Venue: International Convention Center
Conference Agenda
Organizers: Silk Road Think Tank Association (SRTA)
Organizing Committee of China International
Fair for Investment & Trade (CIFIT)
Sponsors:
China Center for Contemporary World Studies (CCCWS)
Foreign Affairs Office, Fujian People’s
Provincial Government
Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, Xiamen
People’s Municipal Government
Xiamen Municipal Authority
for Conference Exhibition
Associate sponsors: Fudan University, Huaqiao University
Co-sponsors: Eco-Agriculture and Food Safety Forum for the Belt and
Road
Conference Agenda
Sept. 6th
Tuesday
Registration
18:30-20:00 Welcome
Reception
(Venue：Guoyan
Hall 2, International Conference Center Hotel)
1.
Welcome Remarks
Chair: Song Kening, Director
General of Foreign Affairs Office of Fujian People’s Provincial Government
Speakers:
Guo Yezhou，Vice-Minister
of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the
Council of CCCWS
Li Zhaoxing, Former Chinese Foreign Minister, President of China
Public Diplomacy Association, Honorary President of China People’s Diplomacy
Association
Xu Ningsheng, President of Fudan University
2.
MOU Signing between SRTA and Partners
Chair: Jia Yimin, President of Huaqiao
University
3. Issuing Certificate
Chair: Xu Yongquan, Deputy Director General of
CCCWS
Sept. 7th,
Wednesday
08:00-8:30 Registration
08:30 Opening ceremony (Venue:1E Hall, Conference
Center)
Chair: Xu
Ningsheng, President of Fudan University
Speeches by distinguished participants (8 minutes for
each)
Guo Yezhou，Vice-Minister
of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the
Council of CCCWS
Liang
Jianyong, Vice Governor of Fujian Province
Essam Sharaf, former Prime Minister of Egypt
Marzuki Alie, former Speaker of the People's Representative
Council, Indonesia
Bhokin
Bhalakula, former President of House
of Representatives, Thailand
Hassan
Ghafourifard, former Vice President
of Iran
09:30 Launching the Belt and Road Events Fund
Chair: Xu
Ningsheng, President of Fudan University
Special participants (Guo Yezhou, Liang Jianyong, Li
Zhaoxing, Li Xikui, Ni Chao，Xu Jiahao, Essam
Sharaf, Marzuki Alie,Bhokin Bhalakula, Hassan Ghafourifard,Bamdev Gautam), will
come up to the ball and touch it for launching the Fund.
09:45 Tea break
10:00 Plenary Meeting
Chair:
Guo Yezhou，Vice-Minister
of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the
Council of CCCWS
Speakers (6 minutes for each)
Li Zhaoxing, Former Chinese Foreign Minister, President of China
Public Diplomacy Association, Honorary President of China People’s Diplomacy
Association
Chandima
Weerakkody, Minister
of Petroleum Resources Development of Sri Lanka, former Deputy Speaker of
Parliament
Wei Jianguo, former Vice Minister of Ministry of Commerce, Deputy
Chair of Council of China Center for International Economic Exchanges
Robert John Carr, former Foreign Minister of Australia
Zhang
Yansheng, Secretary General of NDRC
Academic Committee and chief economist of CCIEE
Sione Vuna Faotusia, Minister of Justice, Tonga
Xu Lianjie, President of Hengan International, Hong Kong,
Yildirim Koc, Vice President of Patriotic Party, Turkey
Ye Feiwen, Deputy Director General of Provincial NDRC of Fujian
11:00 Free Discussions
12:00 Buffet Lunch
13:00-16:50 Parallel
Sessions
Panel I
Creating
sustainable and shared development opportunities
Wide
consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits are core to the building
of the MSR. It is imperative to set the orientation of the MSR in keeping with
the characteristics and demands of MSR countries, with emphasis on improving
their efficiency and capabilities and enabling development opportunities to
benefit more countries. This panel looks at the following issues: what
development opportunities the MSR can bring to countries; how to translate
these opportunities into actual productivity and sustainable growth; what
challenges there are in building the MSR; what sectors the MSR countries can
expect to see more and deeper connectivity in; how MSR projects can benefit
local societies and people, and how to give play to the role of Fujian as a key
link in the MSR, etc.
Venue: 2A02, Conference Center
Participants: (27 persons)
Robert John Carr, Yildirim Koc, Fazal Ur Rahman, Chen
Zhimin, Famiano Crucianelli, Phoak Kung, Lee Chack Fan, Roger Shapiro, Xu
Liping, Cai Zhenwei, Alka Acharya, Cem Gurdeniz, Li Yuan, Edy Prasetyono, Bouadam
Sengkhamkhoutlavong, Antonis Klapsis, Zhang Feng, Jaime Naval, Jia Yimin，Liu
Chenggong, Yong Hee Kong, Pan Hui, Chen Yugang, Xu Peiyuan, Lu Hua, Huang Qin,
Lv Xiaofeng
13:30-15:00 Section 1
Moderator:
Liu
Chenggong, Deputy Party Secretary of
CPC Committee, Fudan University
Speakers (8 minutes for each speaker):
Lee Chack
Fan, member of China Engineering
Academy, Director of the Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole of Hong Kong University
Chen Zhimin, Dean of School of International Relations, Fudan
University
Famiano
Crucianelli, former Vice Foreign
Minister of Italy
Antonis
Klapsis, Elected member at the
Steering Committee, European Network of Political Foundations
Xu Liping, Research Fellow of Institute for Asian-Pacific
Studies, CASS
Yong Hee Kong, Senior Research Fellow of Institute of Strategic and
International Studies, Malaysia
Roger Shapiro,
Beijing Representative of the 48 Group Club
14:30-14:50 Free Discussion
14:50-15:00 Comments
Commentator:
Lee Chack
Fan, member of China Engineering Academy,
Director of the Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole of Hong Kong University
15:00-15:10 Tea Break
15:10-16:40 Section 2
Moderator:
Famiano
Crucianelli, former Vice Foreign
Minister of Italy
Speakers (8 minutes for each speaker):
Fazal Ur
Rahman, Executive Director of
Pakistan-China Council, senior research fellow of Pakistan Institute for Policy
Research
Phoak Kung, Director General of Cambodia Institute of Strategic
Studies
Cem Gurdeniz,
retired Rear Admiral of Turkey
Li Yuan, Acting Professor of Institute of East Asian Studies,
University of Duisburg-Essen
Edy
Prasetyono, Executive Director of
ASEAN Studies Center, University of Indonesia
Bouadam Sengkhamkhoutlavong, Associate Professor and Director of Asia Research
Center (ARC), National University of Laos
Zhang Feng, Research Fellow in the Department of International
Relations, the Australian National University
Jaime Naval, Representative of Asia Center, University of the
Philippines
16:10-16:30 Free discussion
16:30-16:40 Comments
Commentator:
Fazal Ur
Rahman, Executive Director of
Pakistan-China Council, senior research fellow of Pakistan Institute for Policy
Research
Panel II:
Promoting concrete multiple-win
industrial cooperation
It has become
a common understanding that countries are supposed to give play to their
respective strengths to advance industrial cooperation and upgrade industrial
capabilities. Such approaches will prove to be effective means for enhancing
the value of national industrial chain, deepening regional cooperation and
building a community of interests. This panel looks at the following issues:
what barriers in systems and policies are holding back cooperation, investments
and trade among MSR countries; what interests and opportunities MSR countries
share despite differing levels of development; what issues in international
industrial cooperation deserve particular attention; how to best avoid
investment risks in multi-lateral projects; and how to build effective
financing mechanisms to ensure the sustainability of projects, etc.
Venue: 3A02
Conference Center
Participants: (26 persons)
Chandima Weerakkody, Shahab Enam Khan, Li Xiangyang,
Henry Tillman, XiongMeng, Adnan Akfirat, Wei Tengxiong, Mirza Shahzad Akbar,
Chen Zhanyuan, Peter Budd, Javier Alvarez, He Guangjun, Xu Yongquan, Xu Yifan,
Wu Libo, Ma Zhongwu, Mohammed Alim Gory, Chen Qi, Lin Chunyu, Dong Peiyi, Liu
Xiaodi, Zhang Minghao, Yu Hao, Lin Qingyu, Gao Yi, Chen Dongjing
13:30-15:00 Section 1
Moderator:
Xu Yongquan, Deputy Director General of CCCWS
Speakers (8 minutes for each speaker):
Li Xiangyang, President of Institute for Global and Asian-Pacific
Studies, CASS
Peter Budd, Fellow
of the 48 Group Club
Xiong Meng, Deputy Executive Director of China Industrial
Economic Association
Chen
Zhanyuan, President of Australia-Fujian
Industrial Business Association
Mirza
Shahzad Akbar, Executive Director of Foundation
for Fundamental Rights, Pakistan
Wu Libo, Professor at School of Economics and Associate Dean
of School of Data Science, Fudan University
Ma Zhongwu, Director
of Sri Lankan Studies Center, Beijing Foreign Studies University
14:30-14:50 Free Discussion
14:50-15:00 Comments
Commentator:
Peter Budd, Fellow
of the 48 Group Club
15:00-15:10 Tea Break
15:10-16:40 Section 2
Moderator:
Li Xiangyang, President of Institute for Global and Asian-Pacific
Studies, CASS
Speakers (8 minutes for each speaker):
Henry Tillman,
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Grison Peak Investment Bank
Wei
Tengxiong, Director of Board,
Tiandixing Electronics, Ltd., Quanzhou
Shahab Enam
Khan, Research Director at the
Bangladesh Enterprise Institute
Adnan
Akfirat, Chairman
of Turkish-Chinese Business Development and Friendship Association
Xu Yifan, Director of Institute for Logistics Studies, Fudan
University
Ha Quang Tuan,
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Hanoimilk Joint Stock Company, Vietnam
Javier Alvarez, Chairman of Casa de la Cultura China in Buenos
Aires, Argentina
16:10-16:30 Free Discussions
16:30-16:40 Comments
Commentator:
Shahab Enam
Khan, Research Director at the
Bangladesh Enterprise Institute
Panel III
Boosting people-to-people contacts and
cultural exchanges
As an
essential aspect of the MSR, connectedness is not only about “hard connection”
in terms of infrastructure, but also “soft connection” in terms of institutions
and rules as well as “human connection” in terms of people-to-people contacts.
This panel looks at the following issues: what are the effective means for
people-to-people and cultural exchanges; what types of people-to-people and
cultural exchanges are welcome to the people of MSR countries; what efforts the
MSR countries are to make to boost the people-to-people and cultural exchanges;
what issues deserve attention in the mutual learning between civilizations; and
what roles think-tanks, businesses, media and overseas Chinese can play in the
various aspects of the MSR?
Venue: 3C
Conference Center
Participants: (27 persons)
Indranana Abeysekera, KoKoHlaing, Muhammad Amir, Chen
Shihai, Xu Pixin, Victor Zheng, Zhai Kun,
Hamayoun Khan, NateeTaweesrifuengfung, You Runtian, Meron Medzini, Wang Rong,
Zeng Lu, Yang Luhui, Huang Chen, Liu Huailan, Huang Xinping, You Wei, Chen
Zhen, Liu Yong, Xiang Shimin, Zhao Xincheng, Zhao Xiaobo, Hou Zhiqiang, Zhao
Xindong
13:30-15:00 Section 1
Chair:
Zeng Lu, Vice President of Huaqiao University
Speakers (8 minutes for each speaker):
Indranana
Abeysekera, Founder and President of
Association for Sri Lanka China Social and Cultural Cooperation
Xu Pixin, Director of Hong Kong Center for Studies of Overseas
Chinese
Muhammad
Amir, Director of Pak Institute for
Peace Studies
Chen Shihai, Party Secretary of CPC Group and President of Fujian
Overseas Chinese Association
Natee Taweesrifuengfung, Director of School of Chinese Studies, Charoen
Pokphand Group, Thailand
Han Bo，President
of China Culture Foundation
Victor
Zheng, Assistant Director of Hong
Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
14:30-14:50 Free Discussions
14:50-15:00 Comments
Commentator:
Indranana
Abeysekera, Founder and President of
Association for Sri Lanka China Social and Cultural Cooperation
15:00-15:10 Tea Break
15:10-16:40 Section 2
Moderator:
Muhammad
Amir, Director of Pak Institute for
Peace Studies
Speakers (8 minutes for each speaker):
Ko Ko Hlaing, Chairman of Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Myanmar
Hamayoun
Khan, Founding Member and Director of
Pakistan Council on China
Zhai Kun, Professor of School of International Relations, Peking
University
Meron
Medzini, Senior Fellow of Sino-Israel
Global Network and Academic Leadership (SIGNAL)
Wang Rong, Professor of Research Institute of Indian Ocean
Economics, Yunnan University
You Runtian, Chief Special Correspondent in Beijing, Zaobao,
Singapore
Yang Luhui, Professor and Director of Institute of Asia-Pacific
Studies, Shandong University
16:10-16:30 Free Discussions
16:30-16:40 Comments
Commentator:
Ko Ko Hlaing, Chairman of Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Myanmar
17:00-17:40 Closing Ceremony
(Venue: 2A01, Conference Center)
Chair: Jia
Yimin, President of Huaqiao University
Presentations by the three
panels
Panel I:
Lee Chack
Fan, member of China Engineering
Academy, Director of the Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole of Hong Kong University
Panel II:
Peter Budd, Fellow of the 48 Group Club
Panel III:
Ko Ko Hlaing, Chairman of Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Myanmar
Closing remarks:
Guo Yezhou，Vice-Minister
of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the
Council of CCCWS
Evening: Capital-Projects Promotion Meeting by China
International Fair for Investment & Trade
Other Parallel
Events:
12:00-13:00
Provincial Leadership meeting with important
participants
13:30-17:00
Some of the participants attending Eco-Agriculture and Food
Safety Forum for the Belt and Road
15:30-16:30
Press Conference: 1C, Conference Center
18:00-20:00
Some of the participants attending the banquet for
important guest hosted by provincial leadership in the CIFIT
Sept. 8th
Thursday
Morning: Some of the participants attending the CIFIT
Opening Ceremony
Other participants touring Xiamen and Quanzhou
Afternoon: Participants Departing from Xiamen
