The two largest economies in the world, the United States and China are locked in an ongoing trade war, which is the most striking international Headline of 2018.

By looking at the courses and possible consequences of the ‘US-China trade war’ and going through major international affairs ever since, Professor Jiawei Zhang will share with the audience his insights into China’s evolving relationship with the United States, Canada, the UK, and the rest of the world.

Speaker

Professor Jiawei Zhang is the chief researcher at GBIC, a research fellow at the Jack Austin Asia-Pacific Research Center of Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada, and a research fellow at the Institute of Strategic Research of Peking University. In particular, Professor Zhang focuses on economic issues related to China and North America as well as the crowdfunding business model and niche market behavior.

Professor Zhang is currently an academic visiting scholar at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, focusing on business model research in the field of niche behavioral economics.

Professor Zhang has rich business experience. He was the Chairman and President of a large state-owned company in China for more than ten years. He is an expert in Chinese enterprises’ reform and development and has a deep understanding of China’s Corporation Law. He is a successful Angel investor and a well-known consultant for companies. He has also served as a director, independent director, or strategic advisor in a number of companies, including high-tech companies.

Professor Zhang has published many papers on Chinese and English journals. His book The Rise of Niche, The Ugly Duckling Management, The Crowdfunding Study, Silicon Valley—A New Future as well as the book he translated, Niche: Why the Market No Longer Favours the Mainstream, are all among the most popular Economical books in China. Professor Zhang is widely acclaimed as the founder of the theory of Niche in China.

Agenda

8.30-8.50 Guests sign in, Tea and Coffee

8.50-10.20 Understanding China’s evolving relationship with the world

10.20-10.45 Q&A and Networking

World War II has always been an important topic of contemporary history studies. China’s eight years’ resistance to Japan is one of the great untold stories of World War II. As an authority on the history of 19th and 20th century China, Hans van de Ven, Professor of Modern Chinese History from Cambridge University, will depict this historical event in a comprehensive way. This talk will also discuss the changes of China’s politics and ideology after World War II.

Speaker

Hans van de Ven, Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Cambridge

Hans van de Ven is an expert on the history of 19th and 20th century China. He is Professor of Modern Chinese History and has served as Chair of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He also is Director in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at St Catharine’s College. He has been a Guest Professor in the History Department of Nanjing University and an International Fellow at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, China, in 2005–06. He has written on China’s military history as well as the history of China’s globalization. His book, China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China 1937-1952, was published in 2017 by Profile in London and Harvard University Press in 2018. Linking Press will publish a Chinese translation next year.

Research interests:

History of the Chinese Communist Party before 1949; the history of warfare in modern China from the Taiping Rebellion to the Civil War between the Communists and the Nationalists; the history of Chinese globalization in the 1850-1950 period.

Agenda

4:00pm-4:20pm Guests sign in, Tea and Coffee

4:20pm-5:40pm Talk: China at World War II

5:40pm-6:15pm Q&A and Networking

Tickets

Free Entrance

About 65% of Chinese tourists sampled have used mobile payment while traveling overseas, compared with only 11% of non-Chinese tourists, according to The Outbound Chinese Tourism and Consumption Trends: 2017 Survey, jointly issued by Nielsen, a global leading information and measurement company, and Alipay, the world’s largest mobile and lifestyle platform.

Chinese tourists shift to and embrace mobile payments faster than any country, and over 90% Chinese tourists would use mobile payment overseas given the option.

According to statistics from the China National Tourism Administration, Chinese tourists traveled overseas on 131 million occasions in 2017, an increase of 7% from the previous year. Statistics from the International Tourism Association shows that the overseas spending by Chinese tourists in 2016 was as high as 261.1 billion U.S. dollars, increasing 4.5% over the same period (year-on-year) and was ranked first among all tourists worldwide.

To understand what role mobile payments play during overseas travel for Chinese citizens, and to get practical tips on how hotels, restaurants and shops could adapt to Chinese mobile payment system so as to attract more Chinese consumers and to provide better services, join us at this ‘must-attend’ business workshop.

Speaker

Jinzhao Li

Founder and Managing Director of Cambridge China Center, Founder of First UK Education, a former executive of New Oriental Education Technology Group, a practitioner and senior expert in the field of cross-culture Education and Business Consultation.

Agenda

8.30-8.50     Guests sign in, Tea and Coffee

8.50-9.50     Embracing mobile payments – practical tips for hotels, restaurants and shops

9.50-10.30   Q&A and Networking

Having key stakeholders of Cambridge and representatives of Chinese tour operators involved, Visit Cambridge and Cambridge China Centre are co-organizing this important meeting, exploring ideas and interventions to improve the welcome and management of Chinese visitors to Cambridge, to reach out to Chinese tour operators and summer school organizers, to promote balanced and diverse tourism resources of Cambridge and beyond, to enhance mutual communication and understanding, to maximise the opportunities for businesses and visitors, and at the same time to reduce negative impacts from overwhelming tourism on a world-famous small city like Cambridge.

This Roundtable Meeting starting with ‘China Sector’ will be a positive initiative, leading to more efforts and measures introduced in the wider sectors towards a full picture of ‘Sustainable Tourism’ for Cambridge.

We welcome thoughts and insights from all parities on this subject. Please contact enquiry@cambridgechinacentre.org sharing with us your interests, concerns, opinions and suggestions.

Tickets

Invitation only

Speakers

Speaker 1: Dr Haihua Zhang, co-author of popular books ‘ Think like Chinese’,  ‘Think More like Chinese’

Speaker 2: Mr Geoff Baker, co-author of popular books ‘ Think like Chinese’,  ‘Think More like Chinese’

Speaker 3: Ms Jinzhao Li, Director of Cambridge China Centre

Speaker 4: Ms Sarah Cheung Johnson, the first British-born-Chinese Councillor in Cambridgeshire

Agenda

Our well balanced speakers combine their Chinese and Western perspectives to explain and debate, with rich examples, common Chinese and western behaviours that may seem odd to each other. They share their experiences and observations to provide strategies for overcoming such cultural barriers. Audience are welcome to throw in their observations, questions and insights.

Held at Cambridge Union, the oldest debating society in the world, the workshop `Think like Chinese v Think like Westerners` is going to bring you a light-hearted, fun and inspiring afternoon.

4:00 pm-4:30 pm Guests arrival; Welcome tea/coffee
4:30 pm-5:30 pm Workshop: Think like Chinese VS Think like Westerners
5:30 pm-6:15 pm Q&A, and Networking

Performers

UK Chinese Music Ensemble

Agenda

6:30 pm-7:00 pm Guests arrival; Welcome tea/coffee
7:00 pm-7:45 pm Chinese Classical music
7:45 pm-8:30 pm Networking over drinks

This workshop will equip Cambridge colleges and organizations in retail and tourism sectors necessary knowledge and skills for working with Chinese visiting groups/tourists. The workshop will cover essential areas including:

•  The rise of China’s middle class
•  Consumption upgrade of Chinese consumers
•  Mutual cultural understanding
•  Sustainable tourism for Cambridge

Target Audience: Organizations providing services to Chinese visiting groups/tourists, including Cambridge governments, tourism agencies, Cambridge colleges, hotels, restaurants, shops, and individuals who are interested in Chinese Consumer behavior.

Speaker

Jinzhao Li, Director of Cambridge China Centre

Agenda

4:00 pm-4:20 pm Guests arrival; Welcome tea/coffee
4:20 pm-5:40 pm Workshop: Understanding Chinese visiting groups/tourists
5:40 pm-6:00 pm Q&A

Open to invited guests only, over a hundred delegates from universities, colleges, businesses, government and media, from the UK and China, will come together to join us on the 4th June 2018 in the celebration and launch of Cambridge China Centre and Cambridge China Forum.

This eagerly awaited launch will be a wonderful opportunity for you to:

• Keep up with the UK-China Golden Era relationship
• Understand how Cambridge China Centre could help connect Cambridge with Modern China
• Network with hand-picked potential business partners over refreshments
• And to explore potential business opportunities

Speakers

Mr Xu Jin

• Minister Counsellor of Chinese Embassy UK, Commercial Section
• The Ministry of Commerce’s most senior representative within the UK

Mrs Jinzhao Li

• Founder and Director of Cambridge China Centre
• Founder and Director of First UK Education
• Former General Manager of subsidiary company of New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: EDU)

Dr Wei Sun

• Chairman of Advisory Board, Cambridge China Centre
• Chairman of Cambridge Chinese Community Centre.

Agenda

Cambridge China Centre would like to invite you to its Launching Event held at Old Divinity School, St John’s College on the 4th June 2018. This would be a wonderful opportunity for you to:

• Keep up with UK-China Golden Era relationship
• Understand how Cambridge China Centre could help connect Cambridge with Modern China
• Network with hand-picked potential business partners over nice tea/coffee and wines
• Explore business opportunities

16.30-17.00 Guests arrival; Welcome tea/coffee
17.00-18.00 Launching of Cambridge China Centre and Cambridge China Forum
18.00-18.45 Networking over drinks