The 4th China International Conference on Insurance and Risk Management will be held from July 17th (Wednesday) to July 20th (Saturday), 2013 at the Expo Garden Hotel, Kunming, in China's Yunnan province. The conference is organized by Tsinghua University’s China Center for Insurance and Risk Management (CCIRM) and the Cass Business School of City University, London, and jointly organized by Yunnan University of Finance and Economics. Detailed information is available at the conference website: http://www.ccirm.org/conference/2013. The 2013 CICIRM follows upon the successful meeting held in Qingdao (July 2012), which launched an annual forum in China for international communication and cooperation in the studies of insurance, risk management, and actuarial science. CICIRM attendees will have the opportunity to hear from distinguished speakers, present recent academic and practical research in concurrent sessions, and exchange ideas with leading international researchers.