The 19th National Congress and reconsidering the past 40 Years after Reform and Opening up

Time：Dec. 13, 2017/ 7:00 p.m. 

Venue：International Conference Hall，Science Museum

Speaker: Tian Guo-qiang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, A & M University

Host: Feng Shuai-zhang, JNU

Sponsor: CPC publicity department, Cultural Quality Education Office, Economic and Social Research Institute

ABOUT TIAN GUO-QIANG

He is now the dean of School of Economics and Institute of Advanced Studies of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Alfred F. Chalk professor of Economics of Department of Economics in A & M University. He is the distinguished professor of Thousand Talents Program and chair professor of Humanities and Social Sciences Changjiang Scholars. His research areas include economic theory, incentive mechanism design, game theory, auction theory, matching theory, economic restructuring, China’s economy and so on. He has published over 90 papers in internationally renowned academic journals such as Economic Research Review, Economic Theory, International Economic Review, and Gaming and Economic Behavior, and published more than 80 papers in domestic authoritative journals, including more than 10 in Economic Studies. His book China's Reform: History, Logic and Future won the 16th Sun Yefang Economic Science Award. The book Advanced Microeconomics, published in 2016, fills the gap in the lack of Chinese elements of the microeconomics textbook. He has won the Thinker of the Year by CBN China's Best Business Leaders Award in 2016.

ABSTRACT

As the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up is approaching, it has led China to embark on an open road of strengthening the nation and enriching the people with market-oriented economy, opening up the most brilliant chapter of history in modern China. As an economy with a population of over one billion, China can sustain 40-year rapid growth. Its GDP ranks second in the world, and more than 600 million people are out of poverty that closes to the current size of the EU as a whole. It is a miracle in the history of world economic development.

On a new starting point, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has proposed an important historic record for new era, new mission and new journey, and comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society, basically realizing modernization, and then fully building a new socialist modernization power. In this lecture, Tian Guo-qiang will share his reconsideration of 40-year reform and opening up with us from three aspects: the imbalance of the economic and social development mode in the past, the institutional logic of the benign economic and social development, the direction of reform and the future reform of promoting benign development.

(This lecture is a public elective course and public academic activity for students in Jinan University)