The 9th China Urban Housing Conference, co-organized by the Centre for Housing Innovations (CHI) of CUHK and the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD), was held from 8 to 9 July on CUHK campus. Guests officiating at the opening ceremony included Mr. Li Bingren, deputy director of the Science and Technology Committee of the MOHURD; Prof. Henry N.C. Wong, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK; and Prof. Tsou Jin-yeu, director of CHI. Over 200 scholars in the field of housing and urban-rural development attended the conference and around 90 academic reports were published. Prof. Chou Baoxing, director of the Science and Technology Committee of the MOHURD, gave the keynote speech. 


The CHI was established in 1998 in Beijing under the guidance and support of the Science and Technology Committee of MOHURD. Since then, conferences on China urban housing have been held in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shaoxing, Chongqing and Hefei. The event has become one of the key international academic activities in the area of China housing research.