On October 11, the 11th China Economic Growth and Development Young Scholars Forum and the 11th Rapid Review Session of Economic Review were successfully hosted by the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Co-organized by the School of Economics of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, the Editorial Department of Economic Review, and the Key Laboratory of Mathematical Economics (Ministry of Education) of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, the forum focused on new issues and challenges emerging in the new stage of China’s economic development, and carried out in-depth discussions on frontier topics including new-quality productive forces, artificial intelligence, labor markets, land systems and industrial policies. Experts, scholars and young researchers from universities, research institutes and academic journals across the country gathered to discuss practical paths and theoretical innovations for the high-quality development of China’s economy.
The opening ceremony of the forum was presided over by Chang Jinxiong, Vice Dean of the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Zhou Yahong, Dean of the School of Economics, and Professor Ye Chusheng, Editor-in-Chief of Economic Review, delivered speeches successively.
Dean Zhou Yahong stated that themed on "China’s Economic Growth and Development", this forum aims to build a high-level academic exchange platform for young scholars. He emphasized that the school will continue to support innovative research by young scholars, encouraging them to ground their work in China’s realities and conduct valuable, human-centered economic research, so as to contribute insights to advancing theoretical innovation in Chinese economics.
Editor-in-Chief Ye Chusheng reviewed the forum’s development over past years, noting its nationwide reach and its role in witnessing the growth of young scholars. He added that future collaboration with universities will continue to nurture emerging talent in economics and facilitate the modernization and internationalization of China’s economic research.
The keynote session was presided over by Professor Zhang Zhengyu, Chair of the Econometrics Department of the School of Economics.
Professor Zhu Pingfang, Director of the Quantitative Economics Research Center at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech titled Flexibility of the Gig Economy and Labor Supply: Evidence from Micro Big Data of the Ride-Hailing Market. He conducted an in-depth analysis of ride-hailing drivers’ labor supply behavior and offered new perspectives for theoretical construction and policy design concerning the gig economy.
Professor Zhou Yahong, Dean of the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, presented the paper titled Does Dual-Economic Transition Eliminate Hukou Discrimination in China’s Labor Market? A High-Dimensional Factor Model with Sample Selection. Based on refined high-dimensional decomposition models, he carried out analysis from a more comprehensive distributional perspective, delivering important implications for understanding structural changes in the labor market during the transition period.
Professor Wang Linhui, Deputy Director of the Quantitative Economics Research Center at Jilin University, presented Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market, systematically illustrating the impact mechanism of artificial intelligence on changes in occupational structure as well as its economic and social effects.
Professor Li Nan from the School of Economics, Fudan University, reported on Land Markets and Land Right Transactions in Border Regions of Pre-Modern China: Evidence from the Tumed Area in the Qing Dynasty. Drawing on abundant historical documents and fieldwork materials, she uncovered the institutional logic and practical implications of traditional land-right transactions in China.
Paper presentations and discussions were arranged across four parallel sessions. Selected authors reported their research progress on topics including heterogeneous technology measurement, cross-regional cooperation and data factors, backward production capacity and industrial involution, incentives from value-added tax sharing, artificial intelligence and labor markets, data factors and economic growth, involution-style competition among firms, demand-side innovation policies, ecological compensation and corporate green innovation, credit allocation and involution competition, trade credit supply, national standards and specialization. Each paper received dedicated discussions. Senior editors from journals such as The Journal of World Economy, Journal of Finance and Economics, Academic Monthly, Nankai Economic Studies and Journal of Sun Yat-sen University, together with invited university discussants, provided thorough professional comments covering research questions, logical frameworks, methodologies, academic contributions and policy relevance. In-depth exchanges took place throughout the session within a vibrant academic atmosphere.
At the closing ceremony of the forum, Professor Luo Qi, Associate Editor of Economic Review, announced the list of award-winning excellent papers.
Editor-in-Chief Ye Chusheng and Professor Zhang Zhengyu jointly presented awards to the winning authors. Multiple outstanding papers were selected for this forum, covering research fields such as new-quality productive forces, artificial intelligence, green innovation and institutional governance, demonstrating young scholars’ solid research capacity and sharp awareness of real-world issues.
Upholding the mission of "writing papers on the land of the motherland", the 11th China Economic Growth and Development Young Scholars Forum has established a high-level academic exchange platform for young economists nationwide. It promotes the indigenization, standardization and internationalization of Chinese economic research and contributes youthful wisdom and academic strength to advancing Chinese-style modernization.
