China

More details on the RSA China Division and how to join can be found on the RSA China Division Website or by emailing the Division Secretary.

You can read more about the RSA China Division on the 2025 China Division postcard

PAST EVENTS

2024 RSA China Division Annual Conference

“Developing New Productive Forces to Promote High-Quality Regional Development”

School of Economics,  Sichuan University, China

November 15-17th, 2024

The conference focussed on the theme of “Developing New Productive Forces to Promote High-Quality Regional Development,” addressing key issues such as new theories and methods in high-quality regional development, new productive forces, regional strategies, regional coordination, spatial governance, dual carbon goals, innovation-driven development, restructuring of global production and financial networks, new urbanization, urban-rural integration, rural revitalization, metropolitan areas, and urban clusters. We warmly welcome scholars from around the world to exchange new theories and methods in regional studies and explore how to develop new productive forces to support high-quality regional development, thereby advancing the field of regional research.

The event was a great success, with over 240 scholars from more than 80 prestigious Chinese universities participating. The conference featured 19 parallel sessions and six keynote speeches delivered by renowned scholars, including Fulong Wu and Canfei He. Zhouying gave a presentation introducing RSA and played a video message from Alan Kinder, which effectively conveyed his greetings and well wishes to all attendees. During the event, scholars engaged in extensive and fruitful discussions.

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PAST EVENTS

Area Development and Policy 2024 Annual Lecture:  Urbanization in the ‘big ring’: theses on cities, fossil energy, and the metabolic churn of capital

Sponsor Group(s): AAG Climate Action Task Force, China Specialty Group, Climate Specialty Group, Urban Geography Specialty Group

Organizer(s):  Shenjing He, University of Hong Kong; Weidong Liu, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Junxi Qian, The University of Hong Kong

Chair: Shenjing He, University of Hong Kong

Programme:

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31 January 2024   学术期刊出版和与中国编辑见面会

学术期刊出版和与中国编辑见面会

本次网络研讨会和RSA中国分会、RSA学术期刊以及出版商Taylor and Francis合作举办。会议将介绍区域研究、政策和科学领域的重要学术期刊，对当前学术出版实践提供见解，并提供与期刊编辑互动交流的机会，以了解更多关于具体期刊及其出版选择的相关内容。

本次网络研讨会是为华人社区设计的，请注意本次研讨会将以中文进行。

Academic Journal Publishing and Meet the Editors Session in China

Organised in partnership with the RSA’s China Division, the RSA Journals and the publisher, Taylor and Francis, this webinar will introduce key academic journals in regional studies, policy and science, provide insights into current practices in academic publishing and opportunities to interact and engage with journal editors to learn more about the specific journal and its publishing options.

This webinar was designed for our Chinese community. Please note that this webinar was delivered in Chinese.

More details here.

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2023 RSA China Division Annual Conference

December 1-3, 2023

Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, International Exchange Center (Jinghuayuan Hotel).

To better serve the strategic goals and demands of the high-quality regional development and promote innovative development in the area of regional research, Regional Studies Association China Division and Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University held the 2023 RSA China Division Annual Conference from December 1^st to December 3^rd, 2023 at the Zhuhai campus of Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China.

Themed on “The Chinese path to modernization and high-quality regional development”, 2023 RSA China Division Annual Conference mainly focussed on the new concepts, new technologies, new methods, national and regional strategies, regional coordination, spatial governance, sustainable development, innovation-driven, global production and financial network reconstruction, new modes of urbanization, rural revitalization and other related topics on the high-quality in the regional development.

We warmly welcomed all scholars both from domestic and abroad to exchange new theories, methods, and technologies and explore the new opportunities, positioning, and paradigms of the regional research, and jointly promote the prosperity and development of the regional research.

Plenary Lecture:

1. Several Key Technical Issues in Regional Development Research. Lecturer: Changqing, Song, Dean of Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University
2. The Chinese Model: Theoretical Construction Beyond the Debate between Market and Government. Lecturer: Weidong, Liu, Director of Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
3. How does the regional economy respond to external shocks? Lecturer: Canfei, He, President of College of Urban and Environmental Science, Peking University
4. Urban Development and Governance in China: National Entrepreneurship. Lecturer: Fulong, Wu, Professor of University of London
5. Dynamic Game: How to Shape Innovation-Driven Regional Development in the Relationship between Government and Enterprise. Lecturer: Jiang Xu, Head and Professor of the Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hongkong
6. Cross-border healthcare and cross-border mobility in the Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao Greater Bay Area. Lecturer: Shenjing, He, Head and Professor of the Department of Urban Planning and Design; Executive Vice President of the Urban Systems Institute at the University of Hong Kong

Please note: The China Division is a limited agent for the Regional Studies Association but without any authority to incur financial liability for that Association.