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Voices: Lessons for China’s Rust Belt

As research for an upcoming paper China’s Next Opportunity: Sustainable Economic Transition, the Paulson Institute has been talking to experts from America’s rust belt cities. We’ve been asking about what contributed (or didn’t) to the...

“China Focus: Sino-U.S. economic partnership strengthened with landmark projects”

Fighting China’s Environmental War One Building at a Time

By Deborah Lehr As China's President Xi Jinping prepares for his visit to the United States, pressure is mounting on both sides to identify potential areas of cooperation amid ongoing contention. Yet, intractable issues dominate the...

SOE Reform: The Most Important Part Remains Unclear

By Houze Song  China’s latest plan for state-owned enterprise reform, released in Beijing earlier this week, contains many interesting ideas on how to improve the performance of SOEs. Among other things, the plan calls for...

Kate Gordon: Why Renewable Energy Still Needs Subsidies

5 Things to Know: Why China’s Urbanization Strategy is Outdated

Until now, China has taken a top-down approach to urbanization, strictly regulating investment dollars, land usage, migration patterns, and regional prioritization. However, this thinking is based on a flawed understanding of the facts, argues Shanghai...

An Unexpected Message for China’s Mayors: Think Small

By Benjamin Herst China’s urbanization currently represents “a once in the history of mankind movement,” argues top urban planner Peter Calthorpe to a group of 22 Chinese mayors and urban planning officials in San Francisco....

Fellow Damien Ma Explains “China’s 20 Percent Problem”

For Chinese officials, seeing is not only believing – it’s transformational

By Leigh Wedell, Chief Sustainability Officer, Paulson Institute, & Michael Gurton, International Business Development Officer, Portland Development Commission Party Secretary Li Yifei of Yiwu county in Zhejiang Province has big plans for his county of...

Kate’s Cliffnotes—Here’s to California’s Clean Energy Jobs Act

By Kate Gordon I’m newly back from vacation and was all primed to write about climate shenanigans in Washington State; California’s efforts to get to 50 percent renewables, efficiency, and cuts in petroleum use by...