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UCI Hosted Third Urban Leaders Roundtable in 2013
24/05/2013May 15, 2013, Beijing – The Urban China Initiative (UCI) hosted the third Urban Leaders Roundtable in 2013, featuring around 20 urban experts from the government, enterprises and academia sharing insights on the current status, challenges and outlook of China’s urban financing.
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Multi-Sector Experts Share Insights on Urban Financing at Joint UCI-MGI Seminar
24/05/2013May 15, 2013, Beijing – The Urban China Initiative (UCI) and the McKinsey Global Institute jointly hosted a seminar on Wednesday, featuring around 40 economists and urban experts from the government, enterprises and academia sharing insights on the current status, challenges and outlook of China’s urban financing.
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UCI and CCUD Experts Join Top-rated Urban Webcast Discussion
27/03/2013Invited by “Urban Dialogue”, Jonathan Woetzel, co-chair of the Urban China Initiative (UCI) and director of McKinsey & Company; and Herbert Pohl, leader of McKinsey’s infrastructure practice in Middle East & Africa, joined Li Tie, director of the China Center for Urban Development (CCUD) of the National Development and Reform Commission, to discuss China’s urbanization from an international perspective.
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Urban Leaders Share Insights on China Infrastructure Productivity at UCI Roundtable
27/03/2013The Urban China Initiative (UCI) hosted its quarterly Urban Leaders Roundtable on March 18 in Beijing, featuring seventeen leading figures from the public, private and academic sectors heatedly discussing China’s infrastructure productivity issues. Herbert Pohl, director of McKinsey & Company and a leader of its infrastructure practice in Middle East & Africa, and Ren Hong, deputy director of the Department of Basic Industries under the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) delivered keynote speeches.
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UCI Announces 2013 Grant Project Awards
06/02/2013Standing out in tough competition, five research proposals are awarded by the Urban China Initiative as 2013 Grant Projects and three are to be incorporated into UCI flagship researches.
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