SYSBS and Time Weekly Host the 3rd Nobel Laureate China Tour--- Muhammad Yunus’ Guangzhou Trip
Sponsors: The Time Weekly, SYSBS
Co-Sponsors：CCTV Stock & CCTV Finance (CCTV2), Guangdong Television, Southern Television Economy Channel (TVS1), CBN, The Economic Observer, China Business Journal, National Business Daily, Ifeng Finance, Sina Finance, NetEase Finance, Hexun.com, Eastmoney.com, etc.
Forum Topic：International Forum on Microcredit and Social Enterprise
Date：August 14, 2012
Place：Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Plan to Invite：
Wu Jinglian: One of the preeminent economists in China. Research Fellow for the Development Research Centre of the State Council of China; Member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC) and Deputy Director of the Economy Committee; Deputy Director of Advisory Committee for State Informatization; Deputy Director of the Academic Committee of Development Research Center of the State Council.
Latifee: Managing Director of Grameen Trust, Bangladesh.
Shao Zhibao: Head of Guangdong Branch, Postal Savings Bank of China.
Chen Zhiwu: Famous ethnic Chinese economist, tenured professor of Yale University.
Ding Xueliang: Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Senior Research Fellow of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Research Fellow of Australian National University Asia-Pacific Institute.
Qin Xiao: Former director of China Merchants Group and China Merchants Bank; Former deputy director and general manager of China International Trust Investment Company(CITIC); Former director of CITIC Industrial Bank; The 10th CPPCC Member.
Chen Jianmin: Professor of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Zhang Huaqiao: CEO of Wan-Sui Microcredit Co., Ltd.
Introduction to the Nobel Laureate
On Oct. 13, 2006, Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate --- Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh.
“Lasting Peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty.”
--- Announcement of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
Muhammad Yunus (Born June 28, 1940) is a Bangladesh economist, the founder of Grameen Bank. He is referred to as “Banker to the poor”.
Muhammad Yunus developed microcredit, which specifically serves entrepreneurs who are too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. He is the founder of Bangladesh Grameen Bank. In 2006, Yunus and Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below”. Yunus himself has received over 60 awards, including President's Award, Bangladesh (1978), Bangladesh Bank Award, Bangladesh (1985), World Food Prize (1994), Sydney Peace Prize (1998), and The Economist newspaper’s Prize for social and economic innovation (2004).
