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Third Annual China Conference “Cultivating Tomorrow’s Leaders"
July 9th, Beijing
Global China Connection is committed to preparing the international student community to face the challenges of tomorrow. Join us this summer for our third annual Asia conference “Cultivating Tomorrow’s Leaders,” as we bring together the leading change-makers of Sino-Global relations to share their stories of personal growth and engage in discussion with over 400 student leaders from top international and Chinese universities representing China, the United States, Europe, Latin America, and more.
The conference will be a one day event in which there will be a total of three keynote addresses, four panel discussions, two networking meals, and one youth leadership exhibition in order to create a thorough discussion on the challenges and opportunities for our future.
Speakers include representatives from KPMG, Goldstone, Boston Consulting Group,Ogilvy, Lenovo, Hill & Knowlton, APCO Worldwide, Sidley Austen, Qualcomm, PWC, Chindex, Dorenfest, United Family Hospitals, and more.
The conference will be held at in the Wenjin Hotel in Beijing. See here for a map of the location.
Additional information about the event can be found here and registration can be found by following this link.
Please contact us at confe...@gccglobal.org if you have any further questions.
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Three of Our Annual Conference Keynote Speakers: Short Bios
John Holden
Immediate past president of the National Committee on United States–China Relations (1998-2005), he has previously held positions as Chairman of Shaklee China, Chairman/GM of Cargill China, General Manager of BankAmerica World Trade Corp.’s PRC business, and China Trading Manager of Unison International.
In 1981 Mr. Holden interpreted for National Geographic teams researching the Yellow River basin and Tibet for the acclaimed book Journey Into China. Mr. Holden is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
Jim McGregor
An American author, journalist and businessman who has lived in China for more than 20 years. He also is a senior counselor for APCO Worldwide and a member of the firm's International Advisory Council. McGregor is a professional speaker who specializes in China's business, politics and society and he regularly appears in the media to discuss China-related topics.
He is the author of the book One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China [Simon & Schuster, 2005] and is the former CEO of Dow Jones & Company in China and Wall Street Journal bureau chief in China and Taiwan. After leaving Dow Jones, McGregor was a China managing partner for GIV Venture Partners, a $140 million venture capital fund specializing in the Chinese internet and technology outsourcing. McGregor is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on US-China Relations, International Council of the Asia Society, and serves on a variety of China-related advisory boards.
Paul Su
Paul Su is the Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse Greater China, Investment Banking Department. He is responsible for originating and executing transactions, as well as managing corporate relationships in China. Mr. Su joined Credit Suisse in April 2001 and has been based in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. Prior to that, Mr. Su worked at JP Morgan as an investment banker in New York and Hong Kong. Mr. Su holds a B.S. from Peking University in China and a MBA and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the US.
For complete information about all of our speakers, please click here.
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GCC's Third Annual Asia Summit Reception
Global China Connection's Alumni Association invites you to celebrate the culmination of GCC's Third Annual Asia Summit with a cocktail reception on Saturday, July 9, starting at 8:00 p.m.
The reception will be held at the JW Marriott's Loong Bar located at 83 Jian Guo Lu, China Central Place Beijing, China.
Attire: Cocktail
Event Fee:
- FREE for GCC members, AmCham members, and conference attendees
- RMB 50 for professionals and non-GCC affiliated students
- Entrance includes passed hors d'oeuvres
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GCC Guanzhou Summer Committee Welcome Event
June 11th marked the first event of this summer’s Guangzhou Committee Summer Event Series, which brought together more than 30 GCC members from chapters as diverse as Columbia, Wilfrid Laurier, Western Ontario and USC, as well as numerous students from local universities.
The occasion kicked off their summer events and offered a chance for everyone to connect, make new friends, and discuss their respective goals for the summer.
Our other Summer Committees in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai have gotten off to a great start as well, with organized activities bringing many like-minded people together to share their past experiences and participate in new ones together.
This summer's committees, our second year ever, are already off to a great start, enabling members to form new friendships, develop personal networks, and meet with talented professionals from various fields.
Here are the links to each committee's respective Google group page:
Please contact citycom...@gccglobal.org if you have any questions.
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A Letter from GCC's Network Division
Hi everyone, and greetings from Texas. I am Wen Xing, the Director of Network. Last week, Sahil Khatod introduced GCC's new blog, "This Week in GCC" and told us about Media team. Now it's my turn to give you a tour of Network.
Network is one of eight divisions in GCC Management. The Network team maintains GCC's network of 60 university chapters all over the world, and an expansion team that is keenly looking for new university chapters. Thanks to the excellent work of the team, GCC network has undergone rapid growth and expansion in the past few years. In order to better lead the large number of our chapters, we've begun establishing Regional Committees that group chapters based on geographic location. Each committee will consist of five chapters, who work together and learn from each other throughout the year. A member from the Network Division will serve as chair to each committee, connecting chapters' management resources like project support and custom marketing materials.
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This week Network is developing a manual for each Regional Committee. We want to provide guidelines for incoming and future members of the Network team as well as chapter leaders, who will together lead regional committees. The manual has three parts: understanding GCC management, involving chapters, and management advice. Randy Wan (my amazing predecessor), the lovely Cindy Khor, the fun Snow Sisters (Snow Huo and Snow Wang), and I are working on it based on our past experiences as chapter officers. In the meantime, I am looking at a huge map laying on my floor with our 60 chapters marked, and drawing circles each with five chapters enclosed. This is more complicated than it sounds, since we need to consider the location, history, involvement, school culture, and more of each chapter in order to optimize our regional groups. Regardless, it's lots of fun and I am very excited about the upcoming year for GCC chapters!
If you have any suggestions or feedback about either the manual or the groupings, or if you simply want to know more about our Network Division, please do not hesitate to contact me. I can be reached at wen....@gccglobal.org.
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Another Reason for China to Go Slow on Yuan Revaluation
The U.S. and other of China’s largest trading partners have been arguing for years now that revaluing the yuan would be good for China’s economy. Sure, China might lose some jobs in the export sector as the yuan became more expensive in dollar and euro terms. But it would make up for that disadvantage by boosting the purchasing power of Chinese consumers — whose purchases would create jobs in other sectors of the economy, especially services.
A new International Monetary Fund report, however, warns China against expecting such a happy outcome.
To continue reading, click here.
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China and Germany ink $15bn trade deals as leaders meet
China and Germany have signed trade deals worth $15bn (£9bn) following meetings between the two country's leaders in the German capital Berlin.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also targeted an increase of bilateral trade to 200bn euros ($284bn; £178bn) over the next five years.
Germany is by far China's biggest trading partner in the European Union.
China and Germany are the two biggest exporters in the world.
Premier Wen said the focus of the meeting was to "boost the growth potential of bilateral trade... and to once again double our bilateral trade volume in five years".
The deals include an agreement between Airbus and China Aviation Supplies for delivery of 88 A320 planes with a list price of $7.5bn.
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China Risks Being Next Property-Bubble Blow Up
A recent decline in Chinese real-estate prices is starting to shake confidence in the country's economic vitality and open a debate about whether the country's economy is over-leveraged. That's what made the real-estate bubble's aftermath so painful for the U.S. and Japan.
Just two months ago, China expert Nicholas Lardy dismissed concerns about what he labeled a "so-called property bubble" during a conference at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.
Now, he says a housing downturn could produce a "major, major economic correction" in China, a view shared by other mainstream economists.
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