• Understand China's current economic structure
• Comprehend economic dynamics and drivers of growth
• Understand China and its place in the world economy
• Evaluate opportunities for Western Companies
• Critically analyze economic news and analysts' commentaries
• Develop an interest in China for further studies

This course’s main objective is to provide students with tools to successfully conduct business in China.  In the West, there are many mis perceptions about China that often lead to wrong business decisions and, eventually the failure of the venture. In order to get a full understand, we will compare China to other modern economies but we will also spend time of compare today's China to yesterday's China, to understand the development dynamics: just taking a snapshot of the current situation often fails to identify the direction in which the country it is moving. To make things even more complex, China itself is far from being a homogeneous country with many regional peculiarities that must be taken into account when deciding not only “if to do business in China”, but also “where in China to do business”.

In this course, we will address all main themes of the current economic situation in China. It will be a journey across this wonderful country that will take us from to the remote countryside areas to the modern skyscrapers of Shanghai to understand what it is that has made 1.3 billion people growth at 10% per year for almost 40 years. We will understand why every year 20 million people leave the rural areas, how this flow of people fuels the manufacturing industry which, in turns, support the real estate sector and how is all this development financed by the banking system. 
We will have sessions focusing on individual industries, from three different angles: production, consumption and technology. The discussion of industries will also be a pretext to go deeper into the analysis of the economic structure of the country.

In almost every class, we will use international comparisons, so that the student acquires an understanding of the relative position of China in the world economy.

We will conclude by discussing the new growth sectors that offer best investment opportunities. 

At the end of the course, students should have developed a deep understanding of China and, hopefully, this will have enhanced their desire to know more.

Class 1: Review of China Reforms and Development:1978 to today

Class 2: Structure of Chinese Economy and New Normal

Class 3: China's Rural Economy and Income Disparity

Class 4: Migration, Urbanization and Real Estate

Class 5: Central Bank, Monetary Policy Banking and Financial System
Class 6: Government Fiscal Policy, Debt and Crisis

feedback activity: 

Class 7: Industry Focus: Manufacture, Energy, Fashion, IT, Food

Class 8: Saving, Consumption, Demographics and Middle Class

Class 9: International Trade, FDI and RMB Internationalization

Class 10: One Belt One Road, Silk Road, AIIB and Int' Relations

Class 11:  Reviewing and putting it all together. 

Preliminary Assignment: To help students get maximum value from ISUP courses, instructors provide a reading or a small number of readings or video clips to be read or viewed before the start of classes with a related task scheduled for class 1 in order to 'jump-start' the learning process.

Feedback Activity: A feedback activity defined by the course instructor will take place approx. half-way through the course.

Course timetable is available on http://www.cbs.dk/uddannelse/summer-university-programme/courses

Nice-to-have:

Arthur Kroeber: China’s Economy – What everyone needs to know

Oxford University Press, 2016