Huang Ping,Liu ZuokuiThe 4thHigh-Level Think Tanks Symposium of China and Central and Eastern European Countries was held in Beijing,China on December 19,2017,focusing on the theme of“China-CEEC Cooperation:Prospects for the Next Five Years”.About 100 experts and scholars from the 17 countries gathered in Beijing to share their insights and advice for cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries.Wang Chao,Vice Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs,PRC,Secretary-General ...

Huang Ping,Ph.D.in Sociology(LSE,London,1991),Senior Research Fellow(1997-),is Director General,Institute of European Studies,Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,Secretary General,China-CEEC Think Tank Network,President,Chinese Association of American Studies,and has been Vice Presidents for the China National Association of International Relations,Chinese Association of World Politics Studies,Chinese Association of European Studies,and China Association for Hong Kong Macao Studies,he is also the CoChair,European Institut Transcultural.

Before he took current positions,Prof.Huang was the Deputy Director General,Institute of Sociology,DirectoGeneral,Institute of American Studies,CASS,and was elected as Vice President,International Social Science Council (ISSC,2005-2008),Vice President,International Institute of Sociology (IIS,2003-2013),Vice Chairman,Management of Social Transformation(MOST,UNESCO,2001-2005).He is in the editonal board in British Journal of Sociology,Current Sociology,Comparative Sociology,Global Social Policy,Sociology of Development,and Journal of Migration,etc.

Huang has published books and papers on development,poverty,migration,modernity.China-US and China-Europe relations.he was a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University,Duke University,Oxford,etc.

Liu Zuokui,Ph.D.in History(2005),the Senior Research Fellow of CASS and the Director of the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies,Institute of European Studies,CASS,and the Acting Director of the China-CEEC Think Tanks Exchange and Cooperation Network Office.

Liu currently serves as the senior researcher of the Development Research Center of State Council of China,research fellow of China Foundation of International Affairs,research fellow of the Institute of Regional and Global Development Beijing Foreign Studies University and the senior researcher of Regional Security Center of CASS.He once was the visiting scholar of Mannheim University of Germany(2007),Aoyama Gakuin University of Japan(2009),Polish Institute of International Affairs(2015)and Latvian Institute of International Affairs(2016).

Liu's major research interest included:Central and Eastern European Studies,Balkan Studies,European Union Integration Studies,China-EU Relations,Quantitative Research such as the Mutual Perception between China and EU and Central and Eastern European Countries,the Turkish Issues and China-Turkish Relations and etc.