Prof. Jikun Huang, Director of CCAP, Leads a Delegation to Attend the 2013 Chinese Economist Society (CES) Annual Conference

Release date：2013/7/4　　Source： ccap

      During June 8-9, 2013, Professor Jikun Huang, Director of CCAP leads a delegation of eight faculty members, visiting scholars and graduate students to attend the 2013 Chinese Economist Society (CES) conference. The event, carrying a theme of " China’s Financial System in Transition: Reform, Policy and Practice”, was held in Mount Qingcheng outside of Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The conference incorporated a total of 10 papers from CCAP.

      Professor HUANG was invited to talk at an invited session. During his talk titled “How to feed China: the Giant Dragon?” he discussed the problem of who will feed China from two perspectives: supply and demand. He thought that the increasing demand for food (especially animal products) and the constrained cultivated lands and water resource together pose the two biggest challenges for Chinese food security. Experience indicated that improving farmers’ incentives for production (like institutional innovation and market reform), promoting technological process and increasing agricultural investment are key factors in promoting agricultural growth and guaranteeing food security. How to feed China in the future? He thought that it would mainly rely on the increasing investment in agricultural productivity (like investing in agricultural technology and agricultural infrastructure). Meanwhile, constrained by domestic resource, China will import more food (especially feed, oil, sugar and dairy products). Hence, China should actively take part in administering global food security and improving the agricultural productivity in developing countries’ (like Africa). In addition, Prof. HUANG made a speech about “Non-agricultural employment and agricultural specialization” in another session.

      Other seven faculty members, visiting scholars and graduate student delegates also presented at various parallel sessions during this conference. They are associate professors Renfu LUO and Chengfang LIU, Assistant professor Hongmei YI, Ph.D. candidate Yunfan YANG, and visiting scholars Xiaochen MA, Sean Sylvia and Matt Boswell. Their topics range from participation into the new rural pension system, uptake of maternal health services in poor rural minority areas, quality of rural medical service, anemia and academic performance among rural pupils, computer assisted learning and academic performance, to the impact of the early commitment of financial aid on the dropout of junior high students.