November 6^th 2008, Center for Northeast Asian Integration Studies-Peking University (CNAIS) held a seminar on China’s Economic Development and Environment. Researchers of CNAIS had an animated discussion with officials from National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Environmental Protection, members of Japan Association of Corporate Executives, as well as entrepreneurs and senior managers from Nippon Steel Corporation, Lolo Group and other Chinese and Japanese corporations over the topics like China’s economic development, China’s environmental protection, cooperation between China and Japan and so forth. Chair of Board of Trustees of CNAIS, Professor Wang Jisi and Director of the Academic Committee of CNAIS, Mr.Ryoji Furukawa co-presided at the seminar.

      Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization formed in 1946 by 83 far-sighted business leaders united by a common desire to contribute to the postwar reconstruction of the Japanese Economy. Keizai Doyukai membership today comprises approximately 1,400 top executives of some 900 large corporations, all sharing the common belief that corporate managers should be key players in a broad range of political, economic, and social issues.