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China Fellowship Program
2013 - present

China Fellowship Program

Energizing a new generation of private sector business leaders in China to step up in a meaningful fashion to meet the challenges presented by the country’s vast economic and social transformation.
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/china-fellowship-program/
Launched in 2013, the China Fellowship brings together a carefully selected group of accomplished, entrepreneurial private-sector leaders from across Greater China. Over two years, Fellows take moments to step away from the constant demands of leadership to engage in a rare kind of dialogue – one rooted not in tactics or transactions, but in enduring human questions: · What is a good society? · How should power be exercised? · What kind of legacy do I intend to leave?

Over the past three decades, China has experienced an economic and social transformation on a scale and at a speed unlike anything witnessed in recorded history.

The achievements of the past thirty years in lifting hundreds of millions from poverty, building the world’s second largest economy and thrusting China onto the world stage are truly awe-inspiring. As daunting as this task has been, what lies ahead for China over the next decades is an even greater challenge — how to build a progressive, prosperous ‘good’ society in an increasingly globalized world community.

The goal of the China Fellowship Program is to energize China’s business leaders to step up to this challenge in a meaningful fashion. Each Fellow has been selected because they have achieved real success in their careers and, yet, are at a point in their lives where they’d like to have a broader impact. The program is designed to guide them through a personal journey of reflection, insight and action in an area where they’d like to make that impact. As such, they will become more effective, enlightened leaders and will move “from success to significance.”

The China Fellowship Program is completely non-political in nature. This program is made possible thanks to a generous gift from David M. Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Leadership Fund.