Recently, EDGE 2025, the annual conference of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)—the world's largest and oldest professional association for supply chain management—was grandly held at National Harbor, Washington D.C. The conference gathered industry leaders, scholars, and enterprise representatives from more than 100 countries around the world, and is the most influential international event in the field of global logistics and supply chain management. It has long played an important role in promoting the theoretical innovation and industrial development of the global supply chain.
A delegation from the Modern Logistics Research Center of our college, including Professor Liu Binglian, Associate Professor Jiao Zhilun, and Associate Professor Wu Xiaofan, was invited to attend this conference. This is also the first time that the Nankai Logistics Center has returned to this international high-end logistics exchange platform after the pandemic, marking the full recovery and in-depth cooperation of the center in international exchanges and cooperation.
During the conference, in addition to participating in the plenary session and thematic discussions, the logistics center team also held two important meetings, conducting in-depth exchanges with Mr. Mark Baxa, President and Chief Executive Officer of CSCMP, and Mr. John Delgado, Member of the CSCMP Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of FreightPath, a well-known logistics technology enterprise. During the meetings, the two parties focused on discussing the application prospects of artificial intelligence in the logistics field, the joint talent training model of the industry, and other issues of common concern, and reached a preliminary consensus on strengthening cooperation between China and the United States in supply chain education and technological innovation. Professor Liu Binglian introduced the *China Modern Logistics Development Report* (English version) compiled by the Nankai team to the other party, taking this opportunity to clarify to international counterparts the policy orientation and development practice of China's logistics industry in continuously expanding opening-up and deepening international cooperation.
Since first being invited to attend the CSCMP Philadelphia Annual Conference and release the English version of the report in 2011, the Modern Logistics Research Center of Nankai University has hosted the China Logistics Development Sub-forum many times, speaking on this international platform, and has gradually become an important window for the international community to systematically understand the development and policy trends of China's logistics industry. In recent years, the Modern Logistics Research Center of Nankai University has continuously strengthened the international orientation of discipline construction, and actively expanded exchanges and cooperation with international counterparts in various aspects such as academic conferences, visiting scholars, cooperative scientific research, and talent training. In the future, the center will continue to play the role of an academic bridge and a think tank platform, contributing Nankai wisdom and Chinese solutions to promoting the steady development of China-US and even global logistics and supply chains.
