On May 29, 2014, the international seminar of ‘China after Bali: Role of China in Completing the Doha Round and Reinvigorating the WTO’ was held successfully in Beijing Friendship hotel. This seminar was cosponsored by The International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development(ICTSD) ,China Society for World Trade Organization Studies and China institute for WTO Studies of UIBE. Merlin, the president of ICTSD, attended the opening ceremony and made a speech.

The theme of the seminar was the future of Doha Round and WTO after the success of WTO Bali package agreement, especially how China would interpret and respond to current situation. All the participators spoke freely, exchanged ideas and discussed warmly with each other. Nearly 30 honored guests attended the seminar and made keynote speeches. Among them are Yi Xiaozhun , deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Sun Zhenyu , representative of The WTO Secretariat and president of Society for World Trade Organization Studies, officials from the Ministry of Commerce, Treasury , Center to promote agricultural trade Chinese Department of Agriculture , and ambassadors or their representatives from US, European, British, Sweden, Peru, etc.

Associate professor Fanying form School of International Studies in UIBE and Tu Xinquan, Deputy dean of UIBE China Institute for WTO Studies attended the seminar and respectively delivered a speech about their opinions on trade in service and plurilateral agreement negotiation.（By Lv Yunlong，Liu bo and Yue Lu)