On December 12, 2020, the 19th Annual Conference on WTO and China, hosted by CIWTO and China Society for WTO Studies, was successfully held in Yunnan Building in Beijing. The theme of this year’s conference is the change of American government, the US-China relations, and the WTO reform. Experts and scholars had in-depth communications and discussions on important issues including policy options after the US presidential election, the future of US-China trade frictions, and the prospects of the WTO reform.

Dozens of experts and scholars were invited to attend the Meeting, including Chong Quan, Chairman of the China Society for WTO Studies; Sun Yongfu, Former Director of the Department of European Affairs, Ministry of Commerce; Tian Deyou, Former Business Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in the United States; Huo Jianguo, Vice Chairman of the China Society for WTO Studies; Hong Xiaodong, Former Director of the Department of WTO Affairs, Ministry of Commerce; Li Yong, Deputy Director of the Academic Committee of the China Association of International Trade (CAIT); Yang Guohua, Professor of Law at Tsinghua University; Wang Wen, Deputy Dean and Professor of Silk Road School, Renmin University of China; Li Wei, Professor at Renmin University of China; Ji Zhiye, Former President of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR); Huang Renwei, Executive Vice Dean of Fudan Institute of Belt and Road & Global Governance (BRGG); Gong Baihua, Professor of law at Fudan University; Li Wei, Director of the Institute of American and Oceania Study, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC) of the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM); Song Hong, Vice Director of the Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Ding Yifan, Chair Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University; Chen Dingding, Professor of International Relations and Dean of the Institute for 21st-Century Silk Road Studies at Jinan University; Chen Fengying, Senior Research Fellow at China's Institute of Contemporary International Relations; Yue Yunxia, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin America Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS); Shen Minghui, Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of International Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS); Xue Rongjiu, Professor at University of International Business and Economics (UIBE); Zhuang Rui, Secretary of the Party Committee at the Academy of China Open Economy Studies, UIBE; and Zhou Nianli, Professor at CIWTO, UIBE.