China’s “new normal”: structural change, better growth, and peak emissions

By 2014 delegate Fergus Green and Professor Stern

China has grown rapidly – often at double-digit rates – for more than three decades
by following a strategy of high investment, strong export orientation and energy-intensive
manufacturing. While this growth lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, it also heightened problems of inequality – personal, regional and urban-rural – and intensified pollution, congestion and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Special 2015 ACYD video address by Richard McGregor, Financial Times' Washington Bureau Chief

Special 2015 ACYD video address by Richard McGregor, Financial Times' Washington Bureau Chief

Richard McGregor (born 1958) is a journalist, writer and author. He was the chief political correspondent, Japan correspondent and China correspondent for The Australian. He also worked for the International Herald Tribune, the BBC and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He is the former bureau chief for the Financial Times. He has written The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers.

ACYD Founder is Awarded 2015 ANU Young Alumnus of the Year

On Saturday, 28 March, Henry Makeham, the ACYD’s Founder and Chair of the Board, was co-awarded the 2015 Australian National University Young Alumnus of the Year award. 
The Award recognised Henry’s efforts in promoting Australia-China youth relations and public diplomacy via the Australia-China Youth Dialogue, the Australia-China Youth Association, and the Australia-China Young Professionals Initiative.