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Founded in 1996, Columbia University Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CUCSSA) is a premier student organization dedicated to the promotion of dynamic social and cultural exchange between U.S. and China. CUCSSA strives to utilize the platform of Columbia University to bring together industry leaders, policy shapers and opinion makers from both countries to engage in candid and open discussion of different views. Each year, a variety of lectures, seminars and forums were held at Columbia University campus to benefit our students, alumni as well as the general public. The inauguration of the Columbia China Prospects Conference in 2010 aims to culminate the year-long-discourse in a single program. Within just two years of the running, the Conference has developed into one of the most influential student-organized conference on China in the U.S.. Our distinguished past guests include: Thomas Fingar, Former Principal Assistant Secretary of the United States, Zhiwu Chen, Professor from Yale School of Management, Shi Wang, Chairman of the Board of Directors of China Vanke Co., Ltd., and John Chen, Chairman and CEO of Sybase and Former Chairman of the Committee of 100. The theme of this year’s Conference is Leadership in Transition – China for Further Reform. The year of 2012 bears particular significance not only for China in and by itself, but also for the world and its relationship with China. The imminent economic soft landing in China, the lingering recession in the U.S, and the ongoing fiscal crises in Europe all pose serious challenges for continued international economic development and highlight the importance of strategic cooperation and genuine trust. This fall, we shall witness the leadership transition in the Communist Party in China and the presidential election in the United States. Together with the leadership change in many other powers including Russia, France and Taiwan, the international political landscape is undergoing reconfiguration that will bear on the peaceful rise that China earnestly seeks. Domestically in China, a new consensus seems to take shape that deepening reform is the only option to stimulate China’s continued development, yet the central question is how. The growing role of the media, the awakening of individual rights and the budding civil society all suggest that the reform would be multi-dimensional. The Conference expects to receive over 800 participants, including students and academians at Columbia and other leading universities, as well as young and experienced professionals desiring to deepen their knowledge about China’s transformation. The Conference is officially sponsored by the Columbia Global Center in Beijing. The 3rd Columbia China Prospects Conference invites you to engage in an educational discussion with high-caliber panelists across the industries and participants from a diverse background.