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Research Seminar – Evaluating the Impacts of Major Urban and Sustainability Policies in China
14 December, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Research Seminar
Topic:
Evaluating the Impacts of Major Urban and Sustainability Policies in China
Speaker:
Prof. Siqi Zheng
Professor
Director of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate
Tsinghua University
Schedule:
Date: 14 December 2016 (Wednesday)
Time: 16:00-17:30
Venue: Room 820, 8/F, Knowles Building, HKU
Abstract:
Today roughly 700 million people live in Chinese cities. Over the next 30 years an additional 300 million Chinese people are likely to move to these cities. Dr. Zheng will discuss China’s recent efforts to achieve the dual goal of urban economic growth and enhanced environmental sustainability. Both growth and “blue skies” have key implications for urban real estate markets. Dr. Zheng will discuss her work on urban infrastructure investments and urban planning with a focus on the consequences of new subways, and industrial parks construction. Dr. Zheng will also discuss her real estate research that seeks to measure Chinese households’ rising demand for green cities. Such demand for quality of life improvements creates incentives for the central government to pressure the urban leaders to mitigate negative externalities, and the local leaders have taken actions suggesting that many Chinese urban residents will live in greener cities in the mid-term future.
About the Speaker:
Siqi Zheng is a professor, Director of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate, and Deputy Head of Department of Construction Management at Tsinghua University. Prof. Zheng’s field of specialization is urban economics, urban development and real estate market. Her work has appeared in leading journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Urban Economics. Her recent co-authored book Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China is published by Princeton University Press. She is the Associated Editor of Journal of Economic Surveys, and is on the editorial board of Journal of Housing Economics and International Real Estate Review. She is the Vice General Secretary of the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress and on the board of the Asian Real Estate Society. Her research is funded by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and National Natural Science Foundation of China, among others.
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