Can China Use its Great Leap Forward in Science & Engineering to Innovate, Ameliorate Pollution, and Reduce the Rural-Urban Divide?

Richard B. Freeman，Herbert Ascherman Chair Professor in Economics at Harvard University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science

Host: LAI Desheng, Dean of Business School at Beijing Normal University
Comments: ZHANG Juwei, President of Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, President of Chinese Academy of Labor Economics.
Time: 14:30-16:00, November 24^th, 2016
Place: Multi Function B, Jingshi Building at Beijing Normal University

Abstract:

Prof. Freeman will lay out the Giant Leap Forward in Science and Engineering, then examine indicators of innovativeness, and turn to the question of applying sci-tech innovation in rural areas. He has ideas and some examples about how availability of highway and modern transportation+mobile phone can combine with agriculture research to improve rural China and ways some a bit of reverse migration from urban to rural could help raise innovation in rural areas and improve incomes.