Moderator: Chen Xin (Professor, Executive Vice President and General Manager, China-CEE Institute)

Opening Remarks:

·       Chen Xin (Professor, Executive Vice President and General Manager, China-CEE Institute)

·       Veronika Antall-Horváth(Deputy Director, Antall József Knowledge Centre)

Keynote speech:

·      Sándor Sipos (Head of Department for Fastest Growing Economies, MFA) – TBC

·      Márta Mátrai (First Officer of the Hungarian National Assembly)– TBC

·      Huang Ping (Professor, Director General of Institute of European Studies, CASS; President, China-CEE Institute; Secretary-General of China-CEEC Think Tank Network)

Moderator:  Časlav Ocić (Academician, Full Member, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

·       Kong Tianping (Professor, Institute of European Studies, CASS)

Understanding China’s Road to Market Economy in Comparative Perspective

·       Martina Vetrovcova (PhD Candidate, University of Heidelberg)

The Power of Perceptions in International Relations: CEE and China in a New Era

·       Linas Eriksona, (PhD, Vilnius University Business School)

The media reporting on China’s development in Lithuania: the typology of China’s sentiment analysis

·       Georgiana Boboc (Research Fellow, the Romanian Institute for the Study of the Asia-Pacific)

A glimpse from afar: How Romania sees China’s development

·       Adela Gjorgjioska (PhD, Research Associate, European/International Joint Ph.D. in S.R. & C. Research Center and Multimedia Lab)

Varying anchors, differing perceptions? Examination of the representations of  China’s development held by three social groups in the Republic of Macedonia

Moderator: András Inotai (Senior Research fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

·       Miklós Losoncz (PhD, Budapest Business School, University of Applied Economics)

The perception of China’s development in the Hungarian economic literature between 2012 and 2018

·       Oana Cristina Popovici (PhD, Institute for Economic Forecasting, Romanian Academy)

Mirroring China’s development on CEE countries’ GDP and labour productivity

·       Csaba Moldicz (Professor, Vice-Dean for Research and International Issues Budapest Business School, University of Applied Science)

Difference Interpretations of the Chinese Economic Development in Hungary

·       Zhao Zaozao (Associate Professor, National Academy of Economic Strategy, CASS)

Reforming the Chinese Financial and Budgetary System  in Past 40 years– An Institutional Logics Perspective

·       Iulia Monica Oehler-Sincai (Research Fellow, Institute for World Economy, Romanian Academy)

China’s achievements in terms of development, a valuable asset influencing its perception in CEE

Moderator: Marek Hrubec (Professor, Czech Academy of Sciences)

·       Zhai Guoqiang (Professor, Law Institute, CASS)

Forty years of reform and opening up: The Development of Rule of Law in China

·       Henrietta Hegyi/Gergely Salát (Journalist/Associate Professor, Head of Institute of International Studies and Political Sciences, PPCE)

Chinese soft power in action: how Hungarian exchange students see China

·       Zhang Min (Professor, Institute of European Studies, CASS)

Forty years of reform and opening up: The process and actions for China’s participation in the international energy governance system

·       Eszter Lukács (Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs, Szce-Rect IstvvR University)

Chinese higher education after the Millennium – a Hungarian perspective

·       Bogdan Góralczyk (Director of the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw)

Does China have a development model?

Closing Remark: Prof. Huang Ping, Director General of Institute of European Studies, CASS; President, China-CEE Institute; Secretary-General of China-CEEC Think Tank Network