CDF 2016 with the main theme of “Navigating Complexity”, brings together 20+ scholar and expert speakers, categorised into 9 sub-panels focusing on the nation’s economic reform particularly under the 13th Five-Year Plan, environmental sustainability, ethnic tensions, Hong Kong’s political future, and China’s growing global influence through “One Belt, One Road strategy”.

Panel Topics:

• Questioning “One Country, Two Systems: a Case Study on Hong Kong

• Climate Change and Energy: A Sustainable Future

• 1+1>3: One-Child Policy Abolished

• Institutional Reasons for China's Slowing Down

• Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Challenges and Opportunities

• One Belt One Road: China’s Grand Strategy

• China’s Ethnic Policy: an Uneasy Harmony?

• When Titans Waltz: an Outlook for China’s Foreign Policy

• Reforming China’s Economic Reforms