China’s Financial Markets in the 2000’s and Beyond
­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Authors: KB Oh and Lilai Xu
Publisher: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press
ISBN: 978 7 5520 0063 4/F 137
Edition: 2012

Chinese Economics Society Australia (CESA) 24th Annual Conference
‘Balance and harmony in China’s economic development’
The Australian National University, July 8-9 2012

The conference is organised by the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at The Australian National University (ANU) Canberra. It is the 24th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Economics Society Australia (formerly known as ACESA). Details can be found at: http://ciw.anu.edu.au/conferences/.

On 10 July 2012, the China Economy Program within the Crawford School, in collaboration with the Rio Tinto–ANU China Partnership, presented the twelfth China Update. At this annual event, leading academics, policy makers and government representatives discussed the latest research on the Chinese economy. Over the years, the China Update has cemented its status as Australia’s premier forum for in-depth discussion and analysis of the Chinese economy.

Details can be found at:
http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/chinaupdate/

Chinese investment increasingly unwelcome in Australia

ABC Newsline

The Australian Opposition has jumped on public concern about China’s state owned enterprises investing in Australia, by declaring such practice is rarely in the national interest. But Dr James Laurenceson, president of the Chinese Economics Society of Australia, says Australia needs more Chinese investment, not less.

The Australian government has begun to question the motives of China’s state owned enterprises investing in Australia. But the Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, has gone one step further, declaring such investment rarely in the national interest. Dr James Laurenceson is the president of the Chinese Economics Society of Australia.

JCU Asian Market Forum 2012

Details can be found at:
http://www-public.jcu.edu.au/atjcu/townsville/JCU_111253

Professor Zhangyue Zhou’s interview following Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) Outlook 2012 presentation.

The 25th Annual CESA Conference was held at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, on July 15-16th, 2013. Please see the CESA2013 conference website for further details.

The Rio Tinto – ANU China Update was held for its eleventh time in 2011. Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, the Hon Wayne Swan MP, gave the keynote address and spoke of the strengthening relationship between Australia and China. Leading academics from around the world such as Deborah Brautigam, Ross Garnaut and Yiping Huang discussed many of the challenges and opportunities surrounding China’s rise on to the global economic stage. The Update coincided
with the launch of the China Update book, edited by Jane Golley and Ligang Song. The book is published by the ANU E Press, with the Chinese Social Sciences Academic Press publishing the Chinese language version.
More information on China Update 2011, including video and presentation slides, is available at www.crawford.anu.edu.au/chinaupdate. The book can be downloaded at http://epress.anu.edu.au/china_update_2011_citation.html

The China Center for Economic Studies (CCES), Fudan University and CESA held a joint international Conference on Transition and Economic Development: Economic Recovery and Structural Change at Fudan University in Shanghai on 19-20 September 2011. Keynote speakers included Albert Park, Wing Thye Woo, Jun Zhang and Funing Zhong.  A selection of papers is currently being reviewed for a special Symposium issue in the China Economic Review, co-edited by Jane Golley and Jun Zhang.