- DPM Teo Chee Hean to give the opening address
- DPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam to speak at the closing dialogue
- Infocomm and Media: Eddie Wu and James Sheng, Alibaba’s Co-Founders; Forrest Li, Founder, Chairman & Group CEO, Garena; Jason Si, Executive Dean, Tencent Research Institute
- Healthcare and Pharma: Liang Xinjun, Executive Director, Vice Chairman & CEO, Fosun Group; Li Ge, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Wuxi AppTec; Dr Loo Choon Yong, Executive Chairman, Raffles Medical Group
- Electric Vehicles: Wang Chuanfu, Chairman, Executive Director & President, BYD Company Limited; Jeroen Pynenburg, General Manager, ABB Shenzhen New Energy System Co.; Dr Wang Junwei, Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Finance and Banking: Cao Yunchuan, Deputy General Manager, ICBC Singapore; Tan Teck Long, Group Head of Large Corporates and Chief Operating Officer of Institutional Banking Group, DBS Bank; Ling Hai, Co-President, Asia Pacific, MasterCard
- Consumer Goods and Logistics: Teo Siong Seng, Managing Director, Pacific International Lines; Dr Sarasin Viraphol, Executive Vice President, Charoen Pokphand Group (Thailand)
- Leading Diplomats and Academics: Amb Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-Large, Singapore; Amb Chen Xiaodong, China’s Ambassador to Singapore; David Shambaugh, Founding Director, China Policy Program, George Washington University, USA
Singapore, 29 June 2016 – Business China is bringing together leading entrepreneurs from China, Singapore and the region to share on the opportunities the new economy brings. To be held on 18 and 19 July, 2016 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, the FutureChina Global Forum 2016 covers various industries and across borders as leading practitioners gather to share insights and perspectives with the audience, and build relations with industry peers.
DPM Teo will give the opening address and provide a strategic overview of the macro environment, the changing Chinese economy and the role that Singapore and the region plays amidst such a backdrop. DPM Tharman will speak at the closing dialogue and go in depth into the various facets of the new economy.
More than 50 speakers will share how their industries and business is reacting to and shaping the new economy. The illustrious line up of speakers includes top representatives from leading companies. From the Co-Founders of Alibaba, Mr Eddie Wu and Mr James Sheng to the Chairman, Executive Director & President of BYD, Mr Wang Chuanfu whose electric vehicles ply the streets of Singapore. From Mr Liang Xinjun, Executive Director, Vice Chairman & CEO of Fosun Group, which has spent $30 billion in overseas acquisitions, to Dr Sarasin, Executive Vice President of CP Group, Thailand’s largest private company.
Leading diplomats and academics, including Amb Tommy Koh, Amb Chen Xiaodong and Prof David Shambaugh will also discuss the geopolitical dynamics underpinning the structural changes affecting economies in the region.
The Future China Global Forum 2016, themed “Transformation or Stagnation: What the new economy heralds for China and the region?” is ambitious in its breadth and depth. The Forum is expecting a turnout of about 400 policy makers, top business leaders, executives and renowned academia.
Join the forum to be part of this conversation and use the opportunity to gain insights and inroads across borders, across industries, and into the brave new world.
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For more information, please contact:
Deng Shiying (Ms)
Senior Associate (Corporate Communications)
Business China
Email: shiying@businesschina.org.sg
About FutureChina Global Forum
The FutureChina Global Forum is the only Forum going beyond the usual discussions on China’s economic and political evolution to provide a holistic perspective of how China is evolving, the various drivers of change and how they interact with one another. The formats of discussion and the layout of the venue are designed to promote genuine, candid discussions as well as a high level of interaction.
For more information, visit www.futurechina.sg.
About Business China
Launched in November 2007 by Founding Patron and Singapore’s Founding Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Business China’s mission is to nurture an inclusive bilingual and bicultural group of Singaporeans through extensive use of the Chinese language as the medium of communication, so as to sustain our multi-cultural heritage, and to develop a cultural and economic bridge linking the world and China.
For more information, visit www.businesschina.org.sg/en.