Theme: The New Direction of China's Import Trade Policy Adjustment

Guest Speaker: Hao Wei (Beijing Normal University)

Time:  14:00-16:00, April 17, 2024 (Wednesday)

Venue: #Tencent Conference: 849-437-004

Organizer: Department of Economics

Guest Bio:

  Hao Wei, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the School of Economics and Business Administration of Beijing Normal University, Dean of the Department of International Economics and Trade, Director of the National Import Research Center, Chief Expert of the Major Projects of the National Social Science Foundation, selected for the National Talent Project, Outstanding Teacher of Baosteel, Famous Teaching Teacher of Beijing Municipality, Member of the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Professions, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Society of World Economics, Editor-in-Chief of the China Import Development Report The Report on China's Import Development”. His main research fields are international trade and world economy. He has published more than 200 academic papers in CSSCI/SSCI journals, and more than 40 papers have been reprinted in NPC Copying Materials and China Social Science Abstracts, etc. His monographs have been selected in the National Philosophy and Social Science Achievements Library, and he has published dozens of signed articles in People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Economic Daily, etc. He has published 5 monographs and textbooks. He has published five monographs and nine textbooks. He has presided over two major projects of the National Social Science Foundation, two surface projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, and dozens of projects commissioned by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Finance, and the Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China. He has been awarded more than 30 prizes, including Excellent Achievement Award for Scientific Research in Higher Educational Institutions of the Ministry of Education (second and third prizes), Beijing Outstanding Achievement Award for Philosophy and Social Science (first and second prizes), An Zijie Award for International Trade Research, and the Ministry of Commerce Award for the National Achievement Award for Research on Business Development. 

Synopsis：

  China has steadily ranked as the world's second largest importer for 14 consecutive years, but there are still problems such as low per capita scale of imports, small import dependence, and low share of imports of consumer goods, etc., and there is still much room for optimization of import trade policies. If China's per capita GDP in 2035 will reach the level of medium developed countries, according to the 2035 China's total GDP is expected to reach 42 trillion U.S. dollars, if China's import dependence is located in about 20%, then, in 2035, China's annual imports are expected to scale may reach 8.4 trillion U.S. dollars or so. Later, China's implementation of the active expansion of imports policy has a larger adjustment space, adjusting the structure of imported goods, actively expanding imports of consumer goods, increase the proportion of imports of consumer goods, is one of the directions of future policy adjustment. In the face of the current complex international economic and political environment, how to do a good job in import trade, to ensure the high-quality development of the domestic economy, and to deal with the international political and economic relations, is a long-term need to attach great importance to the work in the future.