On January 23, a signing ceremony for the cooperation agreement between Nankai University and Chongqing Gaund Holding Group was held at Nankai University. Liang Qi, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Nankai University, and Peng Jianhu, Chairman of the Board of Chongqing Gaund Holding Group, attended the ceremony. Liu Binglian, Dean of the college of Economics and Social Development at N...

On January 15, 2026, our college invited Assistant Professor Qiao Liang from the School of Economics of Nankai University to visit the "Nankai CESD Young Scholars Salon" and gave an academic lecture entitled "Introduction to Experimental Economics—Taking the Experimental Research on Congestion Information and Efficiency as an Example". The lecture was presided over by Associate Professor Liu Y...

On January 12, 2026, Professor Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), former Director of the Regional Economics Application Laboratory, and internationally renowned regional economist, was invited to visit our college for academic exchange and gave a special report. Professor Hewings has served as the Pres...

Recently, a delegation led by President Hong Junjie of Shandong University of Finance and Economics visited our college for special research. Professor Liu Binglian, Dean of our college, Professor Liu Weilin, Vice Dean, Professor Zhou Mi, Director of the China Urban and Regional Economic Research Center, Professor Zhang Gui, Secretary-General of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinated Development...

In accordance with the *Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Chinese-Foreign Cooperative Education* and its implementation measures, the Ministry of Education recently evaluated the Chinese-foreign cooperative education institutions and programs applied for in the second half of 2025. Based on the results of expert evaluation, the master's degree education program in "Smart City Man...

On December 19, 2025, our college invited Associate Professor Liu Kaihao from the School of Economics of Shandong University to visit the "Nankai CESD Young Scholars Salon" and gave an academic lecture entitled "Urban Network Embedding, Knowledge Boundaries and Export Product Scope—From the Perspective of Flow Space". The lecture was presided over by Professor Zhou Mi of our college, and Profe...

On December 12, 2025, our institute invited Professor Kannan Govindan from the University of Adelaide, Australia to visit the "Nankai CESD Academic Lecture Hall" and gave an academic lecture entitled "How to write a paper for publishing in top journals". The lecture was presided over by Professor Li Xiang from the Modern Logistics Research Center of our institute.Focusing on the core needs of p...

Recently, the College of Economic and Social Development successfully held the 3rd Badminton Tournament.The tournament included five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles, attracting more than 30 on-campus master's and doctoral students and alumni to actively participate, and staging 40 wonderful matches. Before the tournament, the players res...

From December 6 to 7, Nankai University successfully held the 24th National Annual Conference on Regional Economics Discipline Construction and the Academic Conference on "Constructing China's Independent Regional Economics Knowledge System Facing the Digital Intelligence Era". The National Annual Conference on Regional Economics Discipline Construction was co-initiated and hosted by three firs...

On December 6, 2025, Professor Sun Chuanwang, Distinguished Professor of Nanqiang at Xiamen University and Distinguished Professor of the Major Talent Program of the Ministry of Education, was invited to visit the "Nankai CESD Academic Lecture Hall" and gave an academic lecture entitled "Carbon Emission Trading System, Industrial Green Transformation and Its Externalities". The lecture was co-h...