Category Archives: News

Shared Destiny – China Story Yearbook 2014 – Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), ANU, launched its annual China Story Yearbook 2014, called Shared Destiny, which is freely downloadable … Continue reading →

The CESA-HFUT Joint Conference – The Fourth Wanjiang River Economic Forum was successfully held at Hefei University of Technology in Hefei, China on 17-18 Sept 2015. The conference has a theme, “New Sources of Growth and Challenges in China”, and … Continue reading →

The 27th CESA Annual Conference was successfully held at University of Wollongong on 12-14 July 2015.  The winners of best paper award are Qin Gou, Yiping Huang and Jianguo Xu, “Capital account liberalization and economic growth revisited: Different effects of … Continue reading →

Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies and Centre for Asian Business and Economics China Symposium China’s Domestic Transformation in a Global Context The China Symposium brings together leading academics and policy advisors to discuss the latest research on the Chinese economy. … Continue reading →

Guonan Ma:  A compelling case for Chinese monetary easing Chinese monetary policy was excessively tight in 2014 but started loosening in late 2014, in an attempt to cushion growth, facilitate rebalancing, support reform and mitigate financial risk. Read more at … Continue reading →

The aging dollar peg: time for the PBC to bid it farewell – the Chinese economy is simply too big to remain tied to this once useful monetary anchor — it’s time to let it go. by Guonan Ma on … Continue reading →

Has a stronger renminbi contributed to financial tightening? – Yes and no: a stronger RMB on its own tightens China’s financial conditions but is not the principal cause of its observed broad-based financial tightness by Guonan Ma on 17th December … Continue reading →

Australia and China after their FTA 18 November 2014 Author: Peter Drysdale, East Asia Forum The past week has seen big breakthroughs in Asia Pacific economic diplomacy. At the APEC summit, Xi Jinping and Shinzo Abe broke the diplomatic ice … Continue reading →

China’s third quarter figures beat expectations but fall short of a knockout 11 November 2014 Author: James Laurenceson, ACRI The global economy breathed a sigh of relief last month with the release of China’s third quarter growth numbers. The result … Continue reading →

A compelling case for Chinese monetary easing – timely and measured monetary accommodation facilitates reform, supports growth, cushions structural adjustment and mitigates financial risk. by Guonan Ma on 8th October 2014 Despite unmistakable signs of messy but meaningful monetary easing … Continue reading →