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SUMMARY:China’s Looming Water Crisis（by Charlie Parton) - Speaker to b
 e confirmed
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CONTACT:Shuai Eddie WEI
DESCRIPTION:A looming water crisis is a bigger and perhaps more immediate 
 threat to China's economic and social development than debt\, demographics
  and other economic challenges. Yet it is too rarely discussed. China has 
 20% of the world's population\, but only 7% of its water\, and\, to make m
 atters drier\, 80% of the water is in the south. Current consumption patte
 rns are unsustainable. But time is running out for the implementation of t
 he required economic\, industrial\, agricultural and social shifts - and t
 hey are politically very difficult to introduce.\n\nThe speaker will prese
 nt some worrying background on water consumption and the measures needed t
 o avert a crisis\, which will have consequences not just for China\, but f
 or the rest of the world\, their severity depending on the speed and succe
 ss with which China is able to meet the challenge.\nBio:\n\nCharlie Parton
  spent 22 years of his 37 year diplomatic career working in or on China\, 
 Hong Kong and Taiwan. In his final posting he was seconded to the EU Deleg
 ation in Beijing\, where\, as First Counsellor until late 2016\, he focuss
 ed on Chinese politics and internal developments\, and advised the EU and 
 Member States on how China's politics might affect their interests. He has
  also worked in Afghanistan\, Cyprus\, Libya and Mali. In 2017 he set up h
 is own consultancy\, China Ink\, and was chosen as the UK Parliament's For
 eign Affairs Committee Special Adviser on China\; he returned to Beijing f
 or 4 months as Adviser to the British Embassy to cover the Communist Party
 's 19th Congress.
LOCATION:Erasmus Room\, Queens’ College CB3 9ET
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