Time: Oct. 31- Nov. 1, 2013

Venue: Rm 205, School of Economics, Fudan University


Oct. 31, 2013

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

Om Mathur (National Institute of Urban Affairs): 1) Costs of Urbanization: China and India; 2) Overview of Research on Urbanization in India

Kala S. Sridhar (Public Policy Research, Public Affairs Centre): 1) Asia’s urbanization: Causes and Primacy; 2) Overview of Research on Urbanization in India

10:30-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-11:50

Session 2-2: Overview of Research on Urbanization in China and India

Ming LU (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


13:30-15:00

Session 3: Urbanization and Urban System

Chair: Kala S. Sridhar

Zhao CHEN (Fudan University): The Determinants of the Size of Primary City: An International Comparison

Yuan ZHANG (Fudan University): Agricultural Productivity and Urbanization: China vs India

Jianfeng WU (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 (Delhi University): Relationship between Pollution and Urban Population Size

Siqi ZHENG (Tsinghua University): Blue Skies in China

Shihe FU (Xiamen Unviersity): Alleviate Traffic Congestion and Air Pollution in Chinese Cities: Policies and Evaluations

Chunbing XING (Beijing Normal University): Education Expansion, Migration and Rural–Urban Education Gap: A Case Study on the Effect of University Expansion


Nov. 1, 2013

8:30-10:30

Session 5: Poverty, Inequality, Wellbeing

Chair: Om Mathur

Arup Mitra (Institute of Economic Growth): Agglomeration Economies and Well-being

Jie CHEN (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics): Housing Poverty in Post-Reform Shanghai: Profiles and Decompositions

Yang TANG (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): What is the optimal rate of urbanization? ---Faster growth v.s. less Inequality

Dan LIU (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

15:30-17:00

Urbanization in China: Challenges and Policies (in Chinese)

Guanghua WAN, Xiaolu WANG, Zhao CHEN and Ming LU