Globalization with Chinese Characteristics: The Belt and Road Initiative, International Trade and FDI. GLO President Zimmermann participated at the conference and provided a public keynote lecture on “Global Labor Challenges and the B&R Initiative”.

On October 31, 2019 GLO President Zimmermann terminated his visit at Lexin University in Shanghai (see Report 1 and Report 2) to travel by car to Ningbo. There, he visited the University of Nottingham Ningbo/China Globalisation and Economic Policy Centre (GEP) to participate on November 1-2 at the 11th GEP China Conference: “Globalisation with Chinese Characteristics: The Belt and Road Initiative, International Trade and FDI”. He investigated the upcoming B&R research, followed on November 1 the “World Economy China Lecture” of Justin Yifu Lin (Peking University) on “The Rise of China and the Belt and Road Initiative” and gave on November 2 his own “Distinguished GEP China Lecture” on “Global Labor Challenges and the B&R Initiative”. GLO Fellow Minghai Zhou of the University of Nottingham Ningbo had introduced Zimmermann and chaired his lecture and the following intensive discussions. Zimmermann also gave a longer interview to a team of student journalists from the Ningbo Economic Review. Full Conference Program.

Enjoying the event “after the hour” with friends at the river.

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