1st China-Nordic High-Level Think Tank Forum

Hosted by:

• Central Compilation and Translation Bureau (CCTB)
• Fujian Normal University (FNU)
• Institute for Security &Development Policy (ISDP)
• Organizers: High-Level Think Tank Office, CCTB
• Schoolof Public Administration, FNU

 

December 12, 2017 (Tuesday)

Registration

December 13, 2017 (Wednesday)

9:00-9:30 Opening Ceremony

Chair: Lai Hairong,Vice President,FNU

• Ji Zhengju,Deputy Director, CCTB
• Niklas Swanström,Executive Director, ISDP

9:30-10:30 Session 1,China-Nordic Relationsin a New Era

Chair: Niklas Swanström (Executive Director, ISDP)

• Global Governance: New Cooperation of China and Nordic Countries – Feng Zhongping (Vice President, Research Professor, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations)
• China-Nordic Relation and Japan’s Role – Lars Vargö (Distinguished Fellow, ISDP)
• Energy Conversion in China-Europe Relations and Nordic’s Role – Cui Hongjian (Director of Department forEuropean Studies, China Institute of International Studies)

10:30-11:00 Group Photo & Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Session 2, BRI and China-Nordic Cooperation (1)

Chair: Feng Zhongping (Vice President, Research Professor, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations)

Sino-European Cooperation and Clashes in the Balkans – Niklas Swanström (Executive Director, ISDP)

China’s Security Policy and its Implication for BRI – Yao Yunzhu (Research Fellow, Academy of Military Sciences PLA China)

Challenges and Barriers to Sino-Nordic Arctic Collaboration –Greenland as an Example – Birger Poppel (Project Chief, Institute of Social Science, Economics and Journalism, University of Greenland) 

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:10 Session 3, BRI and China-Nordic Cooperation (2)

Chair: Zeng Shengcong (Professor, Dean of School of Public Administration, FNU)

BRI and Chinese investments-in Norwegian, Nordic,European and global perspectives – Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr (Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; Postdocin Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen)

BRI and China-Nordic Cooperation – Liu Minru (Associate Researcher, Director of Research Management Department, CCTB)

China’s Great Power Role Development and BRI – Teemu Naarajärvi (Research Fellow, Department ofWorld Cultures，University of Helsinki)

China and International (Dis)order: Perception, Performance and Prospects – Bao Chuanjian (Assistant Researcher, Center for Overseas Contemporary China Studies CCTB)

15:10-15:40 Coffee Break

15:40-16:50 Session4, Think Tanks Exchange: Acceleration of China-Nordic Cooperation

Chair: Liu Minru (Associate Researcher, Director of Research Management Department, CCTB)

Sino-Nordic-Arctic Relations and Understanding of Citizenship and Indigenous Identities -Greenland as an Example – Marie-Kathrine Poppel (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Greenland)

Comparison of Social Welfare Systems in China and the Nordics – Huang Ningying (Associate Professor, School of Publich Administration, FNU)

Magnus Jorem（Programme Managerof Nordic Center, Fudan University）

High-Level Think Tanks with Chinese Characteristics in the Context of Globalization – Zhang Xiang(Associate Professor, School of Public Administration, FNU)

16:50-17:10 Closing Remarks

Niklas Swanström (Executive Director, ISDP)

Liu Minru (Associate Researcher, Director of Research Management Department, CCTB)

18:00 Dinner