign Ministry ordered news organizations not to take photos when the country conducted a rehearsal Sept. 6, but the ministry has not issued such an order since then.
Just as the previous rehearsal, tanks, armored vehicles and missile-carrying vehicles traveled the central Beijing in the Friday event.
It will be the first time for China to hold a military parade since 1999, when it celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding.
