April 9, 2012

SAIS celebrates 25 years of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center

Hong Yinxing, professor of economics and chancellor of Nanjing University, will give the keynote address at an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies at 4 p.m. today, April 9, at SAIS, which administers the center’s activities on behalf of Johns Hopkins.

Hong will discuss “An Analysis of the Chinese Macroeconomy.” He will give his remarks in Mandarin with simultaneous translation provided.

Author of numerous books and articles, he was selected by The Chinese Market magazine in 2001 as one of the 25 economists who has substantial influence on China’s market economy.

Established in 1986, the center, located in Nanjing, China, is a postgraduate educational joint venture between Johns Hopkins and Nanjing universities.

A live webcast of the event will be available at www.sais-jhu.edu/pressroom/live.html.

The event will be held in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to ctownsley@jhu.edu.