1. November 4, Thursday Morning, 9:00 AM -12:30 PM
Conference Room: IMF HQ1-BL-702

Registration: 9:00 AM

Opening Remarks (9:30-10:00AM)
(Chair: Hua Wang, President, Chinese Association for Public Affairs)

Invited Speakers: Zhang Yesui, Chinese Ambassador to the United States; He Jianxiong, China ED, IMF; Yang Shaolin, China ED, World Bank

Forum on Green Business for Development in China”

Panel on Green Finance (10:00-11:00AM)

• Robert Milton Hunt, Lead Financial Officer, World Bank, “World Bank Treasury’s Initiatives in Carbon Finance”
• Yibin Mu (牟益斌), Sr. Financial Economist , World Bank, “Green Finance for Sustainable Development”

Panel on Green Technology (11:00 AM-12:30 PM)
(Chair: Chao Wang, Vice President, Chinese Environmental Scholars and Professionals Network)

• Christopher R. Ryan, and President, Geo-Solutions Inc., “The Impact of Chinese Regulations on the Use of Innovative Technology for Site Remediation”
• Dr. Nora F. Savage, Nano Team Lead, Office of Research and Development, US EPA, “Nanotechnology: Extending Towards Societal Aspects”
• Tom Lewis, Senior Vice President, Louis Berger Group, Inc. “The Role of Hydrogen Technology as a Clean, Zero Emission Alternative for Solar/Wind Energy Storage, Vehicle/Generator Fuel, and Local Emergency Power”
• Dr. Jianchang Ye, Senior Process Engineer, Brentwood Industries Inc.; Associate General Manager - Shanghai Zhaoyuan Chemicals Co., LTD, “Fixed Film Technologies with Structured Sheet Media for Wastewater Treatment”

2. November 4, Thursday Afternoon, 2:00-5:30 PM
Forum on U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate
Conference Room: IMF HQ1-BL-702
(Chair: Zhihong Zhang, Senior Climate Change Specialist, GEF)

Panel on Energy:

• William Chandler, President, Transition Energy
• Xiaodong Wang, Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank

Panel on Climate:

• Robert Dixon, Team Leader, GEF
• David Wheeler, Sr. Fellow, Center for Global Development
• Pamela Franklin, Team Leader, Climate Change Division, US EPA
• Michael Davidson, National Resource Defense Council
• Ming Yang, Senior Environmental Economist, GEF
• Xiaomei Tan, World Resources Institute

3. Dinner 6:30-9:00

4. November 5, Friday, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM

Symposium on Institutions for Sustainable Development in China
Conference Room: IMF HQ2-250 A&B

Morning Session: 9:30AM -12:30PM
Opening: Hua Wang, President, Chinese Association for Public Affairs

Keynote Address (9:40-10:45 AM)
(Chair: Guangzhe Chen, Sector Manager, World Bank)

• Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), “Achieving Sustainable Global Food Security: The Role of China”
• Yan Wang, Senior Economist, World Bank, “Development Partnership in Agriculture: China in Africa”

Panel on Institutions and Rural-Urban Integrated Development (11:00-12:30AM)
(Chair: Xiaofang Shen, Sr. Investment Policy Officer, International Finance Corporation)

• Xiaobo Zhang (张晓波), Sr. Research Fellow of IFPRI, “Cluster-based rural industrialization in China”
• Jialu Liu, Allegheny College, “Human Capital, Migration and Rural Entrepreneurship in China”
• Chen Anping School of Economics, Jinan University, “When are cities engines of growth in China? Spread and backwash effects across the urban hierarchy”
• Xin Li, Dept of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, “Stakeholder Analysis of China's Brownfield Redevelopment”

Afternoon Session: 2:00-5:30PM

Panel on Local Governance (2:00-3:00PM)
(Chair: Ming Zhang, Sector Manager, World Bank)

• Lili Liu (刘琍琍), Lead Economist, World Bank, “中国地方政府财政政策和债务管理”
• Hua Wang (王华), Sr. Economist, World Bank, “中国社区利益相关者圆桌对话 Social Conflicts and Community Stakeholder Dialogue in China”

Panel on Environmental Governance (3:15-4:45PM)
(Chair: Lili Liu, Lead Economist, World Bank)

• Wanxin Li, City University of Hong Kong. “Has the Centralized Environmental Governance Regime Worked in China?”
• Linyu Xu, Beijing Normal University, “Environmental Performance Evaluation of Beijing’s Energy Use Planning”
• Xingliang Pan, China National Development and Reform Commission, “Regional Development Strategies for the Coordinated Promotion of Ecological Construction, environmental Protection and Economic Development”
• Zhigang Li, University of Hong Kong, “Is production or consumption to blame for pollution in China? Evidence from visibility from 1982 to 2006”

Open Discussion on Institutional Reform and Policy Research in China (4:45-5:30PM)
(Chair: Hua Wang, President, Chinese Association for Public Affairs)

5. Banquet and Award: 6:00-9:30 PM

IMF HQ2 Conference Hall 2
Co-Chairs: Hua Wang (President of CAPA and Honorary President of PACE), Shuigen Xiao (President of UCAPO), and Haiyan Shi (Chairwoman of CSA)

Conference Organization Committee:

Hua Wang (Chair), Shuigen Xiao (co-chair), Haiyan Shi (co-chair), Mansha Chen, Fei Deng, Sheran Deng, Yuzhen He, Yuanyuan Jiang, Honglin Li, Jie Li, Yeqing Li, Lei Liu, Lili Liu, Tao Ni , Song Song, Xiaomei Tan, Chao Wang, Jun Wang, Li Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Ming Yang, Yubin Ye, Jiangbo Yi, Zhihong Zhang, Yixin Zuo

Registration and Contact:

Please send name, title, affiliation, and email address to capawashington@gmail.com. For more information, please contact Ms. Jie Li at jli4@worldbank.org, Ms. Song Song at ssong@imf.org, Ms. Lei Liu at Lydia_liu10@yahoo.com, or Ms. Honglin Li at happyhollyli@yahoo.com.

All registered participants should enter into the conference buildings at the visitor’s entrance of IMF HQ1 on November 4 and IMF HQ2 on November 5. For questions on entering IMF building, please contact Song Song or Jiangbo Yi at phone numbers???

Parking spaces are difficult to find around the IMF buildings. Participants are encouraged to take DC metro and the closest metro stops are Farragut West and Farragut North.