Transition and Opportunity : Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China's Future

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Multinational corporations (MNCs) have long played a crucial role in the Chinese economy. This role is one that is set to continue in the post-pandemic era as China works to transit to a high-quality growth model that is more sustainable and innovation-driven. With global experience and front-line involvement in some of the most pressing economic, technological, and environmental issues of our day, leading figures in MNCs and chambers of commerce are well placed to share insights that could potentially contribute to policymaking and development strategies so that everyone can “make the most” of China’s future.

 This collection of essay aims to share these invaluable insights with a wider audience, offering balanced and diverse perspectives from companies and advocacy groups working on a range of issues related to China’s domestic development, international economic cooperation, and China-US competition. These insights are useful not only for the wider business community, but also for academics, policymakers, students, and anyone trying to deepen their understanding of this exciting period of “transition and opportunity,” and make the most of China’s bright future.

Dr. Huiyao (Henry) Wang is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), ranked among top 100 think tanks in the world. He is also Dean of the Institute of Development Studies of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics of China, Vice Chairman of China Association for International Cooperation and a Director of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs. He is currently a steering committee member of Paris Peace Forum and an advisory board member of Duke Kunshan University. He served as an expert for the World Bank, IOM and ILO. He pursued his PhD studies at the University of Western Ontario and University of Manchester. He was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Visiting Fellow of Brookings Institute. His books in English include: Globalizing China (2012); China Goes Global (2016); the Handbook on China and Globalization (2019); Globalization of Chinese Enterprises (2020) and the co-edited Consensus or Conflict? (2021) .

Dr. Lu (Mabel) Miao is Secretary-General of CCG, Young Leader for Munich Security Conference (MSC), Founder and Secretary General of Global Young Leaders Dialogue (GYLD) program and the Deputy Director General of the International Writing Center of Beijing Normal University. She received her PhD in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Beijing Normal University and has been a visiting scholar at New York University’s China House and the Fairbank Center at Harvard University. Dr. Miao is a co-author of many Chinese Social Science Academy blue books and Chinese Social Science Foundation’s research project reports. Dr. Miao has published a number of books in Chinese, which detail China’s outbound business and global talent. Her latest publications in English are: International Migration of China: Status, Policy and Social Responses to the Globalization of Migration (2017); Blue Book of Global Talent; AnnualReport on the Development of Chinese Students Studying Abroad and China’s Domestic and International Migration Development (2019).