Peng Sen, former vice-chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, president of China Society of Economic Reform. [Photo/CIIE Bureau]

Former vice-Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, President of China Society of Economic Reform, Peng Sen, has confirmed participation in the 6th Hongqiao International Economic Forum (HQF). He will attend the Parallel Session on "Exploring International Digital Governance and Creating Opportunities for Digital Industry & High-level Dialogue on Digital Trade Innovation".

Peng Sen was deputy to the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) , member of the Standing Committee of the NPC and vice-chairmen of the Finance and Economic Committee of the NPC. He has been engaged in overall planning for economic restructuring, public policy research and macroeconomic management. He has participated in drafting reform documents of the central government and the work report of the State Council, designing the comprehensive reform plan for price, taxation and finance in the 1980s, organizing the overall framework design of China's market economic reform and formulating the key points of the annual reform in the 1990s. Since the 21st century, he has been directly responsible for the planning design and comprehensive experiment of national reform. Since 1999, he has been the editor-in-chief of the China Reform Yearbook, and has been invited as a professor, doctoral supervisor in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

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The Hongqiao International Economic Forum (HQF) is an important part of the China International Import Expo (CIIE). Under the theme of “Joining Hands in Development, Opening Up for the Future", the 6th HQF will feature the main forum (opening ceremony of the 6th CIIE and the HQF), the "Invest in China Year" Summit, the Press Conference and International Symposium on World Openness Report 2023 (including the release of the World Openness Index), as well as 22 parallel sessions divided into four sections: "Opening-up for Development", "Opening-up for Cooperation", "Opening-up for Innovation" and "Opening-up for Sharing". (For more information, please click the link.)