On the morning of December 5, 2015, Shanghai Academy held lecture three of its High-end Think Tank Lecture series and invited Mei Xinyu, a Senior Research Fellow of Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, MOFCOM, P. R. China and a famous Chinese economist, to give a lecture, themed “TPP’s Influences on China and the Free Trade Zone’s Construction”, in the Auditorium of Shanghai Academy.

In view of the potential influences and impacts brought by the TPP, Professor Mei mainly analyzed several issues on the background of the TPP’s challenges to China, the main aspects of China’s economy possibly impacted by the TPP, the constraints and two sides of the TPP’s influences on China’s economy, political impacts brought by the TPP on China, and the matters of principle and judgments for China to cope with the TPP, and put forward concrete suggestions to China’s current construction of a free trade zone. Mei’s lecture explained in simple terms, with important value and academic significance forChina, how to cope with the TPP’s influences, to promote the construction of a free trade zone, to exploreChinaand Shanghai’s paths of opening up, and trade and economic reform under the new international trade environment.

TPP is short for Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Currently, the TPP has 12 member states including theUS,JapanandAustralia, and the TPP agreement came into effect on October 5, 2015.Chinacurrently hasn’t joined the TPP. In the short term, the TPP may have impacts onChina’s foreign trade to a certain extent.

Academy Executive Vice President Wen Xueguo presided over the lecture. More than 60 people from related units in Guangdong Province, Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province and Shanghai attended the lecture. Ji Weimin, Director of Secretariat, Shanghai Academy, and Yang Huijun, Director of Research Division, Shanghai Academy, were present at the lecture.