https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined Invited presentation on “ ‘Villages of the City’: Reshaping Rurality and Rural-urban Relationship in Post-productvist Pearl River Delta, China” at the 2017 International Conference on Future Urban Development, organized by the Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School in Shenzhen, China, 15 to 17 December 2017. (Dr. Shenjing He)

Invited talk on “the Rural Renaissance and Reconstruction Movement in Contemporary China: Cultural Economy and Rural Society in an Era of Planetary Urbanisation” at the HKU-Peking University Global China Workshop: Rural sustainability, migration and urban space, organized by the University of Hong Kong. (Dr. Junxi Qian)

Invited presentation on “Gentrification and the remaking of Chinese cities”, at the Urban Governance Reform and Innovation Forum, 2017 Annual Conference of the Urban Planning Society of China in Dongguan, China, 18 to 20 November 2017. (Dr. Shenjing He)

Participation in the forum on “China’s Greater Bay” of the China City Planning Association Annual Conference held in Dongguan, China, co-organized by Hong Kong Institute of Planners and Macao Urban Planning Institute, 17 to 20 November 2017. (Dr. Roger Chan)

Invited as key member to participate Cambridge Workshop - 'Emerging Geographies of Transnational Monetary Power" in Cambridge Univ. 17-18 Sept, 2017, which aims to bring researchers in International Political Economy (IPE) and Financial Geography (FG) to find new/future research direction and to bid ESRC Future Research Grant in UK.

Invited keynote presentation of research paper entitled "Megacities, the World Largest Cities Unleashed: Major Trends and Dynamics in Contemporary Global Urban Development" published in World Development at 5th International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Management and Human Behaviour – SMHB'17 in Rome, Italy, 27-28 May.

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined Public Lecture co-organized with School of Business (HKU), Institute of China and Global Development, and International Centre for China Development Studies, given by Mr. Kurbanjan Samat, Documentary Director, on “I am from Xinjiang on the Silk Road” on 27 April 2017. (Organized public lecture)

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined Professor Suisheng Zhao, Director, Center for China-US Cooperation and Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, on “A revisionist stakeholder: The China challenge to the US-led world order under the Trump administration” on 20 April 2017. (Organized seminar)

Invited presentation on “Provincialising the West, De-parochialising China: Some Reflections from Urban Public Spaces in China” at the Annual Meeting, American Association of Geographers in Boston, USA. (Dr. Junxi Qian)

Invited presentation on "Belt and Road Initiative and China's global direct investment strategies" organized by Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, in Kunming on 4 March 2017.

Invited presentation on "Beijing Olympics and China's mega-event urbanization model with preliminary comparison to India" organized by the World Bank and Indian Economic Association at the WB's Indian Head Office in New Delhi on 9 January 2017.