Seminar & Events
International Conference
“Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone and the Future of Asia”
Conference Report:
- Executive Summary (Final Version) (2.5MB)
- Full Report (Final Version) (4.5MB)
The
East
Asia
has
been
attracting
the
attention
of
international
economic
community
by
its
continued
economic
growth.
Specifically,
Chinese
economy
has
been
drastically
developed
since
the
economic
reform
in
1970s
as
well
as
participation
to
the
World
Trade
Organization
(WTO)
in
2001.
Nominal
GDP
has
exceeded
8
trillion
US
dollars
and
the
nominal
GDP
per
capita
has
reached
6
thousand
US
dollars
in
2012.
On
the
other
hand,
China
also
faces
the
difficulties
to
realize
high
economic
growth
and
reduction
of
economic
disparities.
Under
such
circumstances,
“Shanghai
Pilot
Free
Trade
Zone
(SHFTZ)”,
where
service
sectors
are
liberalized
with
national
treatments
except
the
negative
list,
receives
high
attentions
as
a
new
booster
of
economic
growth
in
China.
In
2014,
IDE
and
SASS
have
conducted
a
collaborative
research
on
the
theme
of
“Shanghai
Pilot
Free
Trade
Zone
(SHFTZ)
and
its
economic
effect”.
Objective
of
the
research
was
to
clarify
the
implemented
reforms
and
the
current
status
in
SHFTZ
and
to
analyze
its
impacts
over
domestic
economic
interdependence
as
well
as
economic
integration
in
East
Asia
both
qualitatively
and
quantitatively.
In
globalization,
development
gaps
between
the
nations
would
become
small
whereas
domestic
gaps
would
be
enlarged.
In
order
to
analyze
such
gaps
in
globalization
and
to
provide
policy
measures
to
mitigate
it,
IDE
has
developed
Geographical
Simulation
Model
(GSM)
since
2007.
To
analyze
the
impacts
noted
above,
GMS
was
used
in
this
project.
It
is
possible
to
predict
the
type
of
physical
or
institutional
integration
that
favorably
or
adversely
affects
the
concerned
regions
at
the
sub-national
level
i.e.
city/prefecture/region
level.
It
is
also
possible
to
predict
how
such
a
policy
measure
to
facilitate
international
transaction
that
affects
the
traffic
of
which
routes,
identifying
potential
bottlenecks
to
enable
extracting
the
full
merits
of
economic
integration.
Date&time:
January 23, 2015 (Friday) 14:00-17:00
Venue:
Shanghai
Academy
of
Social
Sciences
(Zhongshan
Xi
Lu
1610,
Changning
Distrcit,
Shanghai)
（上海社科国际创新基地五楼多功能厅（上海市中山西路1610号））
Program:
| 14:00-14:15 | Welcome remarks |
|---|---|
| 14:15-14:35 |
Keynote
speech: Youwen Zhang (Researcher, Institute of World Economy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences) |
| 14:35-14:55 |
Keynote
speech: Takashi Shiraishi (President, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization) |
| 14:55-15:15 |
Distinguished
Guest
Speech: Shang-Jin Wei (Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank) |
| 15:15-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-17:00 |
Panel
discussion
|
| 17:00 | Closing remarks |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Press
Conference (at a meeting room at the same venue, IDE and SASS only) |
Languages:
Japanese, Chinese (Simultaneous translation)
Organizer:
Institute
of
Developing
Economies,
Japan
External
Trade
Organization
(IDE-JETRO),
Shanghai
Academy
of
Social
Sciences
(SASS)
Participation fee:
Free
Contact:
Research
Planning
Division,
Research
Planning
Department,
IDE-JETRO
Akiko
Sasaki
(MS)
E-mail：rpa_project
