He delivered a report on Chinese Studies in South Europe and a series of CPC Studies research questions and called for closer cooperation between Chinese think tanks and European think tanks.
Liu Yunshan 刘云山, a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of theCPC, and other high-level officials, also took part in the meeting.
Research questions for CPC studies:
- Is the CPC a political party or is it the entire political system? Can it really be compared to political parties in Western liberal democracies?
- If the most important task of the CPC from the historical point of view was the planning of the economy, and if the CPC renounces central planning of the economy, what is now the most important task of the CPC?
- If power comes from the people, and power is exercised on behalf of the people, how can the CPC demonstrate that it is accountable to the people?
- What is the importance of economy of scale in political matters? If the EU seems to have learned that it is necessary to create a centralised bureaucracy based on meritocracy --the European Commission-- in order to guarantee planning and continuity (something the Chinese political culture invented thousands of years ago), as well as the separate branches of government (executive, legislative, judiciary), and China already has the centralised bureaucracy, does the CPC need to experiment with the separation of powers that was developed by European political philosophy?
- What is the future of "one country, two (or more) systems"?
- Should meritocracy as the basis for being selected for a governing position include people who do not belong to the CPC?
- If Chinese people say that they have been accustomed for thousands of years to being selected rather than to being elected, in what circumstances does the CPC see elections as a valid and efficient process of selection?
Members
of the Chinese delegation:
- Liu Yunshan 刘云山，Secretary of the CPC central committee, headmaster of Party School of the CPC
- Chen Xi 陈希，Vice-Minister of Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee
- Liu Biwei 刘碧伟，Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in the Kingdom of Denmark
- Li Jinjun 李进军，Vice-Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee
- Guo Yezhou 郭业洲，Vice-Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee，Chairman of the Council of China Center for Contemporary World Studies
- Jiang Jinquan 江金权，vice-director of Central Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, general secretary of Party-building leadership of the CPC Central Committee
- Ding Wei 丁伟，vice minister of China’s Ministry of Culture
- Sun Haiyan 孙海燕, Director of the China Center for Contemporary World Studies (CCCWS)
European scholars:
- Mr Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Professor and Director of the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School.
- Mr Sebastian Heilmann, the founding director of the national Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin and professor for the political economy of China at the University of Trier, Germany.
- Mr Frank Pieke, chair professor in modern China studies at Leiden University.
- Mr Stig Thøgersen,
- professor of China Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.
- Mr. Martin Jacques, Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
- Mr. Sean Golden, full Professor of East Asian Studies and Director of the East Asian Studies & Research Centre – CERAO at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
- Mr Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
- Mr Flemming Christiansen, Sociological Institute and Institute of East Asian Studies, The University of Duisburg-Essen.
- Mr Zhengxu Wang, Associate Professor at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham.
- Mr Nis Grünberg, PhD Fellow at Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School.
- Ms Sarah Eaton, Associate Professor in Contemporary China Studies at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford.
- Mr Giovanni Andornino, Assistant Professor of International Relations of East Asia at the University of Torino (Italy); Vice President of the Torino World Affairs Institute.
- Mr Daniele Brombal, Assistant Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies of Venice Ca' Foscari University (Italy).
- Mr Nis Høyrup Christensen, Assistant Professor at Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School.
- Mr Andreas Mulvad, PhD Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen.
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