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China Week

China Week is our flagship, week-long series of events designed to help contribute to an informed understanding of China's growing global influence through research and public engagement. 

Hosted by the Lau China Institute, each year China Week brings together experts from across academia, industry and government to explore the key themes in China's modern development through interactive discussions and debates.

China Week 2024 | 14-18 October  

Whither the China Model: The economic, developmental and social challenges facing China today 

With China facing significant headwinds in its domestic economy, this year's China Week explores what the future model for growth and development might look like, what challenges the country is facing today, what these mean for the rest of the world, and how these may be overcome.   

Keynote speaker - Michael Pettis, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

We are delighted to announce China economy expert, Michael Pettis, as our keynote speaker for this year's China Week. Michael is a Beijing-based senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has been teaching finance at Peking University since 2004. From 2002 to 2004, he also taught at Tsinghua University and, from 1992 to 2001, at Columbia University. Prior to moving to China in 2002, Pettis spent fifteen years on Wall Street where he ran trading and capital markets desks focusing mainly on Latin America. He has published six books, the most recent of which, "Trade Wars are Class Wars" (Yale University Press, 2019), was the 2021 Lionel Gelber Book Prize Winner.