Events
We are organising a series of events including workshops, seminars and conferences to gather thoughts, inspire research and disseminate outputs.
Conferences
21/11/2025-23/11/2025 Conference on China Urban Development, Planning and Planning Education in the New Era
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
26/10/2025-29/10/2025 Connecting Urbanism Across Time And Space
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
26/08/2025-29/08/2025 The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Speakers: Miss Handuo Deng, Miss Jingyi Qin
17/07/2025-18/07/2025 ‘The Climate Crisis: Making Cities Resilient’ The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2025 Conference
Speakers: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Miss Handuo Deng
06/07/2025-08/07/2025 The 2025 International Conference on China Urban Development
15/11/2024-17/11/2024 Annual Conference of RSA China Division 2024
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
26/10/2024-27/10/2024 The Urban Regeneration and Social Governance Conference
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
18/10/2024-20/10/2024 The 8th Joint Forum on Land Use Policy by SSCI Journal
Keynote speech and roundtable discussion
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
27/08/2024-30/08/2024 The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Speakers: Dr. Yi Feng, Yining Liu
29/07/2024-31/07/2024 The Transcalar Politics of Urban Development Conference
Plenary and parallel session presentations
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Handuo Deng
11/06/2024-14/06/2024 RSA Annual Conference
Speakers: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Zhenfa Li
16/04/2024-20/04/2024 AAG Annual Meeting
Organiser and Speaker: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang
28/10/2023-29/10/2023 Urban China Research Network Annual Conference
Keynote speech, session presentations
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Dr. Yi Feng, Handuo Deng
15/09/2023-18/09/2023 Annual Conference of GSC Commission on Urban Geography
Keynote speech, special session
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang
15/07/2023-16/07/2023 Academic Conference of International Chinese Urban Governance and Policy
Keynote speech, parallel session
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Dr. Yi Feng, Handuo Deng
28/06/2023-02/07/2023 The 17th Annual Conference of the International Chinese Planning Society
Keynote speech, parallel session
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Dr. Yi Feng
14/06/2023-17/06/2023 RSA 2023 Annual Conference
Speakers: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Dr. Weikai Wang
10/11/2022-11/11/2022 RSA winter conference
Special session: Metropolitan governance in a post-pandemic era
Speakers: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Dr. Weikai Wang, Dr. Ying Wang, Zhenfa Li, Yi Feng, Kan Zhu
Seminar and workshop events
13/10/2025
Research exchange between CPRG and a team from Peking University
Chair: Prof. Fulong Wu
Speakers: Prof. Pengjun Zhao, Dr Mengzhu Zhang
24/09/2025
Climate Policy Uncertainty and Housing Dynamics: Evidence from China’s Major Cities
Chair: Dr Qiulin Ke
Speakers: Prof. Chyi Lin Lee
15/09/2025 – 16/09/2025
Co-producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism Symposium Series
Speaker: Miss Jingyi Qin
23/05/2025
Rethinking China’s model of urban governance
Chair: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang
Speakers: Prof. Henry Yeung, Prof. Fulong Wu
21/05/2025
Housing Production and the Structural Transformation of China’s Real Estate Development Industry
Chair: Dr Chris Foye
Speaker: Prof. Lan Deng
19/03/2025
Book Launch of ‘Governing Urban Development in China‘
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Prof. Chris Hamnett, Prof. Hyun Bang Shin
30/09/2024-03/10/2024
2024 Local China Project, Annual Workshop
Participants: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Dr. Ying Wang
05/07/2024
The Changing Landscape of Low-income Housing in post-2008 Urban China
Chair: Prof. Fulong Wu
Speaker: Prof. Shenjing He
21/06/2024
Planning with extended urbanization: Elements of a strategic spatial planning vocabulary
Chair: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang
Speaker: Prof. Nick Phelps
10/05/2024
Research exchange on China planning studies
Chair: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang
Speakers: Prof. Shangyi Zhou, Prof. Fenghua Pan, Prof. Yang Cheng
Discussants: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Le-yin Zhang
02/05/2024-03/05/2024
Towards a low-carbon city: UCL-PKU strategic partnership workshop
Speakers: Prof. Mike Raco, Prof. Le-Yin Zhang, Prof. Lauren Andres, Prof. Catalina Turcu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Canfei He, Dr. Liang Ma, Prof. Gang Liu, Prof. Guangzhong Cao
26/04/2024
Rethinking China’s Urban Governance Workshop
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Dr. Tianren Ge, Dr. Yi Li, Mr. Xiang Luo, Dr. Xiaohua Zhong, Prof. Jie Shen, Dr. Tingting Lu, Miss Yining Liu
08/12/2023
The workshop of ‘How to be a successful early career researcher’
Speakers: Dr. Yuerong Zhang, Dr. Weikai Wang, Pengpeng Li, Dr. Zheng Wang, Dr. Mengqiu Cao
10/11/2023-13/11/2023
The workshop of ‘2023 UCL ChinaUrban: Rethinking China’s Urban Governance’
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Dr. Yi Feng, Kan Zhu, Handuo Deng
17/03/2023
Speaker: Prof. Chun Yang
03/03/2023
The Party-Statecraft of China’s Regional Governance and the Emerging Greater Bay Area
Speaker: Prof. Jun Zhang
10/02/2023
Speaker: Dr. Yuqi Liu
03/02/2023
Speaker: Dr. Thierry Theurillat
27/01/2023
Urbanization and Governance After Suburbia
Speakers: Prof. Roger Keil, Prof. Nicholas Phelps, Prof. Christian Schmid, Prof. Jennifer Robinson, Dr. Robin Bloch, Prof. Fulong Wu
08/12/2022
The Making of “New citizens”: Landless Farmers and Urban Governance in China
Speaker: Prof. Beibei Tang
09/03/2022
Speaker: Dr. Giulia C. Romano
Discussant: Prof. Claire Colomb
09/02/2022
From Eco to Smart: The Local Variegation and Spatial Circulation of Sustainable Urbanism Models
Speaker: Dr. I-Chun Catherine Chang
19/01/2022
Speaker: Prof. Yvonne Rydin
08/12/2021
Governing Chinese Neighbourhoods: Models and Beyond
Speakers: Dr. Rong Cai, Dr. Ying Wang, Dr. Tingting Lu
Discussant: Prof. Shenjing He
14/10/2021
Urban Regeneration in China: What Model Now?
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu; Prof. Lin Ye; Dr. Yang Yu; Dr. Bin Li; Manqi Wang
Invited talks
25/04/2025
Governing Urban Development in China: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Invited by SMU Urban Institute
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
09/04/2025
Invited by School of Urban Design, Wuhan University
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
02/04/2025
Invited by Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
09/12/2024
Urban neighbourhood goverance under Chinese modernisation
Invited by Public Service and Data Management Bureau of Beijing Government
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
17/11/2024
Creating Chinese Urbanism: understanding urban governance from the transformation of urban spaces
Invited by Sichuan University
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
08/11/2024
Creating Chinese Urbanism: understanding urban governance from the transformation of urban spaces
Invited by Tongji University
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
06/11/2024
Governing urban development in China: Critical urban studies
Invited by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
01/11/2024
China’s urban governance at the historical conjuncture of (de-)globalisation
Invited by Shanghai Social Science Academy
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
16/04/2024
Governing China’s urban development: State entrepreneurialism
Invited by Wuhan University
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
23/10/2023
Metropolitanization through new metropolitan plans in China
At the The China-UK Joint Seminar on Modern Smart City, Urban and Rural Planning, Sustainable Development
Invited by Chongqing Jiaotong University and Beijing Forestry University
Speaker: Dr. Weikai Wang
23/10/2023
Creating equitable living environments
At the Philanthropy for Better Cities Forum
Invited by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
21/11/2022
Performing the ecological fix under state entrepreneurialism in China
Invited by Urban China Seminar
Speaker: Prof. Fangzhu Zhang
18/06/2022
The role of the state in China’s urban redevelopment
At the International Conference on Sustainable Urban Regeneration
Invited by Remin University
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
05/12/2021
Performing the Ecological Fix under State Entrepreneurialism in China
Invited by University at Albany, State University of New York
Speaker: Dr. Fangzhu Zhang
27/10/2021
The financialisation of Chinese Cities & the Real Estate Industry
Invited by Institute of Chinese Studies Delhi
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu; Prof. Tao Wang; Dr. Yue Zhang
12/03/2021
Rethinking the City and Innovation: A political economic view from China’s biotech
Invited by the University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr. Fangzhu Zhang
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