On December 28, the executive vice director of Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS) Ma Jiali hosted a symposium in China Reform Forum discussing 2015 Hot International Topics.

Participants expressed their views on topics of "Our Responses to the Current World Political and Economic Situation", "A Prospective Study on Counter-Terrorism and Turmoil in the Middle East", "A Srategic Assessment on China's Peripheral Security Situation", "Prospects and Challenges of One Belt One Road Strategy".

Speakers included:

Ai Ping, Former Vice-Minister of International Department of the CPC Central Committee

Ding Yuanhong, CRF Senior Adviser, Former Chinese Ambassador to Swiss, Belgium and the European Union

Guo Xiangang, Vice-president of the China Institute of International Studies

Guan Xiuli, Associate Research Fellow from National Development and Reform Commission

Ji Ping, Deputy Secretary General of China Foundation for Peace and Development

Pan Zhenqiang, CRF Senior Adviser, Former Director of Strategy Institute at China's National Defense University

Qian Wenrong, CRF Councilor, Research Fellow at Xinhua Center for World Affairs

Yang Mingjie, Vice President of China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)

Yangyi, CRF Councilor, Former Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies at China’s National Defense University

Zhou Gang, CRF Senior Adviser, Former Chinese Ambassador to India, Pakistan and Indonesia

Zhang Xuegang, Deputy Director for Southeast Asia and Oceania Studies Of China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)

Liu Dun from Central Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee also attended this meeting.