IIAS SEMINAR

ADMINISTRATIVE FEFORM IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Since 1978

April 14-15, 1994

International Seminar on China's Administrative Reform Since 1978
Organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies
Leiden, the Netherlands
Universiteitsraadzaal, Academiegebouw, Rapenburg 73, Leiden


Preliminary Programme

Thursday 14 April
9.30-10.00   Registration; coffee/tea get-together
10.00-10.15  Welcoming speech: Prof. Stokhof, IIAS Director
10.15-10.30  Opening remarks: Prof. Saich (Sinological Institute Leiden)
10.30-10.45  Introductory remarks: Dr Dong (IIAS)
10.45-12.00  Keynote speech: Mr. Wang Jingsong (Associate Research Fellow,   
Institute of Administrative Science, Ministry of Personnel, PRC)
12.00-13.00  Political background of the reform.
             Paper: Drs Geng Yan (London School of Economics & Political   
Science)
13.00-14.00  Lunch
14.00-14.45  Economic Policy-Making Process
             Paper: Mr Wang Yiming (State Planning Commission, PRC)
14.45-15.45  Settling Administrative Dispute: Law or Policy?
             Paper: Dr Robert Jagtenberg & Dr Annie de Roo (Erasmus University
             Rotterdam)
15.45-16.15  Coffee/tea break
16.15-17.00  Recent Development in Administrative Law-Making
             Paper: Drs Geor Hintzen (Centre for Non-Western Studies, Leiden)

             End of Day One

Friday 15 April
9.00-9.45    Land Resource Management
             Paper: Dr Qu Futian (Nanjing Agricultural University)
9.45-10.15   Coffee/tea break
10.15-11.00  The Establishment of the Civil Service System
             Paper: Dr Dong Lisheng (IIAS)
11.00-11.45  The Current Residence Registration System
             Paper: Drs Hein Mallee (CNWS)
11.45-12.30  The Rural Labour Management
             Paper: Dr Wang Kai (Nanjing Agricultural University)
12.30-12.45  Concluding remarks: Dr Dong
12.45-14.30  Lunch
Conclusion of the seminar

If more papers are accepted, the second afternoon sessions will be arranged.
The session chairmen and paper discussants have yet to be confirmed.