Former senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank, Justin Yifu Lin, presents his view of the Chinese economy's future at the Forecast of China’s Economy for 2019. Hosted annually by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and Peking University’s China Center for Economic Research, this year's half-day conference was held at the Citigroup Center on January 10, 2019.
Justin Yifu Lin, Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, is director of Center for New Structural Economics, dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and professor and honorary dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He was the senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012.