China's high-standard opening up: Opportunities and strategies for foreign investors in the new era of reform

"Reform and opening up are an ongoing endeavor rather than a task to be completed," says the Resolution of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. The Resolution has made new deployments to pursue high-standard opening up, which is a defining feature of Chinese modernization. It has also proposed further reforming management systems for inward and outward investment. "We will foster a first-rate business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized and protect the rights and interests of foreign investors in accordance with the law," says the Resolution. In an exclusive interview with Shanghai Daily, Professor Ding Haoyuan, Deputy Dean of the College of Business at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics,...

China's capital market reform: Balancing investment and financing for enhanced market efficiency and investor protection

The "Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization" was issued on July 21. This blueprint covers all aspects of promoting Chinese-style modernization, focusing on deploying major reform measures for the next five years. The Resolution proposes to improve the functions of the capital market to give balanced weight to investment and financing. In an exclusive interview with Shanghai Daily, Professor Li Feng, deputy dean of Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, talks about how this policy is likely to serve investors better, and how foreign investors and enterprises are going to benefit from it. Shanghai Daily: What does "impro...

Urban-rural integration: A blueprint for China's modernization and social security reform

“Theory Nourishes Hongkou” Event: A Dialogue Between Theory and Practice on Advancing Urban Governance Modernization through Whole-Process People’s Democracy

On November 18th, the Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations(SFSSA)and thePublicity Departmentof CPC Hongkou District Committeejointly hosted the “Theory Nourishes Hongkou’ Event: A Dialogue Between Theory and Practice on Advancing Urban Governance Modernization through Whole-Process People’s Democracy.”Fudan University’s (FDU) Professor Sang Yucheng, who is also a Vice President of the Federation, Professor Lin Yanfrom the KoGuan School of Law of Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU)and Xue Zelin, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Politics and Public Administration of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, engaged in a discussionon urban governance based on the case of the Hongkou District. The three-party conversation session was m...

The Readable City Social Science Popularization Event Held at the Venue of the Thematic Exhibition “People’s City”

On the morning of November 17th, at the venue of thematic exhibition “People’s City:Shanghai’s Best Practices in Building a People’s City,” the Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations launched the “This is Shanghai” Readable City Social Science Popularization Event, showcasing the urban governance concepts behind Shanghai’s achievements in building a “people’s city. A diverse crowd, comprising both adult and children visitors, showed up. This event specially invited associate professor Chen Jing ofthe Department of Landscape Architecture at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, to deliver an excellent lecture titled “The Art of Time and the Power of Gardens: Exploring the Green ...