Seven years after President Xi's announcement of the Belt & Road Initiative, the world economy has been facing tough challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Scholars and experts from China, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Myanmar and the US shared their points of view at the 6th IFF Academic Conference on April 30, 2020. Zafar Uddin Mahmood, secretary general of the SRIA and former Special Envoy for China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) hosted the conference and delivered a welcome speech.
This conference had two sessions. The first part was to release the IFF 2020 China Report. The second part was a conference on the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the world economy, especially the impact on European, Asian, African and Latin American economies.
Economists from China and abroad participated in the 4th IFF Academic Conference on April 8, 2020, to discuss the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the world economy and the turmoil it caused around the world. Senior economists from JPMorgan, BBVA, the World Bank and Wuhan University participated in the meeting and shared their views on the impact of the pandemic on China and the world economy.
Vice Chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges and former Vice Minister of Commerce Wei Jianguo delivered a keynote speech entitled “Chinese economy will be a stable power for the world recovery after the pandemic” at the 3rd IFF Academic Conference on March 18, 2020. Dozens of senior experts, researchers, economists and investors participated in the conference and held discussions with minister Wei, including strategies and policies to deal with the economic impact of the pandemic. The Innovative Green Culture Seminar was the co-organizer of the conference.
Together with the Innovative Green Culture Seminar the IFF organized a conference to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a possible world economic crisis on March 8, 2020. Many experts agreed that the pandemic would have tremendous health, social and economic consequences. The challenges it will cause would affect all people, they said.
