CCG has long-standing interests in domestic policy and reform research, and has provided constructive policy advice on China's openness index, regions and cities, the Greater Bay Area economy, and urban-rural integration.
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Yang Jiemian : International landscape roiling with changes brought by pandemic
During the global coronavirus pandemic, analyzing the situation to generate responses in a comprehensive, dialectical and forward-looking manner is much needed.
March 30 , 2020 -
Laurence Brahm: A time for Shambhala: Coronavirus, capital collapse & re-coding
Let me tell you a story about searching for a place called "Shangri-la." You may not believe in it. Especially at a time like this when the world is in chaos. Maybe you don’t think it exists. But if determined, you can certainly try and look for it. Maybe you will be surprised at what you find…It is at times like this that people search for Shangri-la.
March 27 , 2020 -
Laurence Brahm: Sharing science, not political bashing, needed to fight COVID-19
The coronavirus crisis is a worldwide pandemic requiring collaboration across nations regardless of ideology, political system or religiosity. This is the time for global unity against a pandemic attack, no different than if all the nations of the world had to unite to fight an attack from outer space aliens. As science fiction as it sounds, the coronavirus global pandemic is something right out of science fiction and needs to be met head on with global cooperation, the sharing of information, science and experience to fight a common enemy. This is not the time to be fighting among ourselves.
March 20 , 2020 -
Laurence Brahm: Remember the ‘Big Short’? This time it’s bigger
In the movie The Big Short a fund manager takes a position against the rising American stock market, seeing the incubating subprime as a potential crisis that could bring down a house of cards. He effectively bets against the market, or rather he bets against America. Others are shocked and question his acumen. In the end, when the 2008 subprime crisis erupts into a global financial crisis, and America enters a historic recession, short of outright depression, the fund manager cashes in on his bet and makes a fortune as others lose their shirt.
March 14 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Step up int’l cooperation to curb the COVID-19 pandemic
China's COVID-19 pandemic is now effectively under control after a two-month battle, with an orderly resumption of business and production underway in most parts of the country. On March 10, China's President Xi Jingping arrived in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province, to inspect the effort in containing the virus. It is evident in his inspection that the central government of China attaches great importance and caution to the work of virus containment.
March 12 , 2020