Time: Oct. 31- Nov. 1, 2013
Venue: Rm 205, School of Economics, Fudan University
Oct.31
8:30-9:20
Session 1: Opening
Welcome speech: Guanghua WAN / Ming LU (5 minutes each)
Opening speech (20 minutes each)
(1) Sudhir Krishna (Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India)
(2) Chuncheng LIU (Governor of Chifeng City)
9:20-10:30
Session 2-1: Overview of Research on Urbanization in China and India
Chair: Ming LU
Kala S Sridhar (Public Policy Research, Public Affairs Centre) and Om Mathur (National Institute of Urban Affairs): Overview of Research on Urbanization in India
Om Mathur (National Institute of Urban Affairs): Costs of Urbanization--China and India
Kala S. Sridhar (Public Policy Research, Public Affairs Centre): Asia’s Urbanization: Causes and Primacy
10:30-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-11:50
Session 2-2: Overview of Research on Urbanization in China and India
Ming LU 陆铭 (Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Fudan University): Urbanization in China: What Do We Know?
Guanghua WAN (Asian Development Bank): Concept Presentation on China-India Urbanization Comparison
LUNCH
13:30-15:00
Session 3: Urbanization and Urban System
Chair: Kala S. Sridhar
Zhao CHEN 陈钊 (Fudan University): The Determinants of the Size of Primary City: An International Comparison
Yuan ZHANG 章元 (Fudan University): Agricultural Productivity and Urbanization: China vs India
Jianfeng WU 吴建峰 (Fudan University): What drives the evolution of city size distribution in China? Evidence from the spatial shifts of manufacturing and service
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-17:15
Session 4: Wellbeing of Urban Development
Chair: Zhao CHEN
Surender Kumar (Delhi University): Relationship between Pollution and Urban Population Size
Siqi ZHENG 郑思齐 (Tsinghua University): Blue Skies in China
Chunbing XING 邢春冰(Beijing Normal University): Education Expansion, Migration and Rural–Urban Education Gap: A Case Study on the Effect of University Expansion
Jie CHEN 陈杰 (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics): Housing Poverty in Post-Reform Shanghai: Profiles and Decompositions
DINNER
Nov. 1
8:30-10:30
Session 5: Poverty, Inequality, Wellbeing
Chair: Om Mathur
Arup Mitra (Institute of Economic Growth): Agglomeration Economies and Well-being
Yang TANG (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): What is the optimal rate of urbanization? ---Faster growth v.s. less Inequality
Shihe FU 傅十和 (Xiamen University): Alleviate Traffic Congestion and Air Pollution in Chinese Cities: Policies and Evaluations
Dan LIU 刘丹 (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics): City Size and Income Inequality: Evidence from China
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:30
Roundtable discussion on future work
Chair: Guanghua WAN
LUNCH
15:30-17:00
Urbanization in China: Challenges and Policies (in Chinese)
Guanghua WAN, Xiaolu WANG（王小鲁）, Zhao CHEN and Ming LU
