On November 20th, 2018, the fifth lecture of the series CF40 Review of 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up was held in Beijing. The lecture was also the tenth event of CF40 - Sun Yefang Book Club co-hosted by China Finance 40 Forum and Sun Yefang Economic Science Foundation, with support from the Bank of Communication and CFCity. The theme of the lecture was “China’s 40 years: from high-speed growth to high-quality development”.
Cai Fang, CF40 Advisor and Vice President of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, delivered the keynote speech, analyzing the role demographic dividends played in China’s great success in the past four decades.
Following the speech, Prof Justin Yifu Lin from National School of Development at Peking University and Mr. Zhang Bin, CF40 Senior Fellow, had a discussion of the main drivers of China’s economy over the past four decades.
CF40 Secretary-General Wang Haiming moderated the discussion.
