VII International Electronic Symposium on Chinese Politics

VII International Electronic Symposium on Chinese Politics

General Information

The International Electronic Symposium on Chinese Politics is an initiative put in place by the Observatory of Chinese Politics. It is held annually, at the same time as the yearly sessions of the PNA and the CPPCC, between the 1^st and the 21^st of March. It is structured in three parts: Politics, Economy and Society; Security and Defence, and International Relations. Each of these sections lasts for one week.

 The Symposium is organised as follows: at the start of each weekly session the communications are made public among the people registered. From that moment on, the registered participants can formulate considerations or questions to the speakers through the Moderator of the Symposium, who is responsible to circulate the information during the event. An opening session and conclusions are taken into account.

In order to present a communication, it is only necessary to send an e-mail to the moderator in that regard and deliver the final communication before the 15^th of February of 2016, following the general rules. There are no fixed topics and, depending on their content, communications will be published on a specific week of the Symposium.

The Symposium has an Academic Council and a Correction Committee. The latter is responsible for the good development of the discussions, whereas the former watches over the rigour in the communications presented.

The goal of this Symposium is to recognise the value of Chinese Studies in the Ibero American geopolitical and cultural area, facilitating contact and communication among Chinese Studies scholars.

The first edition of this Symposium took place in 2011. Since then, the number of speakers, registered participants and visitors to the website where all the information is uploaded, including the discussions on each session has grown steadily.

This year, the VII Symposium will give particular focus to the topics related to the 5th Plenary Session of the CPC Central Commitee, New normality in the Chinese economy, XIII Five-Year Plan, reform of state enterprises, financial reform and the fight against poverty, inequality, minority nationalities and autonomy, Taiwan, the Rule of Law, conflict in the China Seas, the new Silk Route, relations with the US and Europe, relations with Latin America and Africa, among others.

1. Description

To establish an open platform of debate and socio-political reflection concerning the Chinese agenda with a barometer reflected in the annual meetings that in March celebrate the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and that of the People´s National Assembly.



2. Objectives

a) To put into effect accompaniments of the principal topics that define the political Chinese agenda.
b) To encourage specialized reflections on key matters.
c) To venture future trends on the development of the Chinese policies

3. Advantages

a) To exchange ideas amidst specialists in Chinese politics without any 
necessary displacement.
b) To contribute to the establishment of a collective diagnosis in topics that is 
of common interest and of usefulness in our performance.
c) To take part in an active and continuous way in the definition of a properly 
Latin-American vision of the transition in the Chinese world.

4. Development

The programme will be organized around three thematic weekly meetings. The first one centred on politics; the second one, in economy and society; the third one in foreign affairs and security and defence. 

The conclusions will be published.

5. Methodology

The first day of every week the official presentations relating to the topic will be announced. They will be signed by prestigious specialists and they will be submitted for debate or questioning during the same period. These documents will be taken as a base for the discussion and the exchange of opinions.

Any participant of the symposium will be able to send his observations in the course of every week which can consis in: opinions relating to the official presentations; opinions relating to some other work or comment of other participants; own presentations related to the topic of the week. The above mentioned will have to be presented with a summary not exceeding 100 words and a brief curriculum vitae. The participants will have to send his messages to: director@politica-china.org, and they will also be sent to all the new recruits.

Once the symposium has been completed, the participants will be requested to share their conclusions. The official conclusions will also be reported. 

Inscriptions seen in the symposium can be formalized until February 15, 2014 by means of communication directed todirector@politica-china.org.


6. Participants

One will possess the participation of Referees Invited expressly by the organizing entity, being careful to reach the maximum plurality and representation.

7. Procedure

a) The symposium will rely on a moderator who will have the following responsibilities and attributions:

- To consult the mail on a daily basis to check for messages.
- To answer the consultations.
- To forward the opinions, comments and works to all the participants.
- To call the attention on the breach of the ethical procedure.

b) The participants´ rights are as follows:

- To receive the presentations and the messages of the rest of the participants.
- To take part by means of comments, opinions or other messages on the texts of the referees and other participants.
- To receive the certificate or supporting diploma of their participation.


c) The participants´ responsibilities are as follows:

- To assume the responsibility for their declarations.
- To use formal language and, without prejudice of the exercise of the critique, to avoid offensive terms for persons and / or institutions, trying to think in and constructive form. 
- To express views in one of the official languages accepted in the symposium (Spanish, Chinese, English, French and Portuguese).

d) The moderator will be assisted by a Committee of Correction.

8. Minutes 

The presentations that assemble the sufficient merits to be published might be included by the official texts in the minutes of the symposium. The participants will yield their rights on the texts sent to the Observatory of Chinese Politics to be published as minutes or articles in any type of format and for two years from the closing date of the symposium. The works might be included to the OPCh´s web.


9. Collaborating entities 

The collaborating entities regard as specific obligation the installation of a banner on the event in his web pages in order to facilitate its diffusion.

10. Academic Council

The SEI has an Academic Council comprising: Jorge Malena (coordinator "Studies on Contemporary China" at the University of Salvador, Buenos Aires), Julio A. Díaz Vázquez (Consulting Professor, Research Center for International Economics, University of Havana), Diana Andrea Gómez (Associate Professor of Political Science Department, National University of Colombia), Milton Reyes (Professor at the School for International Policy, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Ecuador), Romer Cornejo (research Professor, Centre for the Study of Asia and Africa at the Colegio de Mexico), Paulo Vicentini (sinologist, Brazil), Carmen Mendes(Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra), Alfredo Toro Hardy (Venezuelan diplomat), Fernando Reyes Matta (Center for Latin American Studies in China, Chile), and Xulio Rios (director OPCh). 

11. Final note

All parties interested in taking part in contributing with a presentation can send it to: director@politica-china.org

Rules for the Presentation of Communications

            1. All the works will be evaluated by two independent and anonymous experts designated by the OPCh. They will advise on approval without changes, make suggestions to the author or authors or advise against publication.

            2. Works must be original and unpublished, and their publication must not be engaged with any other media, unless this happens after the Symposium.

            3. The original communications can be sent in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese or Chinese.

            4. The works will consist of a minimum of 3,000 words and a maximum of 10,000, including graphs, charts and bibliography.

            5. The following information must appear on the first page: Communication title, author's name and surname, address, phone and fax number, e-mail address. Authors must also include their institutional affiliations, as well as any indications in relation to how this affiliation should be published. Furthermore, the author must include a brief CV, no longer than 5 lines, which will be published along with the communication.

            6. All the works must include an abstract no longer than 15 lines, with no more than 5 keywords.

            7. Notes must be added at the end of the paper.

            8. Notes and bibliographic references will have the following format:

            - BOOKS: Author's SURNAME (capitalised) and name (not capitalised): Book title (in italics), publishing company, city, year and page(s).

            - ARTICLES: Author's SURNAME (capitalised) and name (not capitalised): "Article title" (in quotation marks), name of the journal (in italics), issue, date and page(s).

            9. Initials will be followed by the full name in brackets the first time they are mentioned in the text.

            10. Submissions are accepted until the 15^th of February 2016. The authors will receive notification on whether or not their communication has been accepted within one week of reception of the original.

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