Notice

The Third International Conference on

Population and Development of Asian Developing Countries (ACPD)

Call for Paper

Theme: Population Development and Public Governance

Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

June 19, 2021

Since the first and second international conferences on Population and Development of Asian Developing Countries (ACPD) was held in Kunming in 2018 and in Hangzhou in 2019, the third conference will be held on June 19, 2021 in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. The theme of this year’s conference is “Population Development and Public Governance”. Now, we are recruiting participants who are interested in attending this conference.

This conference is aimed to promote academic exchanges among scholars from developing countries in Asia in the field of population and development. Taking Population Development and Public Governance as the main theme of the conference, we can promote the research on population and development in Asian Developing countries through the exchange of academic views and the display of academic achievements, and further promote the balanced development of population in Asia. Complying with the broader thematic areas the content of the conference will cover a number of issues like fertility, mortality, health, ageing, marriage, family, morbidity, poverty, migration, gender, sex ratio, public policy, governance, social security and health care, etc.

Overseas representatives will attend the conference online and domestic representatives will attend the conference offline in Nanjing. The meeting will be conducted online and offline at the same time. The language used can be both English and Chinese, and English-Chinese simultaneous interpretation will be provided on site.

China Population and Development Research Center, Institute of Population Research of Peking University, United Nation Population Fund, Netinsearch International-Network for Integrative Research in Bangladesh and the Department of Population Sciences of University of Dhaka jointly host the conference. Nanjing Population International Training Center of National Health Commission will be the organizer of the conference. The conference is co-organized by College of Science and the Institute of population studies, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

For the scholars who intend to attend this conference, please submit an abstract within 500 words in English if you intend to present a paper at the online meeting. The abstract should include title, research problems or hypothesis, data and methods, and tentative conclusions. Please send the abstract to the conference mailbox (acpd2021@163.com). The submissions deadline is May 25, 2021. The acceptance will be notified by June 5, 2021. Some excellent papers will be chosen to be published after the conference.

The participants, whose abstracts are accepted and who are out of China now, are unable to be invited to come to China, and they will be invited to present their papers through Zoom online. There is no registration fee for the conference.

Organizing Committee

April 30, 2021