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CKGSB’s Chair Professor Li Haitao analyzed why a foreign exchange crisis is unlikely to happen in China in an article in popular Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo. Instead, he noted that economic fundamentals should be improved to overcome existing problems.

CKGSB Finance Department Chair Henry Cao guided an incisive exploration of current trends in business and finance in China as panel moderator at the Global China Connection Summit 2016 at the TPK Conference Center in Midtown Manhattan.

CKGSB Professor of Finance Gan Jie’s latest quarterly survey on China’s industrial economy was cited in all three of The Wall Street Journal’s daily editions, Canada’s Globe and Mail and an array of Chinese-language outlets.

As the Chinese economy slows, consumers’ spending priorities change and markets saturate, it becomes more important than ever for companies to rethink their strategies and innovate. It is against this backdrop that WPP organized the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Chinese Brands forums in Beijing and Shanghai, on March 21 and 24 respectively, in partnership with the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB).

CKGSB is widely known for having the most powerful alumni network in China and many of the school’s EMBA alumni played an active role in the recently concluded ‘Lianghui’ parliamentary sessions. Find out what they had to say about topics including agriculture, e-commerce, Internet monopolies, recycling, financial reforms and entrepreneurship.

The recent annual gathering of China’s two parliamentary bodies, known as ‘Lianghui’, recently concluded in the capital, with topics including the economy, Internet Plus and access to education all being discussed. CKGSB professors share their views on some of the hottest topics.

CKGSB Economics Professor Li Wei, creator of the CKGSB Business Conditions Index (BCI), tells a Knowledge Series audience that China must accelerate its planned economic reforms to put manufacturing resources to better use as the nation’s debt and overcapacity problems worsen.

Eight years after the first wave of Chinese bankers returned home from Wall Street, another group is following suit – and CKGSB Professor of Finance Cao Huining says that opportunity awaits when they arrive.

CKGSB’s pioneering Understanding China’s Next Move course is back by popular demand, with this year’s program centering on the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship, areas that have become central to the government’s future strategy.

Women who speak up at work can rise to executive positions in companies where men make the major career-advancement decisions, an audience at a special CKGSB Knowledge Series panel discussion to commemorate International Women’s Day, Women Ascending, from Base Camp to Summit: Tools for the Climb, was told.

Alan Yan, founder of AdChina, the Chinese Internet marketing firm recently acquired by Alibaba Group, told a CKGSB Knowledge Series audience that the online-to-offline (O2O) market remains a “huge” China investment opportunity, despite a shakeout that has raised concerns that the O2O boom is a mirage.

The Wall Street Journal’s sister company Dow Jones Newswires publishes a dedicated article on Prof Li Wei’s Business Conditions Index, a monthly survey that takes the pulse of some of China’s leading entrepreneurs and executives.