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The Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions and Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis co-organized a closed-door roundtable on China's recent economic slowdown and produced summary report of the discussion.
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Craig Allen, the President of the U.S.-China Business Council, spoke on the evolving dynamics of technological leadership between the U.S. and China and their implications for the rest of the world.
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Where is China’s economy headed and what are the implications for the rest of the world? Over 20 expert panelists weighed in over two days of discussions during the inaugural SCCEI China Conference.
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In an event co-sponsored by Stanford Libraries and SCCEI, Bo Li, Deputy Managing Director at the IMF, expressed his concerns on the global climate crisis and shared insights on the macroeconomic impacts of climate change and steps to mitigate the worst of the crisis.
SCCEI team members Huan Wang, Research Scholar, and Matthew Boswell, Associate Director of External Affairs, joined in conversation with 15+ experts on where, despite obstacles, opportunities can still be found to build business and economic ties between the U.S. and China.
The newly released report explains the benefits of U.S.-China scholarly cooperation to the two societies and the world at large, identifies the obstacles to greater exchanges, and outlines practical strategies for overcoming these challenges.
A look back at the policy-relevant topics covered by the SCCEI China Briefs series in 2023
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On November 15, 2023 Albert Park, Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), joined SIEPR, SCCEI, and the King Center on campus for a timely discussion on China’s economy and Asia’s rise.
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In this podcast Scott Rozelle Rozelle provides invaluable perspective on key topics impacting rural communities. It explores recent education reforms in China, including efforts to strengthen rural schooling and early childhood learning. And also delves into pressing employment challenges as many rural workers lack the skills to transition from manufacturing jobs to the service sector. Professor Rozelle emphasizes the urgency of implementing job retraining programs and safety nets.
Dorien Emmers, former SCCEI Postdoc, and Scott Rozelle, SCCEI Co-Director, wrote a piece featured in China Daily and The China Story highlighting the challenges of inequality and a possible path towards common prosperity.
We sat down with Professor Jennifer Pan to learn more about her journey to becoming a leading scholar on political communication and authoritarian politics and her recent research on information flow in China.
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MIT Professor Yasheng Huang joined SCCEI and Stanford Libraries to deliver a talk examining the factors behind the rise and the fall of Chinese historical technology and lessons for today’s China.
In the ariticle, "Peak China? Jobs, local services and welfare strain under economy’s structural faults" Rozelle is quoted saying, "'You don’t turn yourself into a high-income country with [close to] 70% of your economy in the informal sector.'”
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SCCEI Co-Director Scott Rozelle joined a select group of ten academics from the U.S. to participate in a Track Two diplomacy effort between the U.S. and China. Together, they traveled to Beijing where they met with 12 scholars from China to discuss the current state of scholarly exchange between the two countries, as well as strategies to improve it.
"China's Defeated Youth" published in The Economist featured Scott Rozelle's research on wage growth of blue-collar workers in China.
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The Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions and Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis co-organized a closed-door roundtable on the extent, causes, and implications of China’s current property sector slowdown and produced a summary report of the discussion.
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Scott Rozelle is quoted and featured in this article where he shares insights into education challenges in China.
SCCEI Co-Director Scott Rozelle is quoted in this article published by China File speaking about the reasons for and state of underemployment of rural workers in China.
SCCEI is pleased to announce the formation of the SCCEI Faculty Steering Committee. The committee consists of our two co-directors, Hongbin Li and Scott Rozelle, as well as three esteemed faculty members, Grant Miller, Jennifer Pan, and Xueguang Zhou.
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SCCEI’s Impact Team attended the 13th Annual China Business Conference held in Washington, D.C. in May 2023. The team shares insights from the conference on issues raised surrounding the troubled U.S.-China relationship.
This summer eight Stanford graduate students will advance their empirical research on China with financial support from the Stanford Center China’s Economy and Institutions.
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The Economist features Scott Rozelle's research on the impact of the hukou system on rural Chinese students and the high prevalence of cognitive delay in rural toddlers.
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Scott Rozelle visited Middlebury College to speak about his research combating mental health concerns among school children in rural China.