![Shanghai: Towards a Sustainable Food Future: Feeding China’s Urban Billion [Tuesday, December 4]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Peggy-Liu.png)
Nov 16, 2018
China is grappling with a daunting conundrum: how to feed nearly one-fifth of the world’s population with less than one-tenth of its farmland. China’s 1.4 billion people are building up an appetite that is changing the way the world grows and sells food. Thirty years...
![Shanghai : China and India – Thirsty Cities and the Delivery of Public Goods [Thursday, November 8]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Selina-Ho.jpeg)
Oct 25, 2018
YCW Shanghai welcomes Selina Ho to lead a talk about why China provides a higher level of public goods than India. She will discuss her forthcoming book on how China and India differ in their approach to providing education, healthcare, public transportation, and...
![Shanghai – Even Closer China-Africa Community? with Eric Olander [Thursday, October 11]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/eric-olander.jpg)
Oct 3, 2018
As the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), the triennial official forum between China and all the African states with the exception of Eswatini, took place in Beijing in early September 2018, YCW Shanghai invites Eric Olander to speak...
![Shanghai – Understanding China’s Social Credit System: Vision and State of Implementation
with Mareike Ohlberg [Thursday, September 20]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mareike_Ohlberg_press.jpg)
Sep 16, 2018
China’s Social Credit System, a novel big data-enabled toolkit for monitoring, rating, and steering the behavior of market participants, is proposed as a cure-all solution to a multitude of social and economic challenges in China. With several social credit pilots...
![Shanghai – The Future of China’s Travel Industry: Hot tubs and Bar Streets? with Brian Linden [Monday, September 17]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Brian.jpg)
Sep 3, 2018
Brian’s talk will focus on tourism policy challenges facing China’s government as it tries to balance quick profit and economic gain with cultural and environmental sustainability. Brian and his wife, Jeanee, became one of the first foreign couples to gain...
