On the afternoon of November 15, 2019, the Foundation of Chinese Culture for Sustainable Development and the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (TUSDG) jointly held “Meet SDGs” High-End Forum No. 8 - Chinese Culture and Sustainable Development in the Auditorium Hall of the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University (SPPM).

Dr. Liu Chao-Shiuan, Former President of National Tsing Hua University and Chairman of Foundation of Chinese Culture for Sustainable Development, delivered a speech entitled “Sustainable Development Index with Chinese Culture as the Core Thinking”. Hu An’gang, Dean of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies and professor of SPPM, delivered a speech entitled “Chinese Green Development Goals and Practices - Three-Year Evaluation of National 13th Five-Year Plan”. Chu Yun-han, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science of Academia Sinica and professor of political science at National Taiwan University, delivered a speech entitled “Wang Dao and China’s International Responsibility”. Wu Hongbo, Special Representative of the Chinese Government on European Affairs, Co-Director of TUSDG and Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, delivered the welcome remark. Zhu Xufeng, Professor and Associate Dean of SPPM, Executive Director of TUSDG, chaired the forum. Lin Chu-chia, Distinguished Professor of the Department of Economics of the National Chengchi University and Former Special Deputy Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council, Yeh Shin-cheng, Professor of the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education of the National Taiwan Normal University and Minister without Portfolio of the “Executive Yuan”, Associate Professor Tong Hanpu, and Assistant Professor Guo Mingjie of the Department of Political Science of the National Taiwan University, Lu Zhi’an, Secretary of the Foundation of Chinese Culture for Sustainable Development, Professor Poon Kit and Associate Professor Zheng Zhenqing of SPPM joined the event, and hundreds of visitors attended the forum as well.

Speech by Wu Hongbo

Liu Chao-Shiuan during his speech

Hu Angang during his speech

Zhu Yunhan during his speech

Three speakers had an in-depth dialogue on the main theme of the forum, and answered the questions raised by the audience about the indicators - at both global and individual dimensions, and the promotion of Chinese culture and the reaction of western culture. In the end, Wu Hongbo thanked Liu Chao-Shiuan on behalf of TUSDG for his delegation’s visit to Tsinghua, as well as the attendees of the event.

In the Dialogue (From left to right, Zhu Xufeng, Liu Chao-Shiuan, Yun-han Chu and Hu An’gang)

The Forum