On February 18-20, 2013, the “2013 China’s Economic Performance Conference”, organized by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and hosted by the Institute of Population and Labour Economics, CASS, was held in Beijing. Wang Weiguang, Vice Secretary of CASS Party Group and Standing Deputy President, made the opening speech. Several CASS leaders, including Gao Quanli, Li Jie, Wu Yin, Liu Qiufang and Huang Haotao attended the conference. Li Yang, Member of CASS Party Group and Deputy President, gave the keynote presentation – “Several Questions in the Future of Chinese Economic Development”.

Within two-day conference, over 21 well-known scholars, including Liu Shucheng, Lv Zheng, Zhang Zhuoyuan, Pei Changhong, Jin Pei, Gao Peiyong, Cai Fang and others, discussed important issues relating to macro economic situation, finance, industry structure change, income distribution and employment, urbanization and ecological civilization.

There were over one hundred participants from the Economic Department and directors of CASS, institutes and universities, and Medias.