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Friday, 1 July 2011

The behaviour of companies and industrial dynamics and energy and sustainability are some of the topics to be addressed at a major international conference to be hosted by The University of Western Australia's Business School and the Association for Chinese Economic Studies (Australia).

Entitled China's Growth and the World Economy, the conference is also the association's 23 rd meeting and has delegates from Universities around Australia and China.

Keynote speakers are Yang Yao of Peking University; Rod Tyers and Peter Robertson from UWA; Anthony Rush of the Reserve Bank of Australia; Xiaolu Wang of the National Economy Research Institute, Beijing; and Harry X Wu of Hitotsubashi University, Japan.

A deans' forum will include Hongjun Yu, Vice-President of Peking University; Xiaobu Wu, Dean (Management) at Zhejiang University; Kangning Xu, Dean (Economics) at  Southeast University; and Kungwang Li, Deputy Dean (Economics) at Nankai University.

Conference organiser, UWA Economics Professor Yanrui Wu said the conference represented another instance of the deepening friendship between Australia and China.

Professor Wu is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery grant of more than $350,000 to examine energy efficiency, economic growth and the environment in China.

"Concern for the environment within China will lead to a different development model from that of the unstoppable economic expansion that has characterised the past three decades, and Australia will be one of the major beneficiaries," he said.

Professor Wu believes not only China itself but also Australia and the international community will benefit from China's determination to tackle its major environmental problems including lake-water pollution threatening humans' drinking water; increased desertification; and poor air quality that also endangers human life.

Media references

Professor Yanrui Wu (UWA Business School)  (+61 8) 6488 3964
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 5563  /  (+61 4) 32 637 716

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