Programme Calendar

18 Apr 2026, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM (GMT+8:00)
Market Plaza

After more than four decades of reform and opening-up, a profound question emerges at this moment of wealth accumulation: Where should wealth ultimately go?

This panel will focus on “Wealth for Good” and “New Philanthropy.” Drawing on the “Wealth for Well-being Initiative” (W² Initiative) launched by the Institute for Philanthropy, Tsinghua University, we will explore together how to move beyond the pursuit of wealth accumulation toward sustainable social value creation and the transmission of values across generations. We will share the latest insights from the Wealth for Well-being framework, present a collaborative action blueprint co-created by entrepreneurs and scholars, and discuss the evolution from Philanthropy 1.0 to Philanthropy 4.0.

18 Apr 2026, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM (GMT+8:00)
SANGHA Movement Center

At a time when the future feels increasingly uncertain, the question is no longer how we prepare the next generation for existing systems, but how we enable them to reimagine and regenerate the systems themselves.

This lab explores the intersection of youth education, food systems, and human wellbeing not as separate domains, but as deeply interconnected foundations of a life-centred economy.

If education shapes how we see the world, food systems shape how we relate to nature, and well-being shapes how we show up as human beings, then the future we are building depends on how these three evolve together.

This session invites participants to move beyond fragmented interventions and ask:

How do we cultivate a generation that can think in systems, act with responsibility, and build futures where both people and planet can flourish?

19 Apr 2026, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (GMT+8:00)
Town Hall

As traditional education and public health systems remain constrained by industrial-age models of standardisation—treating learning as a unidirectional transfer of facts and care as mere reactive intervention—these fragmented approaches struggle to address the profound shifts of the AI era and global demographic transitions. In response, there is an urgent need to embrace the Eastern epistemology of Gewu Zhizhi (Investigating Things to Extend Knowledge), shifting the logic of social infrastructure from functional maintenance toward systemic awakening.

This session explores a profound transformation centred on “Holistic Prosperity”. We examine how education can return to its essence—moving beyond simple knowledge acquisition to the cultivation of mind, character, and systemic thinking. Simultaneously, we explore how well-being systems can evolve from passive cost burdens into lifelong fountains of vitality. As a frontline laboratory for digital integration and demographic change, China is demonstrating a modern transformation rooted in the classical ideals of “Self-cultivation, Family Harmony, State Governance, and Universal Peace”. We shall observe how digital innovation, inclusive institutions, and social capital converge to establish the comprehensive development of the individual as the very foundation of future civilisational resilience.

19 Apr 2026, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (GMT+8:00)
Town Hall

Having explored the civilisational depth and practical pathways of a Well-being Economy, we arrive at the confluence of our journey. In an era defined by geopolitical fragmentation and compounding challenges, no single civilisation or economy can thrive in isolation. The traditional logic of ‘zero-sum games’ has reached its limit, depleting our natural resources while fracturing the essential connections of human civilisation. We face an inescapable truth: humanity is not a collection of separate islands, but a deeply coupled and singular living community with a shared destiny.

This closing dialogue seeks to reshape the fundamental consensus across Eastern and Western boundaries. Systemic challenges demand a civilisational awakening. To transcend barriers and divisions, we must move beyond short-term calculations, establishing ‘Love as Infrastructure’—the ultimate foundation for global governance and transnational collaboration. By gathering leading thinkers and practitioners, we explore how to seamlessly align China’s experience as a ‘Regenerative Laboratory’ with the collective aspirations of humanity. This is more than a search for cross-sector solutions; it is a collective effort to author the next chapter of human civilisation—returning capital to the service of life and ensuring ‘Love’ becomes the very fabric of our institutional and economic systems.