“Thirty Years of Reform: China’s Path to Harmonious Development,” Beijing, China, November 17-18, 2008


Thirty Years of Reform: China’s Path to Harmonious Development

Beijing, China
November 17 - 18, 2008

Schedule:

Monday, November 17, 2008

7:30 – 8:30
Breakfast
9:00 – 9:20
Welcoming remarks
President of Renmin University/China
James A. Dorn, Vice President of Cato Institute (Video lecture)
9:20-10:00
Miracle without design
Speakers:
Gao Shangquan, president of CSER
Introduction by prof Mao Shoulong
10:00-10:50
The evolution of property rights
Zhou Qiren, Prof, Peking University (Farmers change China)
Zhang Shuguang, China Academy of Social Sciences (Enterprise Reform)
10:50 – 11:00
Tea/Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30
China development and globalization
Mao Yushi, Unirule Institute
11:30-12:00
The Fiscal Federalism in China
Liu Shangxi Senior scholar, Public Finance Institute
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch: Free market economy and Harmonious society
James A. Dorn
13:30 – 14:00
China: The Miracle and its Challenges in future
Tom Palmer
14:00-18:00
Land Reform in China
14:00-14:40
Labor mobility and its Consequences
Hu Jingbei, Tongji University
Comments: Li Shi,
14:40-15:30
Land Tenure System
Liu Shouying
15:30 – 15:40
Tea/Coffee break
15:40-16:20
Land Transfer Reform
Liu Xianfa
16:20-17:00
Land Finance: Prof He Guangwen.
17:00 – 17:30
Land Tax:
Zhu Qiuxia,
17:30 – 18:10
Land reform and Farmer Association:
Chen Lin
18:10-18:20
Concluding: Feng Xingyuan
18:00 –20:00
Dinner: Cato and China video twenty minutes
Lecture: Mao Shoulong

Tuesday, November 18: The Next Thirty Years

7:30 – 8:30
Breakfast
9:00 – 12:00
Case law and China judicial reform
9:00 – 9:45
Theoretical foundation for Common Law oriented reform in China
Liu Haibo.
9:45-10:30
Common Law and its capacity to adjust relationship between Central
and local government

Zhu Weiyi, Visiting Professor at China Academy of Social Sciences, JD from Law school of Columbia University
10:30 –10:40
Tea Break
10:40-11:20
Case Law Advantage from Practice Perspective:
Mr Wu Ge, Lawyer
11:20-12:00
Case Law and Land conflicts:
Li Honghai
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch Speech: the Sources of China Economic
Miracle, Feng Xingyuan.
13:30-14:20
Free market Environmentalism:
Sheng Hong
14:20-15:00
Health Care System
Zhao Hongwen 

Enterpreneurship
Chair Zheng Zhigang, Shan Liwei, Wang Peng, Fan Jianjun

15:00-15:10
Tea Break
15:10-16:40
Local Autonomy and fiscal system:
Mao Shoulong, Zhu Qiuxia, Li Honglei, Liu haibo 

Labor Mobility and urbanization:
Hu Jingbei, Xing Guoqiang, Fu Shihe and Feng Gequn

16:40-18:10
Civil society:
Wang Chunguang, Xu Yongguang, Beiye 

Enterpreneurship:
Zheng Zhigang, Shan Liwei, Wang Peng, Fan Jianjun

18:10 – 18:20
Concluding: Tom Palmer
18:20-20:20
Dinner lecture:
Property rights, common law and political economy:
Andrew Morris, Feng Xingyuan