The 8th Forum of Chinese Young Economists was held in XMU on September 20th. The forum is co-organized by the Economic Research Journal, the Peking University Guanghua School of Management, the Wuhan University Economic Research Centre and WISE. The forum was attended by young economists from universities and research centers from both home and abroad.
Dr. Zhu Chongshi, the President of XMU, and Dr. Wang Luolin, the Honorary Director of Wang Yanan Institute and Special Adviser to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, gave speeches at the opening ceremony. Dr. Liu Shucheng, the Director of the Economic Research Centre of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Dr. Zhang Weiying, the Director of Guanghua School of Management, were invited to deliver keynote speeches at the forum. 106 papers, covering many fields such as China’s economy, macro-economics, micro-economics, and finance, to name a few, were presented during the two-day forum.