December 20, 2023. Shanghai – With the world more eager than ever to gain insights into China following the end of the pandemic, CEIBS professors had much to discuss with international media during 2023.

Changing social and work patterns, the continued shift eastwards in demand for business education, and emerging trends in the Chinese consumer market were just some of the burning issues of the day that CEIBS academics tried to help the world make sense of.

As always, China’s economy was a staple topic for international media. Professor Zhu Tian played a leading role for CEIBS to this end, discussing China’s economic policy direction for 2024, the country’s domestic focus, the role of private sector investments, and the effect of free visas on the economy – all in the South China Morning Post. At the start of the year, he also found time to offer his take on China’s economic outlook for 2023 to Canada’s Globe and Mail, and offer his thoughts on a similar topic to the Financial Times. Professor Zhu completed a whirlwind year of media work by being quoted by the New York Times on China’s changing finance sector.

Fellow economist Professor Xu Bin was quoted in a South China Morning Post piece about consumer confidence in China’s economy, spoke with Spain’s ABC about economic relations between that media’s host country and China, and compared Japan and China’s economies in a report in the same outlet. He also told German business daily Handelsblatt that a lack of demand from abroad could not be replaced by domestic consumption in China.

Professor Xu also penned an op-ed on China’s economic outlook for Chile’s Diario Financiero, whilst CEIBS President (European) Dominique Turpin offered his views to the same publication on brand-building in a globalized economy.

A busy 2023 for Professor Turpin also saw him feature in a full-length interview with Time Magazine, TV interviews on France 24 and Bloomberg TV, and an interview in the Brussels Times.

In the world of macro-economics, Professor Sheng Songcheng featured in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg, as well as another piece from the same media on China’s GDP growth targets. Singapore’s Straits Times discussed Shanghai’s bid to make a full recovery from the pandemic with Professor Daniel Chng, whilst the same newspaper quoted Professor Albert Hu on China’s third quarter GDP figures.

Moving beyond the economy, Professor Eric Bouteiller’s work on rare diseases in China was featured in the South China Morning Post, whilst Professor Shameen Prashantham spoke on the breakup of Alibaba with Le Monde.

Professor Frank Bournois visited Summer Davos in Tianjin this year, which saw the Vice-President and Dean of CEIBS feature in several related media appearances, including a TV interview on France 24. He spoke of the entrepreneurial spirt at the event with the Financial Times, and emphasized that improving East-West relations was a must for good business, in a story published by German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

Professor Gianfranco Siciliano was quoted by the Wall Street Journal on real estate giant Evergrande’s prospects for survival, and on a related note, Bala Ramasamy spoke with the South China Morning Post about the Chinese government's efforts to maintain economic stability in the wake of problems in the same sector. Professor Ramasamy was quoted by the same media on the state of China’s export market, and also by the Financial Times on the return of Corporate America to China.

Rounding out a very impactful and influential year for the school in the international media arena, Euronews carried a report which detailed a robust exchange between the Chinese Ambassador to the EU and his European counterpart at CEIBS European Forum in Brussels.