8:30-9:00am: Registration

9:00-9:30 am: Opening Session

Location: Haydon Allen Lecture Theatre

Chair: Ross Garnaut

Welcome Remark: Andrew MacIntyre

Opening Address: Wing Thye Woo

Welcome Speech: Chunlai Chen, President of ACESA  

9:30-11:30am: Plenary Session 1 (Chinese Economy after WTO)

Location: Haydon Allen Lecture Theatre

Chair: Ligang Song

Cost Distortion and Abnormal Prosperity in China
Yiping Huang

How Effective are China 's Capital Controls?
Guonan Ma

Reforming China 's Exchange Arrangements
Huw McKay

Pattern and Sustainability of China 's Economic Growth
Xiaolu Wang

Service Sector Reform Options: the Experience of China
Christopher Findlay

Stepping Stones to Market Integration: the Role of Economic and
Technological Development Zones
Wei Zhang

Discussion  

11:30-11:45am: Morning Tea  

11:45am-12:45pm: Plenary Session 2 (Agricultural and Resource Economics)

Location: Haydon Allen Lecture Theatre

Chair: Jane Golley

China 's Agricultural Development and Policy
Jikun Huang

The Impact of ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement on China 's Economy with a
Special Emphasis on Agriculture
Chunlai Chen, & Jun Yang

How Mobile are Resources in Chinese Agriculture? --- Implications for China 's Agricultural
Trade Policy
Funing Zhong, Jing Zhu, & Zhengqin Xie

Wage Growth and Turnover of Workers: Evidence from Shoes Factories
Xin Meng

Discussion  

12:45-2:00pm: Lunch  

2:00-3:30pm: Parallel Sessions  

Parallel Session 1 (WTO and China )

Parallel Session 2 (Postgraduate Session)

Location: HA G052

Chair:  Fuming Wang

China and WTO Transparency Requirements
Vivienne Bath

What Does an APFTA Mean to China ?
Tingsong Jiang

Financial Reform in Post-WTO China
Zhiyun Zhao, & Chaofeng Yang

Discussion

Location: HA G053

Chair:  Lilai Xu

Spatial Price Difference and Regional
Income Inequality in Urban China
1986-2001: Estimation and Implication
Cathy Gong, & Xin Meng

Export Spillovers of FDI: Evidence from
Micro-data in China
Sizhong Sun

An Investigation of Relationship
between Energy Consumption
and International Trade in China
Wei Sun

Discussion

3:30-3:50pm: Afternoon Tea  

3:50-5:20pm: Parallel Sessions  

Parallel Session 3 (Agricultural and Resource Economics)

Parallel Session 4 (Postgraduate Session)

Location: HA G052

Chair:  Jikun Huang

China 's Grain TRQs: Five Years since WTO Accession
Zhang-Yue Zhou, & Xia Kang

Food Quality and Safety: Progress and Challenges
Nicky Seaby

Economic Assessment of the Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Program in China
Xuehong Wang, & Jeff Bennett

Discussion  

Location: HA G053

Chair:  Yuk-Shing Cheng

China 's Free Trade Agreements and Implications for the WTO
Yang Jiang

What is Meant by “External Balance” in the Chinese Context?
Luke Deer

Institutional Change and Workplace Safety in Chinese Coal industry: 1995-2003
Xunpeng Shi

Discussion

5:20-9:30pm: Conference Dinner*

  * kindly sponsored by Education Office, Embassy of People’s Republic of China in Australia

Welcome address by Madam Xiaoyue Zhu, the Minister Counsellor of Education of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Australia

Venue: Turkish Pidehouse Restaurant, Civic

9:00-10:30am: Plenary Session 3 (Macro and Regional Economy)

Location: Haydon Allen Lecture Theatre

Chair: Zhangyue Zhou

Capital Stock Estimates for China 's Regional Economies
Yanrui Wu

Inter-Regional Spillovers of Policy Shocks in China
Nicolaas Groenewold, Anping Chen, & Guoping Lee

Agglomeration, Market Concentration and Firms' Technical Efficiency in Gansu
Jane Golley, & Sizhong Sun

Discussion

10:00-10:20am: Morning Tea  

10:40-12:10am: Plenary Session 4 (Macro and Regional Economy)

Location: Haydon Allen Lecture Theatre

Chair: Yanrui Wu

China 's Administrative Hierarchy and Rural-urban Disparity
Yuk-Shing Cheng

To Set Up a Business in China ? Where to Invest Next? --an Investigation on China 's Industry
Mei Wen

Changes of Foreign Direct Investment in China's Manufacturing after WTO Accession
Chunlai Chen  

The Sectoral Impact of the RMB Appreciation on the World Economy
James Xiaohe Zhang

Discussion  

12:10-1:30pm: Lunch  

1:30-3:00pm: Parallel Sessions  

Parallel Session 5 (Micro Economy)

Parallel Session 6 (Agricultural and Resource Economics)

Location: HA G052

Chair:  Xiaohe Zhang

The Evaluation of Sustainable Development for the Central Regions of China Based on Ecological Footprint Model
Xibing Huang, Haidong Li, Dingtao Zhao

China in WTO: Cheap Labor Will Be Lasting?
Fei Lin

China 's Demand for Energy: a Global Perspective
Ligang Song, & Yu Sheng

Discussion

Location: HA G053

Chair:  Funing Zhong

Who Is Going to Supply the Milk to China 's South?
Jimin Wang, Zhangyue Zhou, Qiuhong Shen

Potential Effects of Blue Box Policy Reform on Domestic Support in Agriculture
Laping Wu, & Jie Cheng

Dynamics of Meat Consumption in China
Hongbo Liu, Kevin A. Partonb, Zhangyue Zhou, Rodney Cox, & Hai Zhao

Discussion

3:00-3:20pm: Afternoon Tea  

3:20-4:40pm: Plenary Session 5 (Micro Economy)

Location: Haydon Allen Lecture Theatre

Chair: Chunlai Chen

Strategies for Reducing Risk in the Knowledge Management Activities of Chinese Organizations: A Post-WTO Perspective
Mike Berrell, & Marianne Gloet

Foreign Banks in China : What You Know and What You Don't
Lilai Xu

Challenges and Opportunities to China 's Textile Export in Post-WTO
Fuming Wang

Component Trade and China 's Global Economic Integration
Kunwang Li, Ligang Song, & Xingjun Zhao

Discussion  

4:40-5:20pm: Closing Panel Discussion: the Prospects of Chinese Economy

Location: Haydon Allen Lecture Theatre

Chair: Ross Garnaut

Panel: Wing Thye Woo, Guonan Ma, Xiaolu Wang, Wei Zhang, Jikun Huang, Funing Zhong  

5:20-5:50pm: ACESA Annual Meeting