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Shaping the Future

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Reform resolution was the key message from the recent Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. More than 300 reform measures were announced, from deepening reform itself to expanding opening up, promoting high quality innovation at home to making China a first-class business environment for foreign investors.

The Third Plenum set out an expansive and inclusive plan for the future. It is, as Han Wenxiu,  Executive Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission put it – "a significant opportunity for the world."

So, on this special programme - Shaping the Future, Juliet Mann speaks to experts from across the globe to get their take on the economic, technological and geopolitical advances envisioned at the Third Plenum. She’s joined by Alfred Schipke, Director of the East Asian Institute and Professor of the Practice of International Finance at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Markus Hermann Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Director of China Macro Group, Michele Geraci, , Visiting Professor of Finance and Economics at New York University Shanghai and Former Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, Thorsten Jelinek, senior fellow and Europe director at the Taihe Institute, Erik Baark, Professor Emeritus at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Vuk Jeremič, Former Foreign Minister of Serbia and Former President of the UN General Assembly.