Seminar delivered by Professor WEN Tiejun, Director, Centre of Rural Revitalization, Peking University. This seminar is part of the ANU China Seminar Series, supported by the Australian Centre on China in the World.
- Thursday 20 May 2021
- 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm AEST
- Online event with Registration via Eventbrite
About the talk
Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, a setback for globalization, and the New Cold War, China has responded by implementing the policy of dual circulation (domestic and international). While trying to counter the crises by maintaining investment-led growth, China has to deal with an over-expansion of credits and serious debts, similar to countries under the impact of financial capitalism. Rural China, however, has always played a role of “social stabilizer” along the path for industrialization and even financialization. Hence, the current challenge is whether China can deploy the strategy of rural vitalization and work out a model for ecological civilization; whether it can strengthen rural collectivity and to support a cooperative economy. Since 2000, the new rural reconstruction movement has already mobilised thousands of officials, intellectuals, workers, peasants, and students to join the trend. Several examples will be provided for discussion.
About the speaker
Professor WEN Tiejun is Director, Centre of Rural Revitalization, Peking University; Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest University; and Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of the Straits, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, China. He is a leading scholar on macro-economics and agrarian issues in China and has served in many capacities including Independent Non-Executive Director of Postal Savings Bank of China and of Agricultural Bank of China, Chief Editor of China Reform, and policy advisor to the State Council and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China.
Please note this is an online event via zoom