{"328351":{"#nid":"328351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sam Nunn School Chair Joe Bankoff Attends Development Conference in Shenzhen, China","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoe Bankoff, Chair of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was invited by the Shenzhen Foreign Office to travel to China as their guest to present a paper and participate in an Official Symposium on the further Internationalization and Economic Development of Shenzhen.\u0026nbsp; The Symposium was held on September 16-17 in the official Wuzhou Guest House in Shenzhen and attended by about 300 invited officials, guests and media.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Bankoff joined six other experts from China, America, Hong Kong, and Israel in presenting their views on how best to attract and support the necessary talent, infrastructure and policies to create an \u201cinnovation economy\u201d in this bay city next to Hong Kong that was the first of China\u2019s Special 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