The First International Economics Joint Conference Successfully Concluded!
Days ago, the First International Economics Joint Conference came to a successful conclusion in Shenzhen. Co-hosted by the School of Management and Economics (SME), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), and the HKU Business School Shenzhen Campus, the Conference attracted nearly 50 experts and scholars in economics at home and abroad, who focused on the challenges and opportunities facing the world economy and conducted in-depth discussions on important issues such as the impacts of trade policies, transnational technological exchanges and restrictions, trade and geopolitical conflicts, and international macroeconomic fluctuations to jointly explore the solutions to the complexity and uncertainty brought by globalization.
Wang Jian, SME professor and Associate Director of Shenzhen Finance Institute (SFI), and Heiwai Tang, Associate Dean (External Relations) of the HKU Business School, Director of the Asia Global Institute, and Victor and William Fung Professor in Economics, attended the Conference and delivered opening speeches. The two professors extended a warm welcome to the guests and noted that the two sides would further strengthen academic cooperation in the future and provide more exchange opportunities and platforms for experts and scholars.
Wang Jian, SME professor and SFI Associate Director, expected that everyone could take this opportunity to fully communicate, jointly contribute to solving the existing problems facing the world economy, and promote a more prosperous, balanced, and sustainable development of the world economy.
Heiwai Tang, Associate Dean (External Relations) of the HKU Business School, found such international conferences to be of great significance. “We hope to establish rational academic exchanges through the Conference and provide ideas and policy suggestions to better improve the global economic environment.”
Kim Ruhl, Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the United States, Maurizio Zanardi, Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey, the United Kingdom, and Carsten Eckel, Professor of Economics at the University of Munich, Germany, delivered keynote speeches.
