Past and Future in China-Canada Relations
Nov. 11 Thursday
8:40       Pick up by SIIS staff to conference venue
 
Conference Venue: Multi-functional Hall, 1st floor
Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)
                             195-15, Tianlin Road, Shanghai (Tel: 021 5461 4900)
 
9:00-9:30      Opening: Welcome Remarks
       Chair: Prof. Chen Dongxiao (Vice President, SIIS)
       Speakers: (5 minutes for each)
Zhao Weiping, Deputy Director-General, Department of North America and Oceanian Affairs, Foreign Ministry of China
Lu Congmin, Vice Chairman, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress of China
Jack Austin, Senator (retired) of Canada
Paul Evans, Director, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia (UBC)
Yang Jiemian, President, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)
 
9:30-9:45      Group Photo (Lobby, SIIS)
 
9:45-12:15    Session One: History Review
       Chair: Prof. Paul Evans
Speakers: (30 minutes for each)
Amb. Mei Ping
              Prof. Bernie Frolic
              Amb. Chen Wenzhao
              Prof. Lu Congmin
 
Discussion
 
12:30-14:00 Lunch (buffet, 2nd floor, Building A, Ramada Plaza Caohejing )
 
14:30-17:00 Session Two: Assessment of the China-Canada Relationship in Strategic Perspective 
       Chair: Amb. Mei Ping
14:30-15:30 Speakers:
Sen. Jack Austin and Miro Cernetig
              Prof. Zhao Gancheng
              Prof. Zhu Yinghuang
             
       15:30-16:00        Break
 
16:00-17:00         Discussion
 
      
18:00 Dinner (Private Restaurant, 3rd floor, Building A, Ramada Plaza Caohejing)
 
 
 
Nov. 12 Friday
 
8:40       Pick up by SIIS staff to conference venue
 
9:00-11:45    Session Three: Specific Cooperation in future
       Chair:
       9:00-10:30 Speakers
Amb. Zhang Wenpu
Prof. John Wiebe
Amb. Zhou Xingbao
Prof. Gordon Houlden
Amb. Zhou Shijian
Prof. Paul Evans
              Prof. Zhang Haibing
    10:30-10:45 Break
       10:45-11:45  Discussion
      
11:45 - 12:00    Final Remarks
              Chair:
Sen. Jack Austin
              Amb. Mei Ping
 
12:00-14:00 Lunch (buffet, 2nd floor, Building A, Ramada Plaza Caohejing)
 
Afternoon: Free
 
 
 
Nov. 13 Saturday
 
Participants’ departure