On November 7-9, 2014,”Beijing Forum 2014” International Academic Conference was held in Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. The major topic of this Conference was “The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All—China and the World: Tradition, Reality and Future”. Professor Peng Xianggang from School of Public Administration, UIBE was Invited to attend the Conference and made an exchange speech on sub-forum entitled “Social-Economic Development and State Governance in Comparative Perspective”. The title of his speech was “National Governance Capacity and Public Leadership”.
Professor Peng Xianggang pointed out that public leadership is a concrete embodiment and effective implementation of national governance capacity. Thus, to improve public leadership, efforts should be made from the following ten aspects: change leadership ideas; optimize leadership system; locate leadership role; plan leadership thinking; follow leadership rules; regularize leadership power; develop leadership; reform leadership appointment; strengthen leadership execution; shape leadership personality.
“Beijing Forum”is an international academic conference approved by Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China, guided and supported by Beijing Municipal Government and co-hosted by Peking University, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education and The Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS). “Beijing Forum” was founded in 2004 and is held annually. This year is the 11th year since “Beijing Forum” was held the first time. To date, totally there has been over 4000 celebrities and politicians and distinguished scholars from more than 70 countries and regions around the world attending this academic conference.
“Beijing Forum”was generally themed as “The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All”, based on abundant cultural deposits in Beijing and committed to promoting the research on global humanities and social sciences issues, driving global academic development and social progress and making contributions to the development of all human beings. It was believed in this Forum that convergence of different civilizations in a peaceful environment is always the driving source and fundamental guarantee of social progress of human beings.
“Beijing Forum”has the following three characteristics: firstly, being international, namely being based on Peking University, facing Asia, open to the world, and integrating distinguished scholars around the world; secondly, being academic, namely emphasizing to elaborately discuss relevant issues from the perspectives of civilizations and culture and expounding the role that civilizations and culture play in promoting global development and social progress; thirdly, being influential, namely focusing on its social benefits, paying attention to its effects on real world and aiming at drawing public attention and strike a chord in world academic community.
