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October 3, 2014

How Did China Lose Out on $600 Billion in GDP?

 A recent study shows that the lives of Northern Chinese are five years shorter than normal due to the heavy pollution of the air they breathe. Those premature deaths, it turns out, are also having...

October 1, 2014

Chinese Mayors’ Surprising Lesson in Miami: Governance

By Leigh Wedell The 12 Chinese mayors and vice mayors hosted recently by the Paulson Institute for a crash course on urban sustainability with experts in Chicago and Miami began their trip to the United...

September 26, 2014

Three Questions With: Rose Niu

Rose Niu, Chief Conservation Officer at the Paulson Institute, is helping China to develop a blueprint for coastal wetlands preservation and to establish the country's first system of national parks. You have been hosting Chinese...

September 23, 2014

What Hank Paulson and Denmark’s Prime Minister Have in Common

By Dorinda Elliott The Clinton Global Initiative organizers could hardly have chosen a better interlocutor for an onstage conversation about climate change with Paulson Institute Chairman Hank Paulson yesterday. Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt practically...

September 19, 2014

Learning from the West’s Mistakes: China Can Fight Pollution and Climate Change

By Chelsea Eakin China has an opportunity to skip mistakes that the US and other countries have made when it comes to tackling air pollution and climate change. That is one of the main themes...

September 18, 2014

Is Zhou Yongkang’s Downfall Good for China’s Environment?

By Dorinda Elliott Looking ahead to Climate Week next week, what's the latest in China, the world's biggest CO2 emitter? According to University of Chicago Political Science Professor and Paulson Institute Faculty Advisor Dali Yang,...

September 16, 2014

Three Questions With: Andrew Batson

With state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform at the center of Xi Jinping's reform agenda, China is now taking unprecedented steps to address its economic pillars. Andrew Batson, who previously wrote a Paulson Policy Memorandum detailing how...

September 8, 2014

China’s Bike Sharing Craze

You've probably heard about car-choked streets and traffic in China's cities. But bikes are back in vogue, and bike-sharing has become a viral phenomenon. According to a recent Bloomberg report, China is home to more...

Is China Serious About Climate Change?

According to former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Paulson Institute Chairman Hank Paulson, the answer is yes. China's position on climate change has flipped 180 degrees in the last five years, according to Rudd,...

September 4, 2014

Why China’s Mayors Matter

By Deborah M. Lehr and Leigh Wedell Imagine relocating four of America's top five city populations – Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia – into new cities every year. That is what Chinese urbanization will look...