Events
We are organising a series of events including workshops, seminars and conferences to gather thoughts, inspire research and disseminate outputs.
Conferences
08/04/2026-10/04/2026 The inaugural “BeNeLux Geography” conference
Speaker: Miss Handuo Deng
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
23/05/2026
Rethinking China’s Urban Governance Workshop IV (Part Two)
Chair: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Yang Xiao, Prof. Jie Shen
Speakers: Prof. Jian Zhou, Prof. Juan Sun, Prof. Yuemin Ning, Prof. Hai Yu, Prof. Jie Chen, Mr Zhituan Deng, Mr Yong Wan, Prof. Fangzhu Zhang, Prof. Tianren Ge, Prof. Xiaohua Zhong, Prof. Yuelai Liu, Dr. Xiang Luo, Dr. Zhouyang Wang, Dr. Jiajin Huang, Prof. Yong Wan, Dr. Yi Feng, Dr. Zhenfa Li
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
17/09/2025
Rethinking China’s Urban Governance Workshop IV (Part One)
Chair: Prof. Fulong Wu
Speakers: Prof. Zhigang Li, Prof. Jie Shen, Prof. Yang Xiao, Prof. Tingting Lu, Prof. Calvin King Lam Chung, Dr. Tianke Zhu, Dr. Yi Feng, Ms. Manqi Wang
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
15/05/2026
“Rethinking China’s Urban Governance”, Zhejiang University, 15/05/2026
Invited by the School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University.
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
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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