Topic:

Can China Reach its 2024 Growth Target?

Speaker:

Dr Yu Yongding
Academician, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and
Member, Advisory Committee of National Planning, National Development and Reform Committee, People’s Republic of China

Date & Time:

Monday, 20 May 2024
10:00 am – 11:30 am

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-5, Manasseh Meyer Building
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
NUS Bukit Timah Campus
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772

Registration is required

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Abstract:

China’s GDP growth rate has steadily declined from 12.2% in the first quarter of 2010 to 6% in the last quarter of 2019. What are the factors behind this slowdown? In this public lecture, Dr. Yu Yongding will present his views on the causes. The Chinese government has set a growth target of around 5% for 2024. Will China be able to reach this target? Dr. Yu will also discuss the conditions that China must meet to achieve this goal.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Yu Yongding is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Advisory Committee of National Planning of the National Development and Reform Committee of the People’s Republic of China. He served as director-general of the Institute of World Economics and Politics from 1998 to 2009 and as president of the China Society of World Economics from 2003 to 2011. Additionally, he was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China from 2004 to 2006. Born in 1948, Dr. Yu graduated from the Beijing School of Science and Technology in 1969, received his MA degree in economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1983, and obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Oxford in 1994.