On March 25, 2017, Forum on Real Estate and Urban Policy was held at our institute. The organizer of this event – IESR Associate Dean Prof. Sisi Zhang. The forum focused on China’s real estate market policies, housing price fluctuations, urban development, and other related topics, thus serving as a great platform for effective academic discussion, exchange of ideas and important policy proposals.
60 representatives from Chinese academia as well as local real estate industry have gathered at the forum, of whom 8 experts and researchers delivered reports on current real estate price tendencies and market characteristics, mortgage risks, the impact of land price and land policy on housing prices, senior care real estate industry in China, the mode of shantytowns transformation, and other hot topics.
The main speakers at the Forum on Real Estate and Urban Policy:
· Suisheng Cai, President of Guangdong Real Estate Association, Professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Design, University of Hong Kong: China’s Real Estate Already Entered the Era of Financial Capital
· Weida Kuang, Associate Dean and Professor at the Department of Finance, School of Business, Renmin University of China: Current Interest Rate Policy in China to Increase Mortgage Risk
· Weizheng Sun, Associate Researcher at IESR: Massive Growth of Tianjin Second-Hand Housing in 2016: Tianhe – the Busiest Commercial District in Guangzhou
· Zhuowen Zhao, General Manager at Guangzhou TCZY Real Estate Investment Consulting Inc.: Housing Prices in Guangzhou: On the Rise for at Least Next 10 Years
· Li Zhang, Director at the Department of Economics, International School of Business & Finance, Sun-Yat Sen University: Government Actions Led to the House Price Growth: The Increase in Regional Disparity
· Xiaoming Li, Associate General Manager at one of the senior care centers for the elderly: Chinese Senior Care Industry to Become the Most Important One in the Future?
· Yina Zhang, Secretary-General at the Urban Development Institute, Fudan University: Big Data on Urban Population Behavior: The Data Representing Overall Urban Development
· Qian Zhou, Postdoc at Tagen Group (Shenzhen): Pre-Contract Agreements,Relocation Incentives, or How to Improve the Progress of Shantytown Renovation Projects
