In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech on inspection of Jilin, showcase new deeds in accelerating the comprehensive and all-round revitalization of Jilin in the new era, and provide strong support for the high-quality economic development of Jilin Province, sponsored by the Science and Technology Association of Jilin Province and undertaken by NENU, “the High-end Forum for High-quality Economic Development of Jilin Province and the Academic Forum for Graduate Students” was held in NENU on July 3rd. Experts from more than ten universities and enterprises, such as Jilin University, Northeastern University, Heilongjiang University, Jilin Agricultural University, Jilin University of Finance and Economics, Bank of China Changchun Branch participated in this forum. The forum was presided over by Lu Kangyin, Dean of the School of Economics and Management. Fang Guozhong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Economics and Management delivered a welcome speech, and Zhao Hongliang, Director of the Service Center of the Jilin Province Association of Science and Technology delivered the opening speech.
The forum consists of expert theme reports, postgraduate thesis reports and thesis reviews. In the expert theme report, Professor Li Guoping, Dean of the Capital Development Research Institute of Peking University, gave a theme report on “China’s Regional Economic Spatial Restructuring Facing 2035”. In his report, Professor Li conducted in-depth analysis from the trend and changes of China’s regional economic spatial structure, and put forward relevant measures and suggestions for the reconstruction of China’s regional spatial structure. Experts and scholars from the Policy Research Office of the Jilin Provincial Government, the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northeastern University, Jilin University, Northeast Normal University and other units also used the theme of “the development optimization and kinetic energy cultivation of the northeast region in the new development stage” and “the cultural characteristics of the northeast region and regional economic development”, “several major issues in the construction of a new modern Jilin”, “population, employment, and economy in the northeast region” comprehensively analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of economy, culture, population, and location of the northeast region, and discussed the path and measures of high-quality development of economy of Jilin Province.
In order to further create an atmosphere of postgraduate academic innovation and improve the quality of postgraduate training, this forum set up postgraduate sub-forums. A total of 34 postgraduates theses were received. The postgraduates were divided into three sub-forums to report on the theses. Nine experts from the School of Economics and Management participated in the review, and a total of one first prize, three second prizes, six third prizes were selected. In the closing ceremony, the Party and government leaders of the School of Economics and Management and the leaders of the Service Center of the Jilin Province Association for Science and Technology presented certificates and bonuses to the award-winning graduate students.
This forum has attracted great attention of colleagues from other universities in Northeast China. Giving full play to the characteristics and advantages of the discipline and strengthening the construction of think tank platforms on the basis of grasping the needs of national and regional development, the School of Economics and Management of Northeast Normal University played a positive role in serving the high-quality economic development of Jilin Province and accelerating the comprehensive and all-round revitalization of Jilin Province in the new era.
(From News Center, translated by Wei Jia, revised by Liu Lixin)