From October 23 to 24, the 25th National Annual Conference on Regional Economics Discipline Development and the Symposium on the Development of Regional Economics in the Digital and Intelligent Era were held at Sichuan University. The event was jointly hosted by the Institute of Regional and Urban Economics at Renmin University of China, the Institute of Urban and Regional Economics at Nankai U...

On October 25, Professor Lu Bo, Executive Dean of the Institute of Intelligent Transportation at Dalian University of Technology, delivered an invited lecture in the CESD Distinguished Lecture Series. Professor Lu is a distinguished professor under a major national talent program, principal investigator of NSFC key projects, and chief expert of major National Social Science Fund and Ministry of...

To deepen the integration of artificial intelligence into teaching and research and strengthen faculty and students’ ability to use AI agents in office work, CESD partnered with Alibaba Cloud to hold a training session on  “Qianwen Office” for educational and research innovation on the morning of October 23, 2026. Organized by the Regional Economic Applications Laboratory, the two-and-a-half...

On October 22, Professor Sun Weizeng of the Joint Research Institute at Nanjing Audit University and Research Fellow Liu Xueliang of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences delivered invited lectures at the CESD Young Scholars Salon. Their respective presentations were entitled ‘The Challenge of Homogeneity in China’s Strategic Emerging Industries: The Role of Dig...

On October 18, 2026, the Sixth Symposium on Strategic Mineral Resource Industrial Chain Security and Management was held at Hebei GEO University. Invited participants from CESD included Professor Xiao Jianhua, Director of the Center for Modern Logistics Research and chief expert of a major National Social Science Fund project; Associate Professor Wu Xiaofan; Dr. Yu Hang; graduate student Zhang ...

CESD recently organized team-building activities for its first-year graduate students admitted in 2026. Associate Dean Professor Liu Weilin, International Exchange Office Director Zheng Ying, and all newly enrolled master’s and doctoral students took part.In his opening remarks, Associate Dean Liu Weilin noted that the students came from different parts of the country and brought varied person...

On October 16, 2026, Professor Peter Shi of Macquarie Business School, Australia, delivered an invited lecture at the CESD Young Scholars Salon entitled ‘From Cost Competition to Strategic Competition: A New Game in Global Critical Mineral Supply Chains.’ Professor Xiao Jianhua, Director of Nankai University’s Center for Modern Logistics Research, chaired the lecture. Attendees included Prof...

From October 16 to 18, 2026, the 29th Annual Meeting of the National Economic Geography Research Association and the National Social Science Fund-supported Symposium on Optimizing the Regional Economic Layout and Promoting Coordinated Regional Development were held in Shijiazhuang. Jointly hosted by the association and Hebei Normal University, the event brought together more than 300 leading ex...

The China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education and the China Professional Degree Case Center recently announced the completion results for the 2024 thematic case study projects. CESD’s project, ‘Digital and Intelligent Empowerment: How Can Tianjin Port Build a World-Class Smart and Green Port?,’ was successfully completed. Professor Xiao Jia...

On September 27, Nankai University hosted a symposium on strategies for expanding domestic demand and boosting consumption during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Leading experts and scholars from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Renmin University of China, Nankai University, Shandong University, and other universities and research institutions disc...