Highlight: "Panel Discussion" sessions
Some of Hong Kong's most influential and dynamic business leaders and professionals are brought together to share views with The Brains Behind on the current crucial economic issues.

25 November 2008 (Tue)
0900 Registration
  0915 Opening Ceremony
Welcome Remarks
Professor POON Chung-kwong, GBS, JP
President, PolyU

  0930 Presentation
China’s Macro-economic Situation and Policy

Prof YU Yongding
Director of IWEP, CASS

  1000 Presentation
Opportunities in China under a new International Economic Order

Dr TANG Min
Deputy Secretary General, China Development Research Foundation of the Development Research Center

  1030 Presentation 
Enlightenment from Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Dr ZUO Xiaolei
Chief Economist, China Galaxy Securities

  1100 Refreshment Break

  1115

Panel Discussion (1): Macro-economic development
Chairman
• Mr KC KWOK, BBS, JP
  Former Government Economist for the HKSAR
• Mr Ronnie C. CHAN
  Chairman, Hang Lung Properties Ltd
Panel members
• Prof YU Yongding
• Dr TANG Min
• Dr ZUO Xiaolei

• Dr CHAN Man Hung Thomas
  Head, China Business Centre, PolyU
• Dr LUI Sun-wing
  Vice President (Partnership Development), PolyU
• Dr Harry X. WU
  Associate Professor, School of Accounting and Finance, PolyU

  1230 Lunch Break (free time)

  1400

Presentation
Corporate Governance: Challenge and Strategy

Dr LU Tong
Director of Research Section of Multinational Corporations, IWEP, CASS

  1430

Presentation
The Predicaments and Chances of China M&A

Mr WANG Wei
Chairman, China Mergers & Acquisition Association

  1500

Presentation
Taxation System, Policy & Reform in China
Dr JIA Kang
Director of the Institute for Fiscal Science Research, Ministry of Finance

  1530 Refreshment Break

  1545 Panel Discussion (2): Business Environment & Financial Policy
Chairman
Prof Judy TSUI
  Associate Vice President, Dean of the Faculty of Business,
  Director of the Graduate School of Business and Chair Professor of Accounting,
  PolyU

Dr Eric LI Ka-cheung, GBS, OBE,JP
  Senior partner, Li, Tang, Chen & Co., Certified Public Accountants
Panel members
• Dr LU Tong
• Mr WANG Wei
• Dr JIA Kang
• Mr Oscar V.T. CHOW
  Executive Director, Chevalier Group
• Mr Cliff SUN, BBS, JP
  Deputy Chairman, Federation of Hong Kong Industries
• Mr James WONG Lung Wo
  CEO, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Ltd

  1700 Closing Remarks

  1705 End of theSymposium