Turning Point Series 中国分水岭

Organizer: Elya Zhang, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center

Monday, February 2, 2009 4:00 pm
Turning Point Series 中国分水岭
Should Provincial Autonomy Significantly Increase for EconomicResources?
中央和地方的财权应如何分割
Working Language: Chinese 中文演讲, 中文讨论
Speaker: Peijun Duan 段培君, Professor of Philosophy and Strategy Study; Executive Director, Center for Social Development, Central Party School of China; Research Fellow, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School.
Discussant: Huanzhen Luo 罗欢镇, Associate Professor of Economics, Tokyo Keizai University; Research Fellow, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
Location: CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153, Cambridge, MA

About the Talk: Professor Peijun Duan addressed the following topics:

• The Tax Sharing System (TSS) since 1994 九四年以来的分税制
• The current Fiscal Transfers System 现行的财政转移支付制度
• Balancing public service levels in poor and rich provinces 平衡穷省与富省的公共服务水平
• Prospects for Fiscal Federalism in China 中国式的财政联邦主义

Monday, March 16, 2009 4:00 pm
Turning Point Series 中国分水岭
Does Constitution Matter to the Average Chinese Citizen? 宪法离我们的生活有多远?
Yawen Xu 徐亚文, Professor of Law, Wuhan University
Discussant: Gangqiao Wang, SJD, Harvard Law School; former faculty member at Fudan University Law School

About the Talk: Professor Yawen Xu discussed:

• The Qi Yulin Case in 1999-2001—the first case in China in which the Constitution was cited to protect the plaintiff’s basic rights. 齐玉苓诉陈晓琪案
• What is constitutional review in China?
中国的违宪审查制度?
• Which one is preferable: citizenship without constitutional rights, or constitutionalism without real citizenship? 没有宪法的公民生活, 还是没有公民的宪法生活?

About the Speaker: Yawen Xu is a professor of law at Wuhan University. He is the president of the Jurisprudence Association of Hubei Province, as well as the chief consultant of the Center for the Protection of the Rights of Disadvantaged Citizens at Wuhan University. Currently, Professor Yawen Yu is a Research Fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

Monday, April 6, 2009 4:15 pm
Turning Point Series 中国分水岭
Should China’s Banking System Be Privatized? 中国国有银行股份制改革的困境何在?
Ping He 何平

About the Talk:

Backdrop, 1978-2003: Commercial banking reform in three phrases
股份制改革的起点, 1978-2003: 商业银行改革的三个阶段

Process, 2003-2009: the three-way game among government, state-owned bank and enterprise; IPO and the true commercialization of state-owned banks
股份制改革的启动, 2003-2009: 企业金融政府三方的博弈, 上市及国有银行的真正商业化.

Future, 2009-: Is the management really independent of the government? How competitive are these new banks?
股份制改革的展望, 2009-: 公司治理机制有效转变了吗? 国有银行竞争力几何?

About the Speaker: Ping He is Professor of Economics and the Deputy Dean of the
School of Finance at Renmin University of China. He is also a Trustee of Chinese Society of Economic History and a Trustee of Chinese Association for Japanese Economics. Currently, Professor He is a Visiting Fellow at the Committee on Business and Economics
at the Harvard Business School.

About the Discussant: Yongzhen Yu is Associate Professor of Economics and Associate Director of the Macroeconomics Division at the Chinese Central Party School. Currently, he is a Visiting Scholar at the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Monday, May 11, 2009   4:15 pm
Turning Point Series 中国分水岭
Should China Continue Its Nuclear Buildup? 中国的核发展走向何方？
Hui Zhang 张会, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom,
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

About the Talk: Hui Zhang spoke about:
•China and nuclear arms control 中国的核军备控制
•China’s policy on nuclear nonproliferation 中国的核不扩散政策
•New proposals on a world free of nuclear weapons 无核世界新倡议
•China’s nuclear doctrine, posture and modernization 中国的核信条，核态 势与核现代化

About the Speaker: Dr. Hui Zhang is a Research Associate in the Project on Managing the Atom in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He obtained his PhD in nuclear physics from Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics in 1996 and has been awarded postdoctoral fellowships from Princeton University, Social Science Research Council, and the MacArthur Foundation.  His researches include verification techniques of nuclear arms control, the control of fissile material, nuclear terrorism, China’s nuclear policy, nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation, policy of nuclear fuel cycle, and reprocessing.

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