Capital Beat: Certainties and Uncertainties after the 12th National People's Congress Go back »
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Time2013-03-28 | 15:00 - 17:00
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Venue:Four Seasons Hotel
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Address:48 Liang Ma Qiao Road Chaoyang District,Beijing
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Fee:Members: 400 RMB |
Non Members: 600 RMB
The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is pleased to invite you to the next edition of our quarterly public affairs seminar Capital Beat, with leading China experts W. John Hoffmann (Co-Founder & Principal at Exceptional Resources Group - XRG), Masaaki Kaizuka (Minister of Finance, Embassy of Japan) and Benjamin Lim (Thomson Reuters) on 28th March 2013, 15:30 at the Four Seasons Hotel.
The National People's Congress, abbreviated NPC, is the highest state body and the unicameral legislative house in China. 5th March 2013 has been fixed as the first day of this two- week meeting, the 12th National People’s Congress, with the lead of the new Communist Party Chief Xi Jinpin.
The NPC has a collection of functions and powers, including electing the President of the People's Republic of China and approving the appointment of the Premier of the State Council as well as approving the work reports of top officials. The constitution of the National People's Congress provides for most of its power to be exercised on a day-to-day basis by its Standing Committee. In addition, the NPC now functions as a forum in which legislative proposals are drafted and debated with input from different parts of the government and outside technical experts.
We therefore invite you to join W. John Hoffmann, Masaaki Kaizuka and Benjamin Lim to analyze and discuss this historical moment and what implications the 12th NPC will bring to China.
Agenda:
15:00 - 15:30 Registration
15:30 - 15:32 Welcome Speech
15:32 - 15:35 Opening Remarks
15:40 - 16:15 Presentations by Speakers
16:15 - 17:00 Moderated Q&A
17:00 Networking and Drinks
Speakers
Mr. Benjamin Lim
Benjamin Lim is the North Asia Specialist Correspondent for Reuters, based in Beijing. Ben joined Reuters in 1991, serving as Taipei bureau chief from 2000 to 2002 and Beijing bureau chief from 2008 to 2010. Having broken some of the biggest news stories out of China, Ben won the Reuters Scoop of the Year award in 2007 for correctly predicting the new line-up of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee three weeks before the official announcement. Ben was also named Reuters Reporter of the Year in 2011, and shared Reuters Reporting Team of the Year with the Hong Kong bureau in 2014. Ben’s latest book, “把脈中國：對習近平的第一手觀察” (“Taking China’s Pulse”), was released in January 2016.
Mr. Masaaki Kaizuka
Masaaki Kaizuka is minister (finance) in the embassy of Japan in Beijing. Prior to this assignment he was director of the governmental financial institutions division in the Minister’s Secretariat of the Ministry of Finance. In this capacity, he was in charge of designing policies to provide policy-based finance. Before serving in this role he was director of the division of debt-management policy in the Finance Bureau.
Mr Kaizuka joined the Ministry of Finance in 1984. His experience in the ministry is wide-ranging and includes formulating the budget for foreign affairs and ODA, reorganising governmental financial institutions, drafting laws on securities businesses and markets, and enhancing the ministry’s public relations. He has also engaged in negotiations for free-trade agreements with many Asian countries (2004–07). During his career with the Ministry of Finance, he has been posted to overseas positions in the World Bank (1991–94) and the OECD (2000–04), where he tackled issues such as protecting the global environment, reforming the former Soviet countries and establishing corporate governance in Asian countries.
Mr Kaizuka graduated from the University of Tokyo (LLB, 1984) and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (MPA, 1988).
Mr. W. John Hoffmann
W. John Hoffmann is a Co-Founder and Principal of the Exceptional Resources Group (XRG), a China-based strategy and transactional consulting firm, and a Co-Founder and Founding Core Associate of the China Dialogues Network (CDN), a network of leading China analysts, consultants, scholars and businesspeople that provides information and bespoke advice on China. The third generation of his family to live and work in China, with over 29 years China-specific experience, Mr. Hoffmann’s areas of China expertise are breakthrough strategy development and venture negotiation, party and government relations and relationship building, project finance, mergers & acquisitions, and restructuring / workouts. Mr. Hoffmann has been advising government and multinational clients on their China projects since 1986. Together with XRG-CDN Founding Core Associate, Professor Michael J. Enright, Mr. Hoffmann is also the co-editor of China Into The Future (Wiley 2008)