Valdai Club

April 4, Tuesday

DoubleTree by Hilton Moscow

09.30-10.00    Opening of the conference

• Andrey BYSTRITSKIY, Chairman of the Board, Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

• FENG Shaolei, Director, Center for Russian Studies, East China Normal University

• Dmitry MEZENTSEV, Member of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (2013-2015); Chairman of the Russia-China Friendship Association

• Video message: FU Ying, Chairperson, Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People`s Congress of the People`s Republic of China
  

10.00-11.30    Session I. The transformation of the political and economic world around us: opportunities and threats for China and Russia

Moderator:

• Fyodor LUKYANOV, Research Director, Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club
  

Speakers:

• Dmitry MEZENTSEV, Member of the Council of the Federation Committee on Economic Policy; Secretary-General, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (2013-2015)
  

• FENG Shaolei, Director, Center for Russian Studies, East China Normal University

• Sergey KARAGANOV, Dean of the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy

• Sergey LUZYANIN, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

• SHENG Shiliang, Chief Research Fellow, World Affairs Research Center, Xinhua News Agency

12.00-13.30    Session II. The potential for relations in the China-Russia-US triangle

Moderator:

• PAN Dawei, Director, Center for Russia Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
  

Speakers:

• Andrey BEZRUKOV, Associate Professor, MGIMO University

• FENG Yujun, Professor, Center for Russia and Central Asia Studies, Fudan University

• Andrey KORTUNOV, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council

• Alexander LUKIN, Head, Department of International Relations, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Director, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)

• ZHANG Xin, Research Fellow, Center for Russian Studies, East China Normal University

15.00-16.30    Session III. Cybersecurity and the cybersphere

Moderator:

• Timofey BORDACHEV, Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club; Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics
  

Speakers:

• BEI Wenli, Deputy Director, Center for Russian Studies, East China Normal University

• Oleg DEMIDOV, Global Internet Governance and Cyber Security Consultant, PIR Center

• SHEN Yi, Deputy Director, Cyberspace Governance Studying Center, Fudan University

• Anatoly STRELTSOV, Deputy Director of the Information Security Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University

17.00-18.30    Session IV. The situational dynamics in the “shared neighborhood” countries around Russia and China

Moderator:

• LI Xin, Director, Center for Russia and Central Asia Studies, Shanghai Institute of International Studies

Speakers:

• Andrey KAZANTSEV, Director of the Analytical Center of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

• PAN Dawei, Director, Center for Russia Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

• SUN Chandung, Deputy Director, Institute for State Development of European and Asian Studies, Development Research Center of the State Council of China

• Georgy TOLORAYA, Executive Director of the Russian National Committee       on BRICS Research; Director of the Center for Asian Strategy at the Institute  of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

• YANG Cheng, Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai International Studies University
  

April 5, Wednesday

Valdai Discussion Club Conference Hall

10.00-10.15    Keynote speech: Stanislav VOSKRESENSKY, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

10.15-11.30    Session V. Energy market dynamics: conclusions for Russia and China

Moderator:

• GU Hongliang, Professor, Director of the Department for Information and publicity, East China Normal University
  

Speakers:

• Alexey GRIVACH, Deputy Director General, National Energy Security Fund

• Vyacheslav KULAGIN, Head of Oil and Gas sector development, Department   for Russia and the World, Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy       of Sciences

• LIU Xu, Executive Director, Center for International Energy and Environment Strategy Studies, Renmin University of China
  

• SHI Ze, Director, Center for Eurasian Security and Development of China Institute of International Studies

• WANG Shengzi, Chief Representative of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in the Russian Federation
  

12.00-13.30    Session VI. Economic Cooperation as Essential Constituent of Comprehensive Sino-Russian Partnership

Moderator:

• Marina LARIONOVA, Head of the Center for International Institutions Research, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
  

Speakers:

• Igor MAKAROV, Research fellow at the National Research University–Higher School of Economics
  

• Alexey BEZBORODOV, Director General, InfraNews agency

• LI Xin, Director, Center for Russia and Central Asia Studies, Shanghai Institute  of International Studies

• ZHANG Jianping, Director, Center for Regional Economic Cooperation, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry     of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China