March 5, 2015
Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2015 Asia’s New Future: Towards a Community of Common Destiny
Thursday, March 26
07:00 - 22:00 Registration (Peilan Bridge Registration Center)i
07:00 - 14:00 BFA Golf Invitational 2015 (Dong Yu Island, BFA ICC Golf Club)
12:30 - 14:30 Luncheon A Conversation with Leo Melamed: Opening the Futures Market (BFA Hotel, Symposium) - Moderator - Speaker - Leo Melamed, Chairman Emeritus, CME Group
15:00 - 16:30 Session Inclusive Finance: New Models of Rural Banking (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - 10 years of rural banking reform in China - The new-type rural banking cooperatives - The next wave of rural land reform - Now that the role of the market has been defined as “decisive”, what’s the future hold for rural banking reform in China? - As a latecomer, what can China learn from good international experiences in rural banking? Moderator - LI Yang, Vice President, China Academy of Social Sciences Panelists - CHEN Zhangliang, Vice-President, China Association for Science and Technolog; former Vice Governor, Guangxi - LU Jiajin, President, Postal Savings Bank of China - WU Weixiong, Chairman, Hainan Rural Credit Cooperatives Union - WU Xiaoling, Vice Chairman, Financial and Economic Affairs Committee,
1 March 5, 2015
National People’s Congress; Former Vice Governor, People’s Bank of China
15:00 - 16:30 Session The Fight Against Corruption: Implications on the Relationship between Government Officials and Businessmen (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - President Xi Jinping warned against under-the-table deals between government officials and businesspeople which might involve corruption. The relationship, he said, should be as “tasteless” as water - The new Chinese government has launched a persistent campaign against corruption. How will this affect the relationship between government officials and the business community? - Some officials might choose to keep a distance from businesses and stand aloof from their legitimate concerns – the so-called inaction or “lazy government”. Will this be a problem? Moderator - YANG Rui, Anchor, CCTV Panelists - BAO Yujun, Former Vice-Chairman, The All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce - CHENG Yung-nien, Director, The East Asia Institute, The National University of Singapore - Jason HSUAN, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, TPV Technology Ltd - LI Zibing, Former Mayor, Shenzhen City - LIU Donghua, Founder, ZH Island - LONG Yongtu, Former Vice Minister, MOFTEC - A. Didar SINGH, Secretary General, FICCI, India; former Secretary of the Government, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs
16:00 - 18:00 Roundtable Media Leaders Roundtable Rebuilding Public Trust in Media & Journalism (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom C)
17:00 - 18:30 Session Internet Banking: P2P Self-Discipline & Regulation (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - P2P regulation seems imminent with the unexpected growth momentum of Internet banking. - Business models - Flexible regulation or mandatory compliance? - P2P in EU and North America: credit investigation, information disclosure and other regulatory means Moderator
2 March 5, 2015
- XIE Ping, Deputy General Manager, China Investment Corporation Panelists - CAO Tong, CEO, Webank - Chaomei CHEN, Chief Risk Officer, Lending Club - Gregory D. GIBB, Chairman & CEO, Shanghai Lujiazui International Financial Asset Exchange Co., Ltd - LIU Erfei, Executive Director, Digital China - ZHANG Wei, Chairman, China Create - Levin ZHU, Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
17:00 - 18:30 Session What’s Up with the Next Generation? (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - Much has been said, positive or negative, about the Second Generation – from heirs/heiresses to successful tycoons & prominent public figures to the disadvantaged children of the poor. It’s time to listen to the second generation themselves: What do they have to say? - The next generation: the key to successful succession - Generational mobility: equal opportunity and a level playing field for the disadvantaged and the poor Moderator - CAI Hongbin, Dean, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University Panelists - David DILLON, Director, Hawke Associates - Syeda Iffat HOSSAIN, Corporate Director, SAHCO International - Samir MODI, Executive Director, Modi Enterprises - REN Yong, Founder & Chairman, Yooli.com - Ariane DE ROTHSCHILD, CEO, Edmond De Rothschild Group - Albert TING, Chairman, CX Technology Corporation
17:00 - 19:00 Closed-Door Young Observers Roundtable (ICC, Level 1, Peacock 1) (Invitation Only) - Boao Forum for Asia invites young observers from its 28 Initial Countries to explore the most pressing issues confronting Asia, share views, find solutions and submit reports to Asian decision-makers Moderator - Sally WU Xiaoli, Deputy Chief, Phoenix InfoNews Channel
17:30 - 18:30 BFA Council of Advisors Meeting (ICC, Level 1, Peacock IV)
19:00 - 20:00 Welcome Dinner for BFA Members and Partners
3 March 5, 2015
(BFA Hotel, 1st Floor, Symposium Restaurant) (BFA Members & Partners only)
19:00 - 20:00 Buffet Dinner (BFA Hotel, Le Mistral)
20:30 - 22:00 BFA Members Club Mixed Ownership: Rekindling the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) Moderator - ZHANG Lifen, Associate Editor, Financial Times; Editor-in-Chief, FTChinese.com Panelists - Charles-Edouard Bouée, CEO, Roland Berger - CHEN Zhi Wu, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management - Anatoly Chubais, CEO, Russian Nanotechnology Corporation - LIU Shijin, Vice Minister, The Development Research Center of the State Council - SHAO Bingren, Former Vice-Minister, State Commission for Restructuring the Economy
20:30 - 22:00 TV Debate Young Leaders Roundtable (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D) - Boao annual gathering of 30 young leaders in government, business, academia and media - Offer the young leaders’ perspective and solution Moderator - LI Sixuan, Anchor, CCTV Mentors - ZHANG Yaqin, President, Baidu Young Leaders - Chad HURLEY, Co-Founder & former CEO, Youtube; Co-Founder & CEO, MixBit - Cedric HUTCHINGS, CEO, Withings - Steve J. KIM, Managing Director, i-KAIST - Ya LI, President, ifeng.com - Vladislav Martynov, CEO, Yota Devices, Ruaai - Quan REN, Founder, Star VC - Feng WANG, Singer - Master YUAN Zheng, General Counsel, RUBY Strategy Fund, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Meng ZHANG, Founder & CEO, Workshop for Global Youth Leadership
4 March 5, 2015
Friday, March 27
07:00 - 22:00 Registration (Peilan Bridge Registration Center)
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast Meeting Traditional Chinese Medicine Going Global (ICC, Level 1, Peacock 1) - The competitive edge of Traditional Chinese Medicine in healthcare - Challenges of Traditional Chinese Medicine going global Moderator - CHEN Mingming, President, Association of International Exchanges & Cooperation, China Traditional Medicine Society Panelists - HUANG Guifang, Vice President, Association of International Exchanges & Cooperation, China Traditional Medicine Society - LI Zhaoxing, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, China - WANG Guoqiang, Vice-Minister, The National Health and Family Planning Commission of PRC; Commissioner, SATCM - WU Yiling, Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering
09:00 - 10:15 Session Global Governance for Food Safety (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - Food safety & implications on human health - Food safety in China: hazards and responses - Responsibility of enterprises - The role of technology - Genetically modified food Moderator - ZHANG Weiqiu, Anchor, CCTV Panelists - Paul CONWAY, Vice Chairman, Cargill Incorporated - Victoria MARS, Chairman, Mars Incorporated - Mike McMullen, CEO, Agilent - Joanita Awilo Ochieng Pernet, Chairman, Codex Alimentarius Commission - Franck RIBOUD, Chairman and CEO, Groupe Danone - YU Xubo, President, COFCO - ZHI Shuping, Minister, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine
09:00 - 10:15 Session The Asset Management Boom: Innovation, Risks & Regulation (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B)
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- Emerging markets are embracing a boom in asset management with growing wealth at the national, corporate and consumer level - Innovative models of asset management - Sector-wise regulation vs universal banking - Risks of under-regulated growth Moderator - Jame Di BIASIO, Executive Director, Haymarket Financial Media Panelists - Reuben Jeffery III, CEO, Rockefeller & Co. - LAI Xiaomin, Chairman, China Huarong Asset Management - Ariane DE ROTHSCHILD, CEO, Edmond De Rothschild Group - WANG Dongming, Chairman, CITIC Securities - WANG Yincheng, Vice Chairman & President, the People’s Insurance Company (Group) of China Limited - WU Xiaoling, Vice Chairman, Financial and Economic Affairs Committee, National People’s Congress; Former Vice Governor, People’s Bank of China - ZHANG Hongli, Vice President, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
09:00 - 10:00 Press Conference by Hainan Province
(ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D)
09:00 - 11:00 Roundtable ASEAN-China Governors/Mayors’Dialogue (BFA Hotel New Wing) (Invitation Only)
09:30 - 11:30 Roundtable Private Sector Roundtable (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom C) - Boao Annual gathering of private sector leaders - Sum-up of the private sector growth in the past year - Challenges and solutions Moderator - Norman SZE, Managing Partner, Northern Region, Deloitte China Panelists - BAO Yujun, Former Vice-Chairman, The All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce - LIAO Xiaoqi, Former Vice Minister of Commerce; Chairman, China World Trade Center - ZHANG Xiaoqiang, Former Vice Chairman, NDRC - ZHANG Xin, CEO, SOHO China Ltd
09:30 - 11:30 Closed-Door China CEO Roundtable
6 March 5, 2015
(ICC, Level 1, Peacock 1) (Invitation Only) - Senior executives of major multinational corporations with significant investments in China will participate in an invitation-only, closed-door session to exchange views, experiences and ideas on adapting their current business models to the realities of Asia's dynamic developments. Moderator - XU Sitao, Chief Economist, Partner, Deloitte China Panelists - FANG Xinghai, Bureau Director, Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, China - Carlos GUTIERREZ, Former Secretary of Commerce, the United States
09:00 - 15:45 CEO Dialogue Australia-China Bilateral CEO Dialogue (BFA Hotel New Wing, Conference Room 1) (Invitation Only)
10:45 - 12:00 Session Virus vs Mankind (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - From the Black Death in the Medieval Age, the 1918-1919 Influenza, to HIV, SAR and Ebola, viruses have time and again influenced or even swayed human civilization in unexpected scales and ways. - Friend or foe, benefit or hazard? – from a philosophical perspective - New trends, new risks - Is it possible to set up a global Early-warning System to detect new diseases at an early stage or unexpected spread of old diseases? Moderator - YE Lei, China Office Chief Representative, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Panelists - Haruhiko HIRATE, Senior Vice President, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited - Jim O'Neill, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Chairman of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance - WANG Guoqiang, Vice-Minister, The National Health and Family Planning Commission of PRC; Commissioner, SATCM - WANG Jun, CEO, BGI - ZHANG Boli, President, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TUTCM); Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering
10:45 - 12:00 Session Smog and Health (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B)
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- Smog is a “red light” signal from the Mother Nature, a warning against the existing mode of development - How does it happen? - What have developed economies such as the UK done to get rid of the mess during or after industrialization? Moderator - LIANG Dong, Chairman, ZAN Clinic Panelists - Gene BLOCK, Chancellor, UCLA - Amory LOVINS, Founder, Rocky Mountain Institute - QIN Dahe, Former Administrator, China Meteorological Administration - Geof ROCHESTER，Chief Marketing Officer, The Nature Conservancy - ZHAI Qing, Vice Minister, Ministry of Environmental Protection - ZHANG Yue, Chairman, Broad Group
12:00 - 13:45 Luncheon A Conversation with Economists: Certainties & Uncertainties (BFA Hotel, Symposium) - The recovery is weak. All developed economies but the United States are doing badly. Emerging market numbers lose luster. We are yet to make technological breakthroughs that can lead the world into a new wave of growth. And, above all, the recurrent warning of a global financial crisis, sometime, somewhere. - Certainties and uncertainties in the world economy in the foreseeable future - Which economic theories, models and economists shall we resort to in addressing such complexities ahead? - New growth drivers Moderator - Panelists - FAN Gang, Director, National Economic Research Institute - Ajit RANADE, Chief Economist of the Aditya Birla Group - Jeffrey SACHS, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University - Paul SHEARD, Executive Managing Director; Chief Global Economist and Head of Global Economics and Research, Standard & Poor’s - ZHANG Weiying, Sinar Mas Chair Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University
14:00 - 15:15 Session World Investment Organization & the Global Investment Agenda (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - There are thousands of investment treaties, bilateral and regional. Such fragmentation has compromised the intended liberalization of cross-border investments
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- The investment version of WTO: Is this too remote to give it a try? - New tendencies of investment protocol Moderator - Steve HOWARD, Secretary General, The Global Foundation Panelists - CHEN Deming, Former Minister of Commerce, China - DING Xuedong, Chairman, China Investment Corp - Mari PANGESTU, former Minister of Trade and Industry, Indonesia - Patrick LOW, Former Chief Economist, World Trade Organization
14:00 - 15:15 Session Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangdong & Fujian Free Trade Experimental Zones: Small Beginning, Big Future (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - The Shanghai Experimental Zone sets a three-year deadline for itself. The experiments are two-fold: finding the right balance between government and business; accelerating reform through opening up. Experiences and models produced here are supposed to be applied nationwide. - One year and a half have passed. Which duplicable experiences and models has Shanghai found out? - Tianjin, Guangdong & Fujian Experimental Zones: differences from Shanghai Moderator - ZHU Ning, Deputy Dean, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance Panelists - AI Baojun, Vice Mayor, Shanghai - Hans-Paul Bürkner, Chairman, The Boston Consulting Group - Junichi UJIIE, Senior Advisor, Former Chairman, Nomura Holdings Inc. - WANG Shouwen, Assistant Minister of Commerce - Jonathan Woetzel, Director, McKinsey & Company - YAN Qingmin, Vice Mayor, Tianjin - ZHOU Hanmin, Vice Chair, Shanghai Committee, CPPCC
14:00 - 15:15 TV Debate The Other Side of Big Data (Outdoor Seaview Studio - Northeast of Wanquan Square) - Big data is no panacea. In theory and in practice, what can Big Data do for us, what not and what not yet? - Privacy protection - The virtue of forgetting in the Digital Age - Energy consumption Moderator - QIN Shuo, Chief Editor, China Business News Panelists - Leif JOHANSSON, Chairman, Ericsson
9 March 5, 2015
- NAM Kyung-pil, Governor, Gyeonggi Province, Republic of Korea - James Jedediah LERNER, President, Cloud Systems and Solutions, Seagate Technology - WU Hequan, Academician, China Academy of Engineering - WU Ying, Chairman, China Capital Group
14:00 - 15:45 Closed-Door Energy/Resources CEO Roundtable (ICC, Level 1, Peacock 1) (Invitation Only) - Oil price plummeting: what does this mean for conventional energy - Incentives for new energies in the depressed-oil-price era - Geopolitical and financial factors in energy security Co-Chairs - ZHANG Guobao, Chairman, the Advisory Board, National Energy Commission Moderator - Dennis BRACY, CEO, US-China Clean Energy Forum CEOs - Yousef Al-Benyan, Acting Vice Chairman and CEO, SABIC - Gregory BOYCE, Chairman and CEO, Peabody Energy - CHEN Qiutu, CEO, Huaxin Energy Group - Yves-Louis Darricarrère, President, Upstream & Member of the Executive Committee, Total - GAO Jifan, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Trina Solar Ltd - HE Yu, Chairman, China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPC) - LI Xiaolin, Chairman, China Power International - Ernie THRASHER, CEO, Xcoal Energy and Resources - XUE Liming, Chairman, Rayspower Group - Jeong Joon YU, CEO, SK Group - ZHU Gongshan, Chairman, GCL-Poly Energy Holdings
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 17:00 Session Smart Health & Wearables (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - Smart health technologies promise to reduce costs, increase prevention, and dramatically improve health and the quality of life globally. Wearables and other sensors will track data on everything from sleep to blood sugar. Big data/machine learning will help to reverse lifestyle disorders and to manage global outbreaks. - The possibilities are endless, but many questions remain: What ultimately matters is not the wearable device itself, but the data from the device. How do we ensure that the data from the devices around
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or on us is high quality and reliable? - What are the services and solutions that will truly change people’s behaviors to improve health? - How to rapidly globalize new breakthroughs and best practices? - How to ensure privacy of data, particularly patient-generated data? Moderator - Young SOHN, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Samsung Electronics Panelists - Derek ABERLE, President, Qualcomm Incorporated - Rod BECKSTROM, PwC Global Cybersecurity Advisor; Former President & CEO, ICANN; Former Director, National Cyber Security Center, USA; Author, the Starfish and the Spider - Sam HAWGOOD, Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco - Cedric HUTCHINGS, CEO, Withings - LIU Jiren, Chairman & CEO, Neusoft - Simon SEGARS, CEO, ARM - WANG Jun, CEO, BGI
15:45 - 17:00 Session Municipal Debt: Defusing the Simmering Local Government Debt Crisis (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - Local governments worldwide borrow money to finance deficits. There’s nothing wrong about that. However, some countries like the United States, can largely maintain a healthy balance sheet, while others, such as Latin American economies, are plagued with protracted debt crises. What makes the difference? - What’s special about local government debts in China? - Municipal debt trial in China - Rating municipal debts Moderator - TIAN Wei, Anchor, CCTV Panelists - Jean-Marie BOCKEL, Former Secretary of State for Defence and Veterans & President, The Association of Mayors of Large Cities in France - HUANG Qifan, Mayor, Chongqing City - LI Jiange Chairman, Shenyin & Wanguo Securities - LOU Jiwei, Minister of Finance, China - Bill OWENS, Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the United States; Former Vice Chairman for Asia, NYSE - Michael TAYLOR, Managing Director and Chief Credit Officer for Moody’s Investors Service in Asia Pacific
15:45 - 17:00 Session A New Chapter in Greater Pearl-River-Delta Cooperation (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D)
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- How do Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong define their roles and competitive edges in the Greater Pearl River Delta Cooperation? - The role of Hong Kong and Macau in the Guangdong Free Trade Zone - Guangdong's Comprehensive Pilot Zone for Financial Reform and Innovation and its implications - A GPRD partnership in the cross-border e-commerce industry to promote domestic consumption and SME growth - Infrastructure development and time-space compression in the GPRD Moderator - Victor FUNG, Honorary Chairman, Li & Fung Limited; Group Chairman, Fung Group Panelists - C Y LEUNG, Chief Executive, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region - Mari PANGESTU, former Minister of Trade and Industry, Indonesia
17:00 - 18:45 Closed-Door CEO Dialogue: Internet vs Traditional Business (ICC, Level 1, Peacock 1) (Invitation Only) - Traditional businesses are being transformed by the Internet with O2O becoming word of the day. Rather than drawing a distinct line between the New economy and the Old, are we seeing a convergence that blurs the line? - Which traditional industries and businesses will win out in the convergence? Moderator - HAN Ying, Founder & CEO, VIVA Panelists - Soul Htite, Co-Founder, Lending Club - Dave JONES, President, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Asia - LUO Jun, CEO, Tujia.com - Varsha RAO, Head of Global Operations, Airbnb - Shuning TIAN, Chairman, China Broadband Capital - WANG Wenbin, CEO, CCTV.com - YU Chengdong, CEO, Huawei consumers BG - ZHANG Bingjun, CEO, iCarsclub
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 18:45 Session Agriculture, Rural Areas & Farmers in the Fast-Urbanizing Country (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - Traditional agricultural countries such as China are different from the New Continental countries such as the United States. Where are the differences?
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- Food Security: Rethinking the 1.8-billion-mu Bottomline - Will agriculture remain primarily family-run? What else if not? - Land reform in rural areas: Will they be allowed equal status as urban land? - Urbanization of rural laborers in cities: addressing their housing, employment, social welfare and education Moderator - HAI Wen, Vice President, Peking University Panelists - CHEN Zhangliang, Vice-President, China Association for Science and Technolog; former Vice Governor, Guangxi - Stephen GROFF, Vice President, Asian Development Bank - LI Tie, Director, China Center for Urban Development (CCUD), National Development and Reform Commission - Edward SCHAFER, The 29th United States Secretary of Agriculture; The 30th Governor of North Dakota - SHAO Bingren, Former Vice Chairman, The State Electricity Regulatory Commission - Shoei UTSUDA, Chairman of the Board, Mitsui
17:30 - 18:45 Session Commodities: Ending the Super Cycle? (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - What has changed in the fundamentals supporting the Super Cycle? - China’s economic slowdown has a negative impact on the commodities demand. How serious is the impact? - The supply side: the rise of non-conventional energies - Energy saving and carbon emission reduction: long-term implications on the commodities market Moderator - Yanqing YANG, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, China Business News Panelists - Yousef Al-Zamel, Executive Vice President, SABIC - Gregory BOYCE, CEO, Peabody Energy - Yves-Louis DARRICARRERE, Executive Vice President, Total - Oleg Deripaska, CEO, En+ - Neville POWER, CEO, FMG, Australia - XU Lejiang, Chairman, Baosteel - ZHANG Guobao, Chairman, the Advisory Board, National Energy Commission
17:30 - 18:45 Session New Energy Vehicles: What’s All the Controversy About? (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D) - Roadmaps of new energy vehicles, the controversy, and the pros & cons - What role should the government play?
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Panelists - DAI Lei, General Manager, Infiniti China - Sehwoong JEONG, Executive Vice President, SAMSUNG SDI Automotive & ESS Business - Diarmuid O’Connell, Vice President of Global Business Development, Tesla Motors - SHI Lirong, President, ZTE - ZHANG Xin, Vice President, BAIC - ZHU Huarong, President, Chang’an Auto Group
17:30 - 18:15 BFA Board of Directors Meeting (ICC, Level 1, Peacock 4) (BFA Board Members only)
18:15 - 18:45 BFA General Meeting of Members (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom C) (BFA Board, Council of Advisors & Members only)
18:45 - 20:45 Dinner Global Economic Outlook 2015: A Dialogue with BFA Board of Directors (ICC, Level 2, BFA Main Hall) (Invitation Only) - Dialogue with the Board of Directors of the Boao Forum for Asia - First-hand understanding of developed & emerging economies, risks and policy initiatives Moderator: - ZHOU Wenzhong, Secretary General, Boao Forum for Asia Speakers - Yasuo FUKUDA, Chairman, Boao Forum for Asia; Former Prime Minister of Japan - ZENG Peiyan, Vice-Chairman, Boao Forum for Asia; Former Vice Premier, China - Mohamed H. AL-MADY, Vice Chairman and CEO, SABIC - Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad BADAWI, Former Prime Minister, Malaysia - Victor FUNG, Honorary Chairman, Li & Fung Limited; Group Chairman, Fung Group - GOH Chok Tong, Emeritus Senior Minister, Singapore - Sergey Nikolaevich KATYRIN, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation - Jae-Yong LEE, Vice Chairman of Samsung - Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN, Former Prime Minister, France - Mikio SASAKI, Honorary Chairman, Senior Advisor to the Board, Mitsubishi Corporation - Ratan TATA, Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons Limited
14 March 5, 2015
18:45 - 20:45 Buffet Dinner (BFA Hotel, Le Mistral, Asiana & Symposium)
20:30 - 22:30 FMG Diamond Cocktail Reception (Symposium Restaurant Balcony)
21:00 - 22:00 Dialogue A Conversation with Justin LIN Yifu: The China Miracle (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - In 1994, Justin LIN Yifu forecast, in his book “The China Miracle”, that the Chinese economy would overtake the United States in Purchasing Power Parity by the year 2015, which was largely dismissed as inconceivable at the time but came true in 2014 according to the latest studies by the World Bank and the IMF - Professor Lin will share with fellow delegates his obervations on the reform, growth story and prospect of China Moderator - HE Gang, Executive Editor-in-Chief, Caijing Speaker - Justin LIN Yifu, Professor and Honorary Dean, National School of Development, Peking University; Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce
21:00 - 22:00 Dialogue A Conversation with ZHU Min: China & the World (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - Moderator - Lally Weymouth, Senior Associate Editor, The Washington Post Speaker - ZHU Min, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
Saturday, March 28
10:00 - 11:30 Opening Plenary Asia’s New Future: Towards a Community of Common Destiny (ICC, Level 2, BFA Main Hall) Moderator - ZHOU Wenzhong, Secretary General, Boao Forum for Asia Welcome Remarks - Yasuo FUKUDA, Chairman, Boao Forum for Asia Keynote Speech - H.E. XI Jinping, President, the People’s Republic of China Speakers:
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- Asian and World Leaders
11:45 - 13:30 Luncheon Jiangsu Province (BFA Hotel, Symposium) (Invitation only) Speaker:
- LI Xueyong, Governor, Jiangsu Province
11:45 - 13:30 Buffet Lunch (BFA Hotel, Asiana Restaurant & Le Mistral)
13:30 - 14:45 Session India: Resetting the Reform Agenda (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - Which major reforms can be expected from the Modi government? - Short- and long-term implications of such measures - Define the Modi Economics Moderator - TIAN Wei, Anchor, CCTV Panelists - Jaspal Singh BINDRA, Group Executive Director & CEO Asia, Standard Chartered - Shekhar DATTA, Past President, CII; Member of the Board, Triveni Engineering and Industries Ltd - David LI Daokui, Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics & Director, Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE), Tsinghua University - Ajit RANADE, Chief Economist of the Aditya Birla Group - Henny Sender, FT's Chief Correspondent for International Finance - Jyotsna SURI, Chairperson, Bharat Hotels; President, FICCI - ZHANG Weiying, Sinar Mas Chair Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University
13:30 - 14:45 Session The Next Financial Crisis (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - There have been forecasts that the next financial crisis will be inevitable due to the complexities and flaws embedded in the existing financial systems, the Dollar Trap, the fact that regulations cannot keep pace with the market, etc. - Flaws in existing financial systems - How should emerging markets deal with the Dollar Trap? Moderator - Deborah KAN, Executive Producer, Wall Street Journal Panelists - JIANG Jianqing, Chairman, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
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- Gary W. PARR, Vice Chairman, Lazard - Steve SCHWARZMAN, Chairman & CEO, Blackstone - John ZHAO, CEO, Hony Capital - ZHU Min, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
13:30 - 14:45 TV Debate Disruptive Innovation (Outdoor Seaview Studio - Northeast of Wanquan Square) - Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen argues that disruptive innovations can hurt successful, well managed companies. These companies tend to ignore the markets most susceptible to disruptive innovations, because the markets have very tight profit margins and are too small to provide a good growth rate to an established (sizable) firm. - Define disruptive innovation - Disruptive vs Incremental Innovation - Opportunities for startups - Response strategies of big companies Moderator - CHEN Weihong, Anchor, CCTV Panelists - HU Zhenyu , Vice President , China Fortune Land Development Co., Ltd - Steve MILLIGAN, President and CEO, Western Digital - Taizo NISHIMURO, President and CEO, Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd; Adviser to the Board, Toshiba Corporation - Neil SHEN, Global Steward, Sequoia Capital - XIONG Minghua, Former CTO, Tencent - ZHOU Hongyi, Chairman, Qihoo.com
13:30 - 14:45 Session Where to Export? (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D) - Much has changed since the subprime crisis for exporters. Rising labor costs, appreciating RMB, competition from countries with even lower costs. All these have combined to make their life uneasy. - Homework that exporters need to do to find a way out - Looking for new destinations - Selling to the home market Moderator - WANG Huiyao, Founding Director General, Center for China and Globalization (CCG) Panelists - DONG Mingzhu, Chairperson, Gree Electric Appliances - HAI Wen, Vice President, Peking University - HUANG Yiping, Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University - JIANG Xipei, Chairman, Far East Holdings
17 March 5, 2015
- MAO Jihong, Founder, EXCEPTON de MIXMIND
13:30 - 14:45 Session The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: A Conversation with Leaders (BFA Hotel, Level 1, Oriental Theatre) - The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative and its key points - Tapping the potential of the blue ocean - Maritime connectivity Moderator - ZHANG Guobao, Chairman, the Advisory Board, National Energy Commission Speaker - YANG Jiechi, State Councilor, People’s Republic of China
13:30 - 15:20 CEO Dialogue Meeting Chinese Governors & Mayors (ICC, Level 1, Peacock 1) (Invitation Only) Moderator - Hans-Paul Bürkner, Chairman, The Boston Consulting Group Provincial Leaders - HUANG Qifan, Mayor, Chongqing City - REN Xuefeng, Party Secretary, Guangzhou City - ZHANG Hongming, Mayor, Hanzhou City
13:30 - 15:20 CEO Dialogue US-China Bilateral CEO Dialogue (ICC, Level 1, Peacock 4) (Invitation Only) Co-Chairs - Carlos GUTIERREZ, Former Secretary of Commerce, the United States - Chinese CEOs - DING Xuedong, Chairman, China Investment Corp - GUO Ping, Vice Chairman, Huawei Technologies - XIANG Wenbo, President, SANY Group - WU Xiaohui, Chairman, Anbang Insurance - ZHENG Changhong, Board Chairman, China CSR Group
13:30 - 17:30 CEO Dialogue Russia-China Bilateral CEO Dialogue (BFA Hotel New Wing) (Invitation Only) Co-Chairs - Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian
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Federation Russian CEOs - Gennady Timchenko, Chairman, Russian-Chinese Business Council - Andrey Akimov, Chairman, Gazprombank - Andrey Klepach, Deputy Chairman, Vnesheconombank (VEB) - Leonid Mikhelson, Chairman, Novatek - Andrey Bokarev, Chairman, Transmas Holding - Kirill Dmitriev, President, Russian Direct Investment Fund - Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman, Gazprom - Elena Burmistrova, General Director, Gazprom Export - Aleksandr Diukov, Chairman, Gazprom Neft - Dmitry Konov, Chairman, SIBUR Holding - Sergey Frank, General Director, Sovkomflot - Sergey Ivanov, Chairman, Sogaz - Svyatoslav Slavinskiy, Member of the Board, Vice-President, Rosneft - Aleksander Misharin, First Vice-President, RZD (Russian Railways) - Vadim Gurinov, Chairman, Stroytransgaz - Ivan Egorov, Crudex - Sergey Tsivilev, General Director, Kolmar coal mining company
14:45 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:45 Session G20 & Global Economic Agenda (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) Moderator - David Daokui LI , Dean of the Schwarzman Scholars, Tsinghua University Panelists - Cavit Dağdaş, G20 Deputy and Undersecretary of Treasury, Turkey - LOU Jiwei, Minister of Finance, China - Catherine MANN, G20 Deputy and Chief Economist, OECD - Cyril Muller, Vice President, World Bank Group - Joachim NAGEL, Member of Executive Board, Deutsche Bundesbank - YI Gang, Deputy Governor, People’s Bank of China - ZHU Guangyao, Vice Minister of Finance, China - ZHU Min, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
15:30 - 16:45 Session E-Commerce: Online to Offline (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - Traditional retailers: online weaknesses and offline strengths - E-Commerce companies: online strengths and offline weaknesses - The pain of transformation - Adapting to a different mentality and culture - Cross-border E-Commerce and the “Online Free Trade Experimental Zone”
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Moderator - JIN Jianhang, President, Alibaba Group Panelists - Andy DUNN, Founder and CEO, Bonobos Inc - Hugh JOHNSTON, Executive Vice President & CFO, PepsiCo - LIU Qiangdong, CEO, JD.com Inc. - Scott PRICE, Chief Executive Officer and President, Wal-Mart Asia - Michael TRESCHOW, Chairman, Unilever - ZHANG Hongming, Mayor, Hanzhou City
15:30 - 16:45 Session ASEAN Community: A Major Milestone for Asian Integration (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom C) - ASEAN announced that the ASEAN Community was to be completed within 2015. Which obstacles need removing on the way forward? - The level of ASEAN Community as compared with the EU - ASEAN economic community & RCEP, TPP and FTAAP Panelists - Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad BADAWI, Former Prime Minister, Malaysia - Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa, President, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia - QIN Yaqing, President of China Foreign Affairs University, Vice President of China National Association of International Studies - Norodom Sirivudh, Chairman of the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, Former vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs - ZHAO Xiaoyu, Vice President, China Development Bank
15:30 - 16:45 Session What’s Up with Water & Soil? (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D) - The United Nations had warned against water crisis developing into a serious social crisis in 1972. Forty years have passed. The water situation has only gotten worse. Water, if left unattended to, will be one of the defining global threats of the 21st century. - In April 2014, the Chinese Government published an alarming figure: 16.1% of the country’s soil is polluted. - Impact of human activities and climate change on water security - Pros & Cons on the South-to-North Water Diversion Project - Underground water pollution - Soil pollution and rehabilitation Moderator - HU Yihu, Anchor, Phoenix Satellite TV Panelists - Patrick BERGIN, CEO, African Wildlife Foundation - Stephen GROFF, Vice President, Asian Development Bank
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- HE Qiaonu, Chair, Beijing Orient Landscape - QIU Baoxing, Former Vice Minister of Housing and Urban/Rural Construction - Jeffrey SACHS, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University - WANG Hao, Academician, The Chinese Academy of Engineering, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research - Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-President, the Club of Rome
16:45 - 17:15 Coffee break
17:15 - 18:45 CEO Dialogue Meeting Chinese Ministers (ICC, Level 1, Peacock 1) (Invitation Only) Moderator - YANG Lan, Chair, Sun Media Group and Sun Culture Foundation Ministers - WANG Shouwen, Assistant Minister of Commerce - WANG Wenbing, Vice Chairman, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, The State Council - WANG Xiaotao, Vice Chairman, National Development Reform Commission
17:15 - 18:45 CEO Dialogue EU-China Bilateral CEO Dialogue (ICC, Level 1, Peacock 4) (Invitation Only) Co-Chairs - Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN, Former Prime Minister, France - ZHANG Xiaoqiang, Former Vice Chairman, NDRC Chinese CEOs - DING Xuedong, Chairman, China Investment Corp - MA Zehua, Chairman, COSCO
17:15 - 18:30 Session Shadow Banking: The Good and Bad (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - Governor Mark Carney of the Bank of England argued that shadow banking had accounted for 1/4 of the world’s financial assets. He went on to say that shadow banking excesses in emerging markets posed the biggest threat to the global economy - Shadow banking in emerging markets is defined differently from European and North American markets. How? - The justifiable side of shadow banking - Guarding against the flipside: systemic financial risks Moderator
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- Stephen ENGEL, Reporter, Bloomberg TV Panelists - Alexander BEGBIE, COO, Standard Life - CHEN Zhi Wu, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management - Paul CHIU Cheng-Hsiung, Chairman, Bank SinoPac - Peter COSTELLO, Chair, Board of Guardians, the Future Fund; Former Treasurer, Australia - Gail D. FOSLER, President, The GailFosler Group - Mark MACHIN, President, CPPIB Asia Inc. & Senior Managing Director & Head of International at the CPP Investment Board - XIE Ping, Deputy General Manager, China Investment Corporation
17:15 - 18:30 Session Entrepreneurs: Born or Made? (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - Traits of entrepreneurs - Getting started - Funding, talents & organization - Be a serial entrepreneur Moderator - Gloria AI, Founder of iASK Studio and Independent Business Host Panelists - CHEN Cheng-Hui, Co-founder, Wowprime - Peter FUFANO, Dean, The Saïd Business School, The University of Oxford - Chad Meredith HURLEY, Co-Founder and former Chief Executive Officer, YouTube - Vladislav Martynov, CEO, Yota Devices - K. K. MODI, Past President, FICCI; Chairman, Modi Enterprises - Yossi VARDI, Israeli Entrepreneur & Investor
17:15 - 18:30 Session 3D Printing, Digital Manufacturing & the 3rd Industrial Revolution (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom C) - Defining features of the 3rd Industrial Revolution - Technology readiness of 3D printing - Proven model of business - To what extent will it change traditional manufacturing based on mass production? - Responses of traditional manufacturers and manufacturing bases such as China Moderator - Panelists - Bernard CHARLES, President & CEO, Dassault Systemes - Jerry HUNG, Co-founder and President, ENDIVA Software, Inc
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- Ernesto OCCHIELLO, Executive Vice President, Technology and Innovation, SABIC - Bernd Reckmann, Member of the Executive Board, CEO, Life Science and Performance Materials, Merck - Simon SHEN, CEO, New Kinpo Group; Chairman, XYZprinting - Garrison ZONG Guisheng, Chairman & CEO, 3DP Technology
17:15 - 18:30 Session Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) & the New Development Bank (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D) - AIIB and the New Development Bank (also known as the BRICS Bank) have emerged as new players in the global financial system. To what extent will the Bretton-Woods system, with IMF and the World Bank at its core, be changed by these new forces? - Governance and business models of AIIB and the BRICS Bank Moderator - Steve HOWARD, Secretary General, The Global Foundation Panelists - Steve ALMOND, Global Chairman, Deloitte - Shaukat AZIZ, former Prime Minister, Pakistan - HU Huaibang, Chairman, China Development Bank - LI Ruogu, Chairman and President, Export-Import Bank of China - Josette SHEERAN, President and CEO, The Asia Society - Jenny SHIPLEY, Former Prime Minister, New Zealand
18:45 - 20:15 Dinner Moving Towards the East Asian Economic Community (BFA Hotel, Symposium)) - ASEAN countries are close neighbors to China, Japan and the Republic of Korea. Their economies are mutual complimentary and cultures are of the same origin or closed related. “10+3” has good reason to become the chief vehicle for East Asian Economic Integration - 10+3 and RCEP - Regional financial cooperation - Infrastructure connectivity Moderator - ZHOU Wenzhong, Secretary General, Boao Forum for Asia
20:30 – 21:45 Session Soft Landing & the New Normal of the Property Market (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - The property market will see less and less administrative intervention and be left largely to itself. The role of the government will shift towards providing housing for low-incomers. With property taxes in the pipeline and a national registration system soon in place, speculative capital is
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leaving the scene. - Will the property market achieve a soft landing as the government wishes, or will it end in collapse as some doomsayers assert, which will definitely have disastrous implications on the banking system and economic growth? - The new normal of the property market Moderator - ZHANG Lifen, Associate Editor, Financial Times; Editor-in-Chief, FTChinese.com Panelists - JIA Kang, Director, Research Institute for Fiscal Science, Ministry of Finance - Kam-Chung LEUNG, Chief Executive Officer, Nan Fung Group Holdings Ltd - LI Zhe, Chairman, The Riverside Group - PAN Shiyi, Chairman, SOHO China Ltd - ZHANG Yansheng, Secretary-General, The Academic Committee, National Development and Reform Commission - Andrew ZHOU, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Ping An Real Estate
20:30 – 21:45 Session Capital Market 2015: Reform Dividend & Investment Strategies (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - How will the capital market react to reform in the real economy in 2015? - Any big moves to expect on the reform of capital market itself? - Investors’ expectations and investment strategies Moderator - LIU Jipeng, Dean, Capital Research Center, China University of Political Science and Law Panelists - Fred HU, Chairman and Founder, Primavera Capital Group - Jiming HA, Vice chairman and Chief Investment Strategist for the Investment Management Division, China, The Goldman Sachs Group - LEE Sush-Der, Chairman, Taiwan Stock Exchange - Neil SHEN, Global Steward, Sequoia Capital - WANG Boming, Editor-in-Chief, Caijing - WU Xiaoqiu, Director, Financial and Securities Institute, Renmin University
Sunday, March 29
07:00 –08:30 Breakfast Women Leaders Dialogue (BFA Hotel, Symposium)
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07:00 –08:30 Breakfast Financial Leaders Roundtable (ICC, Level 1, Peacock 1) (Invitation Only) - Boao annual meeting of regulators, banks, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, PE/VC and investment advisors Co-Chairs - Peter COSTELLO, Chair, Board of Guardians, the Future Fund; Former Treasurer, Australia - Victor FUNG, Honorary Chairman, Li & Fung Limited; Group Chairman, Fung Group
09:00 - 10:30 Session Artificial Intelligence: Devil, or Angel? (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - Stephen Hawking called the developments into artificial intelligence “the best or worst thing” that could occur to humanity in the future. Similarly, Elon Musk warned that “we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that” - Despite all the benefits it is supposed to bring about, will artificial intelligence, as asserted above, get out of control with disastrous consequences for mankind? Panelists - Derek ABERLE, President, Qualcomm Incorporated - Ben GOERTZEL, Chief Scientist, Aidyia; Chairman, Artificial General Intelligence Society - Hsiao-Wuen HON, Chairman, Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group - Yossi VARDI, Israeli Entrepreneur & Investor - YU Kai, Deputy Managing Director, Baidu Institute of Deep Learning - ZHAO Yong, Co-Founder, CTO, Deep Glint; Co-Developer of Google Glass
09:00 - 10:30 Session The “New Normal” of the Chinese Economy (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - Potential growth rate - Transformation of macroeconomic policies and objectives - From investment- and input-driven to innovation-driven - New risks of uncertainty Moderator - Robert THOMSON, CEO, News Corp Panelists - BAO Yujun, Former Vice-Chairman, The All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce
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- FAN Gang, Director, National Economic Research Institute - Fred HU, Chairman and Founder, Primavera Capital Group - Nicholas R. LARDY, the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics - Justin LIN Yifu, Professor and Honorary Dean, National School of Development, Peking University; Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce - Jim O'Neill, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Chairman of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance
09:00 - 10:30 Session Transcending the Cold-War Mentality: A Fresh Outlook on Security Architecture in the Asia Pacific (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D) - Security architecture in the Asia Pacific: new approaches, new guidelines - Dispute control and crisis management - Defense cooperation and trust-building Moderator - Dongxiao CHEN, President, Shanghai Institute for International Studies Panelists - Timofey Bordachev: Chief, research programs of Council on Foreign and Defense Policy(CFDF) - Paul EVANS, Professor of Asian international affairs, The Institute of Asian Research and the Liu Institute for Global Issues, The University of British Columbia - Bates Gill, CEO of the United States Studies Center, The University of Sydney - Bob HAWKE, former Prime Minister, Australia - Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa, Chairman and Chief Executive, The institute of Strategic and International Studies(ISIS) Malaysia - WANG Yingfan, Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, China - Hugh White, Professor, The Australian National University
09:00 - 10:30 CEO Dialogue Japan-China CEO Bilateral Dialogue (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom C) (Invitation Only) Japanese CEOs - Koji MIYAHARA, Chairman, Nippon Yusen Kaisha Chinese CEOs - LIU Jiren, Chairman & CEO, Neusoft - REN Hongbin, Chairman, China National Machinery Industry Corp (Sinomach) - ZHU Gongshan, Chairman, GCL-Poly Energy Holdings
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09:00 - 12:00 Roundtable The Role of Think Tank in Policy-Making (BFA Hotel New Wing) (Invitation Only) Moderator - FU Ying, Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, National People's Congress
10:00 – 12:00 Roundtable Overseas Chinese Business Roundtable (BFA Hotel, Level 2, the Pavilion) - Boao annual gathering of 30 overseas Chinese business leaders from ASEAN economies, Hong Kong and Macau
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session What's the Next Move on Unconventional Monetary Policies? (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - In what circumstances can an economy get back to normal in monetary policy? - The United States was the first to exit QE among developed economies. Is the American economic performance sustainable? - EU is still sluggish. Will ECB’s unprecedented monetary easing stimulate the real economy? - The Bank of Japan has embarked on unprecedented monetary easing. The effects, however, have started to decrease. What will be the Bank’s next move? - With ample liquidity worldwide, which monetary policies should emerging markets take? Moderator - Peter COSTELLO, Chair, Board of Guardians, the Future Fund; Former Treasurer, Australia Panelists - Carlos GUTIERREZ, Former Secretary of Commerce, the United States - David LI Daokui, Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics & Director, Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE), Tsinghua University - Joachim NAGEL, Member of the Executive Board, The Deutsche Bundesbank - Hiroshi NAKASO, Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan - Jim O'Neill, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management - Jeffrey SACHS, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University - ZHOU Xiaochuan, Governor, People’s Bank of China
11:00 - 12:30 Session Doing Business the Internet Way
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(ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - Essence and defining features of the “Internet Way” - Has the essence of business been changed now we have the “Internet Way”? - “Internet Anxiety” of traditional industries and commerce Moderator - LU Binging, Founder, B-Doing Panelists - Soul Htite, Co-Founder, Lending Club - Seng Yee LAU, President of Online Media Group, Tencent; Senior Executive Vice President, Tencent Holdings - LIU Qiangdong, CEO, JD.com Inc. - MA Weihua, Chairman, Wing Lung Bank Ltd.; Former Executive Director, President and CEO, China Merchants Bank - Diarmuid O’Connell, Vice President of Global Business Development, Tesla Motors - PAN Shiyi, Chairman, SOHO China Ltd - ZHANG Yaqin, President, Baidu
11:00 - 12:30 Session Be a Good Global Corporate Citizen (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D) - What makes a good corporate citizen? - Why is it a must to be a good corporate citizen? - Does corporate citizen equalize CSR? - Case study: examples of good global corporate citizens Moderator - CHEN Yulu, President, People’s University Panelists - LI Zhaoxing, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, China - PENG Long, President, Beijing Foreign Studies University - ZHAO Qizheng, Former Minister, Information Office, State Council
11:00 - 12:30 TV Debate Connecting Asia: Dialogues with Thinkers (Outdoor Seaview Studio - Northeast of Wanquan Square) - Infrastructure connectivity: The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, the Silk Road Economic Belt and other connectivity initiatives in the region - Financial cooperation - Fragmentation and integration of FTAs Moderator - YANG Rui, Anchor, CCTV Panelists - FAN Gang, Director, National Economic Research Institute - Stephen GROFF, Vice President, Asian Development Bank - Justin LIN Yifu, Professor and Honorary Dean, National School of
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Development, Peking University; Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce - Rick NIU. President & CEO, Starr Strategic Partners
12:30 - 14:15 Luncheon Brainstorming: Rethinking Global Governance (BFA Hotel, Symposium) - World Bank & IMF Reform - WTO & the future of the Doha Round - The Role of the United Nations Moderator - TIAN Wei, Anchor, CCTV Panelists - William DANVERS, Deputy Secretary General, OECD - Thomas FRIEDMAN, New York Times columnist, Author, The World is Flat - Pascal LAMY, Former Director General, World Trade Organization - LIM Boon Heng, Chairman, Temasek Holdings - ZHU Min, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
14:30 – 16:00 Session BRICS Chief Justices’ Dialogue Pollution Control: the Power of Judiciary (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) Moderator - BAI Yansong, Anchor, CCTV Panelists - Jagdish Singh KHEHAR, Judge, Supreme Court of India - V. LEBEDEV，Chief Justice, Supreme Court, Russia - Ricardo LEWANDOWSKI, President, The Federal Supreme Court, Brazil - Mandisa Muriel Lindelwa Maya, Justice, Supreme Court Appeal of South Africa - ZHOU Qiang, Chief Justice; President, the Supreme People’s Court, China
14:30 - 16:00 Session University Presidents’ Dialogue: The Future of Education (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - What kinds of talents are needed in the 21st Century? What has held this back in our education system? - The government-society-market nexus - Entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity - Hard nuts in the education reform - Case study: Inspiring experiments Moderator - John HEARN, Executive Director, The Worldwide Universities Network
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Panelists - Gene BLOCK, Chancellor, UCLA - Inwon CHOUE, President, Kyung Hee University - John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University, United States - Adam FALK, President, Williams College, United States - Kumara Hirimburegama, Vice Chancellor, University of Colombo - JIANG Sixian, Chairman of the University Council, Shanghai Jiaotong University - PENG Long, President, Beijing Foreign Studies University - Michael SPENCE, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Sydney
14:30 - 16:00 Session Dialogue of Civilizations: Harmony Amid Diversity (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D) - Museums epitomize the best of a country/nation’s history, culture and civilization. Curators from some of the world renowned museums, leaders of foundations and masters of arts are gathered together to share their insights on the diversity of cultures/civilizations and on what they have in common Moderator - XU Gehui, Anchor, Phoenix TV Panelists - ANG Jian, Chairman, Boao Asia Media & Entertainment - FENG Mingzhu, President, Taipei Palace Museum - GONG Liang, President, Nanjing Museum - David GREEN, Chairman, The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts - Jean-Luc MARTINEZ, President-Director, Louvre - SHAN Jixiang, President, Palace Museum - WAN Jie, President, Artron - WANG Yin, Founder, Dunhuang Culture Promotion Foundation - ZHAO Xu, Executive Director, Poly Auction
14:30 – 16:30 Roundtable BFA Cross-Straits Business Roundtable: New Impetus for Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation (BFA Hotel, Level 2, the Pavilion)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Session Peace & Harmony: the Enlightenment of Religions (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom A) - Buddhism, Islamism and major religions share one thing in common: advocacy for peace, harmony & non-violence. - This session will offer CEOs a rare opportunity to listen to masters of religions and get enlightened in soul and mind.
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Moderator - LIANG Dong, Chairman, ZAN Clinic Panelists - Adilijiang Ajikelimu, Vice President, The China Islamic Association - Master Hsing Yun, Founding President, World Headquarters, Buddha's Light International Association - Paul Kwong, Archbishop, The Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (Anglican) - LIU Changle, Chairman & CEO, Phoenix TV - Din Syamsuddin, General Chairman, Majelis Ulama Indonesia - Master Yin Shun, Vice President, The Buddhist Association of China, Abbot of Hong Fa Temple in Shenzhen
16:30 – 18:00 Session Internet Governance (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom B) - Guidelines and principles of Internet governance - Multiple stakeholders and the role of government - Sovereignty in the cyber space and global governance - Net neutrality
16:30 – 18:00 Session South China Sea: Dual Track and Win-win Cooperation (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom C) - Define the Dual Track Approach - Progress in executing the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea - How far are we from the Code of Conduct (CoC) on the South China Sea? Moderator - FU Ying, Chairperson, The Foreign Affairs Committee, The 12th National People’s Congress Panelists - B. A. Hamzah, Researcher, The Maritime Institute of Malaysia - Abraham D. Sofaer, Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution of Standford University - Jusuf Wanandi, Co-Founder & Senior Fellow， The Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia - Wu Shicun, President, National Institute for South China Sea Studies - Zheng Yongnian, Director of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
16:30 – 18:00 Session Public Figures & Social Responsibility (ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D) - Do public figures shoulder greater moral and social responsibility given their high profile and influence on the general public?
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- With great power comes great responsibility. Public figures have much larger influence than ordinary people. How can they leverage such influence to help make the world a better place? Moderator - Anthony Yuen, Chief Commentator, Phoenix Satellite TV Panelists - HUANG Xiaoming, Actor - SHAN Jixiang, President, Palace Museum - SU Mang, President & CEO, Trends Media Group - YU Dan, Professor, Beijing Normal University
18:15 - 18:45 Closing Press Release
19:00 - 20:30 Boao Cultural Evening & Closing Gala (ICC, Level 2, BFA Main Hall)
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