HONG Nong Executive
Director and Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies
CHEN Gang Assistant
Director and Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
Which are then the biggest opportunities related to the opening of the Polar
Silk Road? Who are the actors involved in shaping this strategy? And most of all which are the challenges that China will
have to deal with, both on the environmental level but also in its relations with Arctic states, including Russia?
hosted by Tsinghua SEM X-Elerator 清华经管学院－创业者加速器,
at the entrance of Innoway Zhongguancun
Tsinghua SEM X-elerator, founded in January 2015, is a startup acceleration platform that embodies the spirit of Tsinghua and provides in-depth
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X-elerator accelerates the development of startups. • Awarded
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in November 2015. • Authorized
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