Breakfast talk from author Matthew Crabbe

 

Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines Will Change a Nation 

China is getting fatter…fast

The European Chamber of Commerce in China is delighted to invite you to have author Matthew Crabbe present the book - Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines Will Change a Nation

From a situation 20 years ago when diets were limited by food availability, and famine was still a recent memory, China’s urban centres have seen alarmingly rising rates of obesity:

· Across China 7.1% percent of adults are obese and 22.8% (more than one fifth) were overweight
· Throughout the country an estimated 200 million people out of a total population of around 1.3 billion were overweight (over 15%).
· This rate rises to nearly 20% in China’s major cities
· In the past decade, the number of Chinese defined as overweight increased 39%, and the number deemed clinically obese by 97%

China’s economy has boomed, but a potentially disastrous side effect, along with pollution and a growing income gap between urban and rural regions, is the effect obesity will have on the country’s fragile healthcare system. Today’s fat kids in China can look to a mixed future of bright economic hopes for their country, and poor and deteriorating health for themselves.         

 

About the Speaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew Crabbe

Having studied Chinese language, society and history at the University of Leeds, Matthew Crabbe has since turned an academic interest in China into a career. As co-founder of research company Access Asia, Matthew has worked exhaustively on trying to make sense of the myriad contradictions in China's economics and statistics on the consumer markets there.

Crabbe takes a particular interested in the human story behind the rapid growth in China's economy, and how such breakneck change ishaving an effect on its people, their lifestyles, society andcommunities. Having travelled to China regularly since the late 1980s, Crabbe has seen this change first hand, and has attempted to document these changes within his research work with Access Asia.

As well co-authoring the 1998 book One Billion Shoppers: Accessing Asia’s Consuming Passions (Nicholas Brealey Publishing) with Paul French, Crabbe has written published reports on Women in China: Women Consumers and Lifestyle Trends (2007, Access Asia) and Kids in China: Children Consumers and Lifestyle Trends (2007, Access Asia).

 

 

 

Agenda

08:00 - 08:30 --- Registration & Breakfast
08:30 - 08:35 --- Introduction from EUCCC
08:35 - 09:15 --- Presentation from Matthew Crabbe
09:15 - 09:45 --- Q+A
09:45 onwards --  Networking

Event Terms & Conditions

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