The 14th China Economics Annual Conference was held at Peking University HSBC Business School, December 13-14. Senior economics experts and scholars from all over the country discussed theory and policy issues on the topic of “The New Normal for China’s Economy: Reform and Innovation.” The 600 participants chose from 25 focus areas for discussion in sessions including microeconomics, macroeconomics, institutional economics, national economics, environment economics, health economics and financial economics.



This year’s invitees included economists from Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Nankai University, Beijing Normal University, University of International Business and Economics, Peking University Guanghua School of Management, School of Economics of Peking University, Beihang University, and the National School of Development at Peking University.  More than 700 papers were submitted, and 293 were selected. There were 235 papers in Chinese and 58 papers in English. 



The conference included several workshops, such as “Women Economics Scholars,” “China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS),” and “Family Financial Behavior.” The conference also featured a joint meeting of deans and directors of schools of economics, as well as an economics book fair themed, “Economics Education in China’s New Economy.” Further, this year’s conference held two special meetings and a training for CHARLS data users to support paper presentation skills.



In order to make full use of the academic community function of the annual conference, there was a job fair to help meet the demand for matching universities with talented economics faculty. About 20 universities and research institutions participated, offering more than 100 jobs. These included Huazhong University, Qing Dao University, Shanghai University and Synergy Innovation Center for Trading of Rights of Carbon Emissions.





Again this year, the Chinese Women Economics Scholars Association sponsored its Lunch for Women Economists. Organizers introduced the association’s mission and activities, including upcoming events in cooperation with the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) and the Canadian Women Economists Network (CWEN).



The China Economics Annual Conference was founded by the former Peking University China Center for Economic Research (CCER). The annual conference is aimed at strengthening communication and cooperation between schools of economics in Chinese universities and economics institutions abroad. Its mission is to build an open, interactive platform for faculty and students to promote academic research and teaching Chinese economics, as well as to contribute to China’s economic reform and development.





The influence of the annual conference is growing. Every year more than 600 scholars from a variety of colleges and research institutions at home and abroad who focus on China’s economic issues participate in the conference. For further information, visit the official website of the China Economics Annual Conference-- China Economics Education and Scientific Research Website (CENET).

By Shen Xiaochun                    Translated by Deng Lu