Recently, the Institute of Economics and Social Development held the 2025 Orientation Meeting for New Students. The leadership team of the institute, discipline heads, and several faculty representatives attended the event, which was chaired by Professor Bai Xuejie, Vice Dean of the institute.Dean Liu Binglian, on behalf of the institute, extended his warmest congratulations and welcome to the ...

Recently, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Academic Annual Conference was held in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The research team from the Modern Logistics Research Center of our institute was invited to attend and presented the English edition of theReport on the Development of Modern Logistics in China, edited by the center’s team and exclusively published worldwide by ...

On August 23, 2025, the Symposium on the Construction of  “Regional Innovation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region Oriented Toward Chinese-Style Modernization,” a key interdisciplinary project of Nankai University, was successfully held at the Balitai Campus. The meeting was chaired by the project leader,Professor Liu Binglian, Dean of the Institute of Economics and Social Development, and at...

Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) announced the review results for the 2025 general project applications, and three research projects from our institute have been awarded funding. These include one General Program project (Principal Investigator: Xiao Jianhua) and two Young Scientists Fund (Category C) projects (Principal Investigators: Guo Jiahong and Sun Pengbo...

On August 23, the Symposium on Industrial Innovation and Chinese-Style Modernization was held at Nankai University. More than 30 experts and scholars from institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Shandong University, Beijing Normal University, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Liaoning University, Huaqiao University, Hunan University ...

On August 17, the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Economic Geography Society of China’s Committee on the Coordinated Development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region and the Symposium on “New Features and New Directions of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinated Development during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period” were held at the Institute of Economics and Social Development, Nankai University.The confer...

To promote the deep integration of regional and industrial economics research with supercomputing technology, Professor Liu Binglian, Dean of our institute, led a delegation including Professor Liu Weilin, Vice Dean, and Professor Zhou Mi, Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Economic Research, to the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin for a special research visit and exchange.Th...

On July 19, 2025, Professor Zhang Honglin from the Department of Economics at Illinois State University (ISU) was invited to deliver a lecture at the “Nankai Institute of Economics and Development Academic Forum.” His talk, entitled “A Comparative Study of Industrial Policies in China and the United States and Reflections on Research,” was chaired by Professor Liu Weilin, Vice Dean of our i...

From July 12 to 13, 2025, the Third Forum on New Quality Productive Forces and Chinese-Style Modernization was held in Qingdao, jointly organized by the School of Economics at Shandong University, the Institute for New Quality Productive Forces at Tsinghua University, Qingdao University, and other institutions.The forum brought together more than one hundred renowned experts and scholars from t...

On July 14, 2025, our institute invited Dr. Zhiwu Wei, Research Fellow of the Leverhulme Trust at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, and the Cambridge Centre for Interdisciplinary Spatial Analysis, to deliver an academic lecture entitled “Mobile Internet Connectivity and Household Wealth in the Philippines.”The lecture was chaired by Professor Zhou Mi, with Professor Liu...