At the 20th Party Congress in October 2022 and at the recent meeting of the National People’s Congress Xi Jinping was reelected as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and as president of the PRC. At both meetings new leaders were elected to top positions in Party and government and important new economic and political policy directions were laid out. In addition major institutional restructuring took place transferring even more functions and responsibilities from the state to the Party. What is the goal of this centralization of power in the CCP and what does it mean for policy-making and governance in the economic and political arena?  These issues will be discussed at seminar arranged by members of the policy group affiliated with the EU Horizon project “Dealing with a Resurgent China.”

 Agenda:

 14:00- 14:05 Welcome

14:05-14:25 Personnel appointments and policy directions after the 20th CCP Congress

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Professor, Department of International Economics, Government  and Business (EGB)

14:25-14:45  How policies are made in China – the Role of the Commission for

Comprehensively Deepening Reform

Nis Grünberg Lead Analyst, MERICS, Berlin

14:45-15:05 Financialisation and EconomicGgovernance in China

Postdoc Kasper Ingeman Beck, EGB

15:05-15:15 Break

15:00-16:00 Discussion