Conferences
21/11/2025-23/11/2025 Conference on China Urban Development, Planning and Planning Education in the New Era Keynote speech Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu
26/10/2025-29/10/2025 Connecting Urbanism Across Time And Space Session presentation Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu
26/08/2025-29/08/2025 The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference Session presentations Speakers: Miss Handuo Deng, Miss Jingyi Qin
06/07/2025-08/07/2025 The 2025 International Conference on China Urban Development International conference organised by CPRG
15/11/2024-17/11/2024 Annual Conference of RSA China Division 2024 Keynote speech Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
14/11/2024-15/11/2024 Beijing Forum 2024 Session speech Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
07/11/2024-08/11/2024 2024 RSA Winter Conference Session presentation Speaker: Miss Handuo Deng
26/10/2024-27/10/2024 The Urban Regeneration and Social Governance Conference Roundtable discussion Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
18/10/2024-20/10/2024 The 8th Joint Forum on Land Use Policy by SSCI Journal Keynote speech and roundtable discussion Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
27/08/2024-30/08/2024 The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference Session presentations Speakers: Dr. Yi Feng, Yining Liu
29/07/2024-31/07/2024 The Transcalar Politics of Urban Development Conference Plenary and parallel session presentations Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Handuo Deng
11/06/2024-14/06/2024 RSA Annual Conference Session presentations Speakers: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Zhenfa Li
16/04/2024-20/04/2024 AAG Annual Meeting Sepcial sessions Organiser and Speaker: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang
02/12/2023-04/12/2023 RSA China Annual Meeting Keynote speech Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
03/11/2023-04/11/2023 Beijing Forum Keynote speech Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang
28/10/2023-29/10/2023 Urban China Research Network Annual Conference Keynote speech, session presentations Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Dr. Yi Feng, Handuo Deng
15/09/2023-18/09/2023 Annual Conference of GSC Commission on Urban Geography Keynote speech, special session Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang
15/07/2023-16/07/2023 Academic Conference of International Chinese Urban Governance and Policy Keynote speech, parallel session Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Dr. Yi Feng, Handuo Deng
28/06/2023-02/07/2023 The 17th Annual Conference of the International Chinese Planning Society Keynote speech, parallel session Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Dr. Yi Feng
14/06/2023-17/06/2023 RSA 2023 Annual Conference Parallel session Speakers: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Dr. Weikai Wang
10/11/2022-11/11/2022 RSA winter conference Special session: Metropolitan governance in a post-pandemic era Speakers: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Dr. Weikai Wang, Dr. Ying Wang, Zhenfa Li, Yi Feng, Kan Zhu
Seminars and workshops
15/12/2025-17/12/2025 Urban-China Symposium: Changing Statecraft Chair: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. George C.S. Lin, Prof. Jane Duckett, Dr Weikai Wang, Dr. Ying Wang, Dr Yi Feng, Dr Zhenfa Li, Handuo Deng, Manqi Wang, Yining Liu, Jingyi Qin, Sumu Lin, Dr Yi Sun, Dr Kean Fan Lim, Yuhong Lei, Dr Carwyn Morris, Chuchu Fu, Yidan Karel Li, Yimeng Yang, Prof. Yi Li, Dr Tu Lan, and Dr Lin Zhang.
13/10/2025 Research exchange between CPRG and a team from Peking University Chair: Prof. Fulong Wu Speakers: Prof. Pengjun Zhao, Dr Mengzhu Zhang
24/09/2025 Climate Policy Uncertainty and Housing Dynamics: Evidence from China’s Major Cities Chair: Dr Qiulin Ke Speakers: Prof. Chyi Lin Lee
23/05/2025 Rethinking China’s model of urban governance Chair: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang Speakers: Prof. Henry Yeung, Prof. Fulong Wu
21/05/2025 Housing Production and the Structural Transformation of China’s Real Estate Development Industry Chair: Dr Chris FoyeSpeaker: Prof. Lan Deng
19/03/2025 Book Launch of‘Governing Urban Development in China‘ Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Prof. Chris Hamnett, Prof. Hyun Bang Shin
05/03/2025 Rethinking Collaborative Planning in China in the Digital Era Speaker: Dr. Yanliu Lin
26/11/2024 Rethinking China’s Urban Governance Workshop III Organiser: Prof. Fulong Wu
09/11/2024 Rethinking China’s Urban Governance Workshop II Organiser: Prof. Fulong Wu
30/09/2024-03/10/2024 2024 Local China Project, Annual Workshop Participants: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Dr. Ying Wang
25/09/2024-26/09/2024 NUPE 2024 Workshop Participants: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang
21/07/2024-26/07/2024 2024 Summer Institute of Economic Geography Participant: Zhenfa Li
05/07/2024 The Changing Landscape of Low-income Housing in post-2008 Urban China Chair: Prof. Fulong Wu Speaker: Prof. Shenjing He
21/06/2024 Planning with extended urbanization: Elements of a strategic spatial planning vocabulary Chair: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang Speaker: Prof. Nick Phelps
10/05/2024 Research exchange on China planning studies Chair: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang Speakers: Prof. Shangyi Zhou, Prof. Fenghua Pan, Prof. Yang Cheng Discussants: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Le-yin Zhang
02/05/2024-03/05/2024 Towards a low-carbon city: UCL-PKU strategic partnership workshop Speakers: Prof. Mike Raco, Prof. Le-Yin Zhang, Prof. Lauren Andres, Prof. Catalina Turcu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Canfei He, Dr. Liang Ma, Prof. Gang Liu, Prof. Guangzhong Cao
26/04/2024 Rethinking China’s Urban Governance Workshop Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Dr. Tianren Ge, Dr. Yi Li, Mr. Xiang Luo, Dr. Xiaohua Zhong, Prof. Jie Shen, Dr. Tingting Lu, Miss Yining Liu
08/12/2023 The workshop of ‘How to be a successful early career researcher’ Speakers: Dr. Yuerong Zhang, Dr. Weikai Wang, Pengpeng Li, Dr. Zheng Wang, Dr. Mengqiu Cao
10/11/2023-13/11/2023 The workshop of ‘2023 UCL ChinaUrban: Rethinking China’s Urban Governance’ Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Dr. Yi Feng, Kan Zhu, Handuo Deng
17/03/2023 China’s Greater Bay Area under the digital transformation: Reflections from two recent empirical research Speaker: Prof. Chun Yang
03/03/2023 The Party-Statecraft of China’s Regional Governance and the Emerging Greater Bay Area Speaker: Prof. Jun Zhang
10/02/2023 Can living in an age-friendly neighbourhood protect older adults’ mental health and wellbeing against functional decline in China? Speaker: Dr. Yuqi Liu
03/02/2023 China’s extended urbanization driven by the ‘consumption city’ in the context of financialized ecological civilization Speaker: Dr. Thierry Theurillat
27/01/2023 Urbanization and Governance After Suburbia Speakers: Prof. Roger Keil, Prof. Nicholas Phelps, Prof. Christian Schmid, Prof. Jennifer Robinson, Dr. Robin Bloch, Prof. Fulong Wu
08/12/2022 The Making of “New citizens”: Landless Farmers and Urban Governance in China Speaker: Prof. Beibei Tang
02/12/2022 People-Centered Micro-Redevelopment in Urban China Speaker: Prof. Zhigang Li
23/11/2022 Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China Speaker: Dr. Jesse Rodenbiker
02/11/2022 Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism Speaker: Dr. Yi Li
09/03/2022 Learning from abroad and changing urban renewal policies in China-Some lessons from the case of Yangzhou Speaker: Dr. Giulia C. RomanoDiscussant: Prof. Claire Colomb
09/02/2022 From Eco to Smart: The Local Variegation and Spatial Circulation of Sustainable Urbanism Models Speaker: Dr. I-Chun Catherine Chang
19/01/2022 Mobilities of Planning Theory and Research, A discussion of how we research globally but theorise more narrowly Speaker: Prof. Yvonne Rydin
08/12/2021 Governing Chinese Neighbourhoods: Models and Beyond Speakers: Dr. Rong Cai, Dr. Ying Wang, Dr. Tingting Lu Discussant: Prof. Shenjing He
14/10/2021 Urban Regeneration in China: What Model Now? Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu; Prof. Lin Ye; Dr. Yang Yu; Dr. Bin Li; Manqi Wang
Talks
25/04/2025 Governing Urban Development in China: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Invited by SMU Urban Institute Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
09/04/2025 From Entrepreneurial to Managerial Statecraft: New Trends of Urban Governance Transformation in Post-pandemic China Invited by School of Urban Design, Wuhan University Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
02/04/2025 From Entrepreneurial to Managerial Statecraft: New Trends of Urban Governance Transformation in Post-pandemic China Invited by Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, The University of Hong Kong Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
09/12/2024 Urban neighbourhood goverance under Chinese modernisation Invited by Public Service and Data Management Bureau of Beijing Government Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
17/11/2024 Creating Chinese Urbanism: understanding urban governance from the transformation of urban spaces Invited by Sichuan University Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
08/11/2024 Creating Chinese Urbanism: understanding urban governance from the transformation of urban spaces Invited by Tongji UniversitySpeaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
06/11/2024 Governing urban development in China: Critical urban studies Invited by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
01/11/2024 China’s urban governance at the historical conjuncture of (de-)globalisation Invited by Shanghai Social Science Academy Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
16/04/2024 Governing China’s urban development: State entrepreneurialism Invited by Wuhan University Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
23/10/2023 Metropolitanization through new metropolitan plans in China At the The China-UK Joint Seminar on Modern Smart City, Urban and Rural Planning, Sustainable DevelopmentInvited by Chongqing Jiaotong University and Beijing Forestry University Speaker: Dr. Weikai Wang
11/09/2023 Creating equitable living environments At the Philanthropy for Better Cities ForumInvited by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
21/11/2022 Performing the ecological fix under state entrepreneurialism in China Invited by Urban China Seminar Speaker: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang
18/06/2022 The role of the state in China’s urban redevelopment At the International Conference on Sustainable Urban RegenerationInvited by Remin UniversitySpeaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
05/12/2021 Performing the Ecological Fix under State Entrepreneurialism in China Invited by University at Albany, State University of New York Speaker: Dr. Fangzhu Zhang
27/10/2021 The financialisation of Chinese Cities & the Real Estate Industry Invited by Institute of Chinese Studies Delhi Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu; Prof. Tao Wang; Dr. Yue Zhang
12/03/2021 Rethinking the City and Innovation: A political economic view from China’s biotech Invited by the University of Hong Kong Speaker: Dr. Fangzhu Zhang
