Professor Li Daokui of Tsinghua University. He told CGTN that China is "completely ready" to open its doors to foreign companies and foreign technologies. Central to this push, he notes, is Hainan, which is set to become a special customs area and a testing ground for broader economic reforms.

On November 7, the 41st meeting of Jiangsu Development High-level Forum was held at Nanjing University. The meeting thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and conducted exchanges and discussions around planning Jiangsu's 15th Five-Year development. Xin Changxing, Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, and Liu Xiaotao, Governor of Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, attended the meeting to listen to scholars

On November 7, 2025, the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) hosted an online lecture entitled Great Power Competition, Government Capacity and the Market Economy's Origins. This lecture was presented by Wang Yijiang, Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. The webinar represented the twenty-second installment in SAGE's Lectures in Government and Economics Series.

Foreign and Chinese companies are already scrambling to explore vast opportunities on Hainan, as the island province is poised to officially begin its special customs operations next month. Hainan Free Trade Port will implement major favorable tariff policies from Dec 18, with the proportion of products eligible for zero tariffs rising sharply from 21 percent to 74 percent. International organizations, company executives and experts have highlighted the importance of the changes amid rising tr

China called on the US to avoid four sensitive issues so a trade truce sealed between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping can hold, highlighting the broad array of disagreements that will test ties. Ambassador to the US Xie Feng named Taiwan, democracy and human rights, China’s political system, and development rights as Beijing’s four red lines, adding that “the most important thing is to respect each other’s core interests and major concerns.” Xie made the remarks in a virtual speech to a

The summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart Donald Trump was a breakthrough in bilateral relationship where the Asian giant was treated as an “equal partner” of the US, according to David Daokui Li, a regular policy adviser to Beijing. “Among all the meetings between the two leaders, this one is perhaps the most important — really historical,” said Li, an economics professor at Tsinghua University and a former adviser to the Chinese central bank. “Fundamentally

On October 31, 2025, the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) hosted an online lecture entitled China's Regional Competition and Unique Relationship between Government and the Market. This lecture was presented by Zhou Li'an, Director of Peking University's Faculty of Economics and Management and Boya Chair Professor of Applied Economics at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management. The webinar represented the twenty-first installment in SAGE's Lectures in Governme