Prof. Justin Yifu Lin, former senior vice-president and chief economist of the World Bank, and honorary dean of National School of Development at Peking University, presented a public lecture on ‘Demystifying the Chinese Economy’ on 15 November. The lecture drew a full house of about 500 CUHK staff, students and members of the public. In the lecture, Professor Lin reflected on China’s unprecedented growth in the past 32 years, examined the reasons behind it, and discussed the challenges faced by China against maintaining an eight per cent annual growth rate in the coming decades.

Professor Lin received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986. He has authored 16 books, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform, which has been published in seven languages, and State-owned Enterprise Reform in China, which is available in Chinese, Japanese, and English. He has published more than 100 articles in international journals and collected volumes on history, development, and transition.

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