The Session of China Seminar with Yu Pun-hoi

On Friday, 4 December 2020, the Department of International Relations and the School of Oriental Studies of National Research University Higher School of Economics were honored to host a renowned Hong Kong entrepreneur Yu Pun-hoi. The topic of the discussion was “Sino-American Relations in an Era of "Unprecedented Change" and the Prospects for Continued De-Coupling After the New Master Appears in the White House”.

Yu Pun-hoi is a Hong Kong entrepreneur involved with movies and cinema, news media, real estate, IT and various other industries. As the Chairman of Nan Hai Corporation, he is currently employing over 25,000 staffs across China, US and Europe. He is most commonly known in Mainland China as the owner of the second largest cinema chain, whereas in Hong Kong and Taiwan he is most often associated as a media tycoon. 

As a keen observer of international relations and a direct witness of China's social-political-economic reforms during the past decades, Dr. Yu had also been closely involved in related academic studies, facilitating numerous high-level academic conferences, especially between China and US, as well as founding several research institutions such as the Institute of New Structural Economics (INSE) at his alma mater, Peking University. The Duowei news.com (dwnews.com) media group controlled by Yu Pun-hoi is the largest overseas Chinese-language information resource covering all aspects of China's domestic and foreign policy.