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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Bruce Pang — China's Property Market: Navigating the Evolving Landscape
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Bruce Pang\, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Greater China \n\n\n\nFor the past three decades\, the real estate sector has been a cornerstone of China’s economic growth\, social development\, and urbanization. Commercial real estate\, in particular\, has thrived due to vigorous domestic growth and seamless integration into the global marketplace\, resulting in a mature\, diverse\, and thriving sector. As China pledges to shift its long-accustomed investment-driven growth model to a “quality over quantity” paradigm\, the property market is undergoing significant transformations\, with slower growth and disparities among sub-sectors.This lecture will explore these transformative dynamics and offer a forward-looking perspective on China’s real estate market\, including both the residential property sphere and key segments within the commercial property sector. By utilizing official data and JLL’s proprietary data\, we find that China’s property market serves as a proxy that can effectively reflect the country’s short-term cyclical headwinds and longer-term mega-trends. This includes China’s reshaped landscape in investment\, consumption\, financial\, and services sectors\, its urbanization and demographic outlook\, among others. We conclude that time and patience are still needed for China’s emerging industries and domestic consumption to regain growth momentum and offset the pressure on economic expansion\, especially as policymakers demonstrate a higher tolerance for slower growth and more focus on the domestic market.Bruce Pang is the Chief Economist and Head of Research at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Greater China. He also is a member of the Chief Economist Forum in China\, a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the National Institution for Finance and Development (NIFD)\, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Housing and Urban Development of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In addition\, he holds adjunct faculty positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, Fudan University\, Renmin University of China\, Sun Yat-sen University\, among others. Bruce holds a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Hong Kong as well as an MA from the University of Chicago and an MSc from HKUST. He has authored papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and industry journals\, focusing on macroeconomics\, policy analysis\, real estate economics\, financial markets\, and asset allocation strategies. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97147498753 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-bruce-pang/
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Koji Hirata — Local Governments and Central SOEs: Historical Evidence from Angang
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Koji Hirata\, Monash University \n\n\n\nThis presentation examines the city of Anshan in Liaoning Province as a case study to explore the interactions between large state-owned enterprises and local governments in Mao-era China. Anshan was home to China’s largest steel enterprise at the time\, Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang). Although Angang was primarily controlled by the central government\, the Chinese Communist Party Anshan City Committee and the Anshan City Government still exerted a degree of influence over its operations. \n\n\n\nThe relationship between Angang and city authorities of Anshan underwent changes throughout the Mao era. During the First Five-Year Plan (1953-57)\, China adopted a centralized governance model based on the Soviet example\, and Angang often disregarded city government policies\, such as urban planning. However\, during the Great Leap Forward and the early Cultural Revolution\, Mao Zedong decentralized economic decision-making\, granting greater power to local governments. This shift significantly increased the influence of the city’s CCP committee and government on Angang—a transformation reflected in the so-called “Angang Constitution\,” authored by the CCP Anshan City Committee and praised by Chairman Mao.The study highlights the complexities of Maoist China’s planned economy\, demonstrating the dynamic interactions between industrial and urban authorities. These interactions reflected competing visions within the CCP leadership on how China should be governed. \n\n\n\nKoji Hirata is a Senior Research Fellow (Senior Lecturer) in History at Monash University in Australia. He earned his Ph.D. in history at Stanford University. Before joining Monash\, he was a Research Fellow (JRF) at Emmanuel College\, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on modern China\, Japan\, and Russia/Soviet Union with broader implications for the global history of capitalism and socialism. His new book\, Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism\, was recently published by Cambridge University Press in December 2024. He is currently working on a new book project about Mao-era China’s foreign economic relations. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97147498753 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-koji-hirata/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Amy Zhang - Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Amy Zhang\, New York University \n\n\n\nAfter four decades of reform and development\, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. Starting in the early 2000s\, Chinese policymakers came to see waste management as an object of environmental governance central to the creation of “modern” cities. China’s cities started experiments with the circular economy\, in which technology and new policy could convert all forms of waste back into resources. Based on long-term research in Guangzhou\, this talk details the implementation of technologies and infrastructures to modernize a mega-city’s waste management system. Waste’s transformation revealed uncomfortable truths about China’s mode of environmental governance: a preference for technology over labor\, the aestheticization of order\, and the expropriation of value in service of an ecological vision. Waste’s afterlives exhibited a propensity to draw together diverse matters and objects. The talk shows how in disputes and practices around waste\, diverse waste matter in transformation created temporary and emergent social and ecological interdependencies and gave rise to new political sentiments and actions across diverse urban dwellers.  \n\n\n\nAmy Zhang is a sociocultural anthropologist and political ecologist whose research investigates environment\, technology\, labor\, and urban life. Her first book Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China (Stanford University Press\, 2024) explores how waste infrastructures\, materials and their technical interventions ground and condition the forms\, possibilities and limits of China’s emerging urban environmental politics. Other writings appear in Cultural Anthropology\, Current Anthropology\, Science\, Technology and Human Values\, China Perspectives\, e-flux Architecture\, LIMN\, Made in China and Can Science and Technology save China? among others. She is assistant professor of Anthropology at New York University. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97147498753 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-amy-zhang/
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