Topics: Shanghai Forum 2016

Interconnectivity, Integration and Innovation: 

Building Community of Common Destiny in Asia

Shanghai Forum, launched in 2005, is an international forum hosted by Fudan University and Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies. Headquartered in Shanghai, the Forum is a non-governmental and non-profit organization. The highlight of Shanghai Forum is the annual symposium in each May at Fudan University. Under the background of economic globalization, the Forum takes its mission to "Concentrate on Asia, Focus on Hot Issues, Congregate Elites, Promote Interactions, Enhance Cooperation and Seek Consensus" seriously. It endeavors to build an interactive platform for multi-sided communication amongst academic, political commercial and press circles through which significant problems both in Asia and the worldwill be discussed comprehensively and profoundly,so as to seek consensus on Asia's economic, political, social and cultural progress. 

Shanghai Forum 2016, the 11^th annual conference of Shanghai Forum, will be held in Shanghai from May 28thto May 30th, 2016. As the fresh start of a new decade, Shanghai Forum 2016 has its theme determined as “Interconnectivity, Integration and Innovation: Building Community of Common Destiny in Asia”. The forum consists of four panels including Governance, Innovation, Cooperation and Development. We are seeking to solve problems through governance, implement transition based on innovation, achieve a win-win situation by cooperation, so as to realize the common development of Asia.