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...